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BENDS

Lapp knot
KNOT SCORE
Although this looks like a temporary knot, Laplanders apparently use it to Strength
tie lanyards onto their knives and hitch their reindeer to sledges. Its main Security
advantage is that it can be slipped with one tug of the drawloop, and the Diffi culty Tying
Diffi culty Untying
line can be pulled free without any further effort. Use it to attach a line
Usefulness
that might need to be released at short notice – and not just reindeer.

1 Put a bight in the end of one of 2 Put a bight in the working end of 3 ... and through the fi rst bight.
the lines, and pass the end of the the second line, and pass it over its Allow enough line to create a
other line under it. standing part... generous loop and long tail.

4 Tighten the knot by pulling on
both parts of the fi rst line, and the
standing part of the second line.