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slipping (cont.) T'ang Dynasty, 103
Fisherman's Knot, 200 tabby (basket) weave, 347
Granny Knot, 200 Taber, H., 279
Overhand Bends, 200 table
Reef Knot, 200 of 10-crossing knots, 275
Ring Bend, 200 of n-fold knottiness, 237
Sheetbend knots, 200 Tait's Scheme-method, 220
Spain, 353 Tait, P. G., 205, 216, 219, 275, 315
Spanish conquerors, 73 tambour, 320
Spanish Inquisition, 356 tamboured laces, 352
speculations on knots, 19 tame knot, 235
spidermen, 176 tangle categories, 251
Spinning Jenny, 370 tangle generators, 250
Spinning Mule, 370 tangles, 235
splices, 138, 181 tape-lace, 376
splicing, 141 taphonomy, 4
Sprang, 347 tassels, 385
square knotting, 336, 338 Ecclesiastic, 389
standing end, 23 tatting, 348, 351, 365, 373, 375
standing part, 23 Queen Anne, 365
standing part, distal, 23 temperatures, sub-zero, 32
proximal, 23 temples, 43
subterminal, 23 tensile force, 183
standing-end, 278 tensile forces, 181
Staple, wool-marketing, 356 tension, 181
statistical mechanics, 249, 250 Terra Incognita, 246
Stone Age, 21 textile-fragments, 32
stone-age Europe, 33 The Last Supper, 337
stopper knot, 49 theory of braiding, 263
stopper knots, 27 Thistlethwaite, M. B., 237
stretch-load modulus, 196 Thompson, W., 219
string thongs, 3
goat hair, 54 Thule Inuit knots, 113
papyrus, 49 toile, 347
string run, 281 Toltecs, 353
structural complexity, 91 tombs, 43, 44
Sulawesi, 14 Chinese, 104
sumptuary laws, 347, 368 lace, 347
Sunflower, 104 paintings, 48
supporters, C15th, 386 top cords, 77, 81
swamps, 31 topological
synthetic fibres, 195 invariants, 224