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Begin by laying the two lines alongside each other, but facing in opposite

directions. Then tie a thumb knot (see page 171) with one end around the
standing part of the other rope. Now reverse the lines and tie an identical
thumb knot with the other end, enclosing its nearby standing part (figure
66). The two knots can now be pulled together to form the fisherman’s
knot.

Flat seizing: form an eye in the rope to the required size and then sew
the rope together with twine, making three or four stitches at the same
place but leaving about twice the thickness of the rope between the

length of the stitches. Take round turns around the joined ropes until the
length of the stitches is covered. Now take the needle through the eye
and make three cross-turns around the entire length of the round turns
and pull the whole seizing tight. Use the remaining twine to sew round
the cross-turns and through the rope before trimming off.

figure 67.1

Flemish eye: a variation on the eye splice, made in the end of a rope.

Begin by carefully unlaying just one strand from the end of the rope, and
form a bight in this single strand. At the point of the extremity of the
required eye, relay the single strand into the vacant lay (figure 67.1) and
work it carefully back towards the throat of the eye. Now take the
remaining double strand and wrap this continuously around the single
strand which currently forms one half of the eye, using the single strand

to fill the vacant lay until the double strand also reaches the throat of the