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MULTI-STRAND LANYARD KNOTS

()f one strand around the structure as piCtured, and tie them together

with a LEFT HALF KNOT. Rotate the structure, doing the same in

pairs with the other ends. Then tuck each upper end under the next

strand to the right. Repeat until all strands of that end have been

tucked four times. Turn the structure upside down, and tuck each '757

of the opposing ends to the right three times in exactly the same

way. All ends having been tucked four times, draw up the knot,

removing the core, and lay the ends up into a sinnet.

753. These diagrams illustrate the difference in cycles of the sev-

eral knots that are under discussion. Number 753 is the MATTHEW

WALKER KNOT. It is an imaginary profile of two strands that have

made a complete circuit within the knot.

754. This shows the cycle of ~745 and also of ~752. In three

dimensions the two strands interlock.

755. The DIAMOND KNOT of the last chapter and also ~748 of this

;hapter conform to the profile at the left. The right side is ~734

and ~736 of this chapter.

756. The FOOTROPE KNOT, which has been discussed in both the

last chapter and in the present one, is shown here.

The illustrations on this page represent SINNET KNOTS, which

differ from LANYARD and STOPPER KNOTS in that the strand ends

are left free, being neither whipped nor laid up. SINNET KNOTS are

designed to grip the several strands so finnly that they may be sepa-

rately employed, as in bag lanyards, cat-o'-nine-tails, and key guards.

757. The DIAMOND SINNET KNOT is the one most often seen. The

SINNET KNOT was both named and pictured by E. N. Smith in Log

Book Notes (1888). Generally the knot is tied in bag lanyards with

either six or eight strands; occasionally they have ten and seldom

twelve. Ditty-bag lanyards are sometimes tied with as few as four

strands. Nine strands are required when the knot is tied in a "cat."

Usually each strand makes a complete circuit of the knot, and the

end is tucked under its own bight as illustrated.

758. Captain Charles W. Smith's SINNET KNOT is tied in the man-

ner illustrated here. Each strand of his ditty-bag lanyard was passed

around the second strand to the right. His clothesbag (which serves

an officer as laundry bag) had ei ht legs in the lanyard. Each leg

passed to the right over four stran s and then rounded the fifth. '760

759. Captain Albert Whitney first crowned the legs and then

tucked them up to the center reversely as pictured, to make his

SINNET KNOT.

760. The LINK SINNET KNOT is crowned to the right and then

walled to the left. Double the knot by tucking the ends above to the

right and parallel with the crown. Continue to follow each lead out-

side its periphery, and finall tuck the ends up to the center as illus-

trated by the arrow in the rst diagram.

761. Another SINNET KNOT. Seize a number of strands, and stop

the ends to the stem. Pass any strand to the right, over the next

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strand and under or behind the standing part of the second strand,

tucking it up to the left of the working end of the same strand (the

second). Move each strand in turn in a like manner.

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