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Applying the theory…

#1439 Carrick bend (transformed into its corresponding eye knot) was not identified by
Clifford Ashley (in 1944).

This author has found the ‘nipping loop’ to be seized and non-functional. It therefore does
not freely increase/decrease the compression force in direct proportion to the applied load.
The carrick mat structure tends to inhibit the free operation of the nipping loop. But is this
fact sufficient to disqualify the structure as being a ‘Bowline’?

? SPart Note:
The collar forms around the ongoing eye
leg – like an Anti-Bowline.
1. The ‘entry leg’ of the collar does not
enter the nipping loop
2. Only the ‘exiting leg’ of the collar
feeds into the nipping loop.

1

Tail
2

#1439 Carrick bend
tied as an eye knot Ongoing
eye leg
Returning The collar forms
around the
eye leg ongoing eye leg.



Transformed
(by pulling on
the returning
eye leg)

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