Page 201 - Adlard Coles "The Knot Bible"

Wall knot
KNOT SCORE
The wall knot is basically an upside-down crown knot (page 198). But Strength
whereas the crown leads the strands back to the line’s standing part, the Security
wall knot leaves them pointing in the original direction. This means the line Diffi culty Tying
Diffi culty Untying
can be reconstituted to form a knot ‘in the bight’. The wall and crown are
Usefulness
often combined to make a larger stopper, known as the manrope knot.

1 Prepare the line as before (page 2 Pass the ends under the standing 3 When the last strand is reached,
198, step 1), or tie four lengths of part of its neighbour, working in a pass the end through the loop
thin line together with a whipping clockwise direction. formed by the standing part of the
and a seizing, as shown. The same fi rst strand.
principles apply for three strands.

4 Pull the strands to take out 5 Tighten the knot.
any slack, and you should see a
helicoidal form following the lay
of the line.

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