Page 367 - The Ashley Book of Knots

THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS

will be a sufficient number, but if the neck is large in proportion to

the knot, as in a cane-head covering, six or even eight bights may on

occasion be required.

If a knob or other covering is to be tied regularly with one cord,

it is limited to a one-cycle diagram. If it has two or more cycles it

must either be tied as a MULTI-STRAND KNOT or else it can be tied

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irregularly with one cord, no matter how many cycles it has, pro-

viding one cycle is completed at a time and the conI thereafter is

deflected to another cycle as in the MONKEY'S FIST, per se.

It may be well to repeat that the success of any elaborate knot

depends largely on gradual and unhurried working. Do not at any

time pull one part enough to distort the knot materially. Work from

end to end, and finally pull the ends very tight and cut them off

flush with the surface. They should shrink enough so that they will

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Read the Note concerning #2218. The apparent flaw in this knot

occurs between intersections 37 & 38. When doubled, it will be covered

by the square of crossings 1-45-82-8.

2220. The four knots last shown were based on two square figures

at opposite sides of the sphere.

Read the Note concerning # 22 18. The irregularity in this knot

occurs between 10 & 1 I. It is camouflaged by square 1-21-26-15.

When tied and drawn together, the rims of these knots close and

the bottom half of each knot will be found to be exactly a duplicatt

of the top half but slued to a different angle.

The present knot is similarly based on two figures, one

at the top and one at the bottom. Except for 2216, this is the

smallest spherical covering to be given.

2221. The knot alongside is the result of an attempt to follow the

general pattern of a tennis-ball cover. It is somewhat flattened at

the poles and is perhaps the least satisfactory of the series, as it tends

to bulk considerably at the four places on the diagram where two

triangular compartments have a common side.

2222. This knot was made to cover a cane head for Robert Cush-

man Murphy. The stick was of considerable diameter so that a four-

part rim was insufficient to close evenly at the edges. So six rim

partS' were tried and found to serve well.

2223. A heavy stick, with a shallow knob having very little over-

hang, will require even more rim parts.

Read the Note concerning # 22 18. The irregularity in this knot

occurs between 19 & 20, and is resolved by square 1-33-38-25.

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KNOT, knobs of a variety of shapes may be covered .

To tie: Select a crown from the diagrams given below ('/I< 2 2 24-3 I )

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• of approximately the shape of the cross section wanted. Middle the

strands and stop them twice to the end of your stick as illustrated

-- in left top diagram. Arrange them evenly around the stick in a right

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- diagonal of forty-five degrees, and crown the upper ends in the

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.... form of the diagram selected .

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-- Take one of the lower ends, cross it over the next strand to the

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left, and under the second strand. Take each one of the remaining

, .. lower strands in turn, and tuck it to the left over one and under one.
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Take one of the upper strands and tuck it downward to the right,

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