Page 66 - Eric C. Fry - Knots and Ropework

37 One strand is carefully unlaid and the whole offered up, with the
strands crossing at the extremity of the required eye, Fig 1.
FlemishEye Care must be taken to ensure that the single strand marries into
the vacant lay of the other two, after which it is continuously
passed down through the eye filling the vacant lay until it reaches
the throat of the eye, Figs 2 and 3. Similarly the double strand is
continuously passed up through the eye, being wrapped around
the single strand, again filling the vacant lay, until it also reaches
the throat of the eye, Fig 4.
The three strands having again met, the single strand is laid back
in its original position, to form the tail end (Figs 5 and 6). which
is then firmly seized to the standing part.

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