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THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS

789. To conceal the ends of strands in a lanyard: This may be

done by looping the right end back, seizing the two ends and the

bight together strongly at the point where the knot is to be tied, and

then making a THREE-LEAD, FOUR-BIGHT TURK's-HEAD around the

structure with the right end. The start for this is shown just below

diagrams of '#790. When this point has been reached, turn the struc·

ture end for end and with the same end plat as '# 1316 until the ene.

has been tucked twice; finally, stick the end as in the upper diagram,

which completes a single knot. If an irregularity is met while tucking

the second end, pass over the first end.

To double this knot, tuck the hitherto inactive end from under-

neath up through one of the center compartments and double the

knot with it, laying it parallel with the first knot. The last tuck after

the knot is completely doubled ~hould be thrust underneath all to

the rim. Draw up and cut the ends short.

An alternative treatment that will give practically the same effect
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is to seize the parts very firmly and cut them off. Then tie a

RUNNING TURK'S-HEAD ('# 1305) over the juncture with a piece of

the same sort of material. This may be doubled or trebled if wished.

790. To tie a FOUR-LEAD DIAMOND KNOT of any length with two

,89 strands only: Take a short section of mailing tube (the tube from a

toilet-paper roll will do), and stick four pins equidistant around each

end.

Double an eight- or nine-foot piece of banding, and tie an OVER-

HAND KNOT in it to make a loop at the center about six or seven

inches long. Drop the loop down through the tube, leaving the two

ends at the top. Lay the ends out opposite each other, and lead them

around two pins in a right diagonal of forty-five degrees downward

and parallel with each other. Round a pin with each end, and lea"

them upward in a right diagonal. When the top is reached, round

the two empty pins that remain, and lead the cords downward in

a right diagonal to the two empty pins at the bottom. Round these

and tuck each strand up to the nght, under the first opposite diagonal

encountered. Then work one end at a time and stick it over, under,

over, under, etc., to the top. The last tuck will be under the bight

of the initial lead. Remove pins, draw the knot off at the top, guard

against torsion, and work taut very gradually. '

791. This knot, which superficially resembles '#737, is tied by

791 bringing the two cords of the lanyard up through the hole in the

cork board and laying first the end marked A and then B along the

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