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Double Chain Twist
Take two bigbts in a rope. one in
each hand, so that it forms a letter
"M," the end ("A") dangling at the
left, the standing part ("B") at the
right (fig. 1). nu~n cross the right-
hand bight in front of the left to form
a loop.
This gives you three strands of rope
which may be termed "X," "Y," and
"Z" from left to right (fig. 2). Starting A
downward from the crossing, bring
"X" over in front of "Y," "Z" over in
front of "X," "Y" over in front of
"Z," and so on, moving the strands in B
lefHight, left-right order (fig. 3).
As you do this, keep drawing end fig. 1
.. A" completely through the loop,
otherwise it will become snarled from
the cnntinl1~d twisting. At the bot-
tom, end "A" goes through the loop
automatically (fig. 3). By drawing on
ends "A" and "8" the double chain is
tightened..
Due to the twisting process, the
knots formed in this type of shorten-
ing are sometimes termed "T wise
Knots."

A

B
x

fig. 2