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THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS
794~. ROUND SINNET in shott sections may be tied in a two-cord
lanyard by utilizing a loop to provide two additional strands for
the length of the knot.
Arrange the cord as in the upper left diagram, and then plat as
FOUR-STRAND ROUND or SQUARE SINNET, which is the same thing.
The outer strands of either side are moved alternately. A strand is
led around the back, then forward and down across the front of the
lower of the two opposing strands, and finally down to the lower
position of its own side. If the method is not familiar it will probably
be easier to learn with four free strands (~2999). When the knot is
of sufficient length, finish it off as in the two lower diagrams.
795. A LANYARD KNOT, made from two interlocked OVERHAND
KNOTS. When completed, this turns out to be a TWO-STRAND MAT-
THEW WALKER KNOT.
796. A TURKISH LANYARD KNOT. Although the knot is tied with
four strands, a section of the lanyard itself is made of the four ends
of but two strands, which are doubled back on themselves at the
knot.
The knot was tied in silk-wound silver wire and was found on
a string of black amber beads that were shown to me by Mrs. George
P. Gardner.
Ohrvall depicts the knot used architecturally in a Turkish stone
column.
797. A knot of two strands with six diagonal leads. Take a round
stick of wood about an inch or more in diameter and six or more
inches long. Drive four equally spaced tacks around the top edge
and a parallel row four or more inches below. Middle and knot or
seize a loop six inches long into the doubled end of a piece of band-
ing. Place the loop end across the end of the stick, to the left of
two opposite tacks, and lead the two working ends in a tight helix
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to the bottom of the stick, and there round two opposite tacks.
Leave one end for a while, and tuck the other end in a right upward
diagonal to the top underneath any even number of strands (in this
case six) and round an empty tack at the top. Lead the other end
over all to the top, parallel with the last laid end, and around the
remaining tack. Tuck each end downward in a right diagonal, alter-
nately over and under (or under and over), to the bottom.
Remove all tacks, and slip the knot from the stick, ready to draw
97 up. Although there are six strands in the knot, four are in one diag-
onal and only two in the other. The number of crossings in the two
sets of diagonals is, of course, the same. There will be a slight tend-
ency to twist, but if the knot is worked gradually, this is easil over-
come. A cross section of the knot is oblong, and it may be di erendy
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