Page 33 - Maria Constantino "The Knot Handbook"

C> COMMON WHIPPil'~G
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0 his method of whipping is quick to do but it is also the one most likely to con1e
u T undone. Wrapping turns around the rope are made in the opposite direction to the lay of
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z the rope: as the rope tries to unlay, the whipping becomes tighter.
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C> NOTE
z For demonstration
a. purposes, thicker cord
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than is usually used
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~ for whipping has
been used here.

Make a long bight in the whipping twine and Wrap the working end of the whipping
I lay it along the rope. 2 twine around the rope, trapping both legs of
the bight with the first turn.

Continue to wrap tightly
3 and evenly towards the end
of the rope. Continue until the
whipping is as long as the rope
is wide.