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825. A belt in wearing apparel is often knotted, and the flat knot

shown here may be tied to furnish a means of buckling. The loop

825" 82.6 at the end of the knot is seized in with silk or other thread (]1jf 2792).

826. A similar knot, terminating in a button, is tied reversel at

the other end. The illustration also shows the knot tied as a rog.

but in a belt the knot is merely the final one of the series, and the

loop shown here at the bottom of the knot is really the continuation

of the two cords of the lany.ard. The TERMINAL KNOT shown at the

top right is TWO-STRAND BUTION ]1jf980.

827. A wider knot for the end of a belt is depicted here. The belt

is started with this knot and is finished off with a similar one bear-

827 ing BUTl'ON ]1jf980 on its end. The first knot and the final knot are

each the reverse of the other. Knots of this width are made and

826 lengthened as described for ]1jf 830.

828. This knot is similar to KNOTS ]1jf825 and ]1jf826 but is shorter.

having one less crossing on each side. It may be lengthened by ex-

tending the loops and platting as illustrated below.

829. Knots similar to ]1jf825 and ]1jf826, and any prolongation of the

same form, may be platted directly without first tying a knot. Make

a right-hand coil of three turns and arrange as in the left diagram.

then plat as in FRENCH SINNET ]1jf 2977, bringing strands alternately

from either side and tucking them alternately over one and under

one. A knot is completed every time the two ends have been

brought down to the lower corners. Similar knots of greater width

may be tied in this way with the two ends and a larger number of

turns (or loops).

To tie all possible knots of this particular width it is necessary

to utilize another start, which has been shown as ]1jf828.

830. Wider knots similar to the PROLONG KNOT and OCEAN PLAT

may be made with ten, fourteen, or more leads if wished.

8;0 Four starts are required to exhaust the possibilities of this par-

ticular width knot. Each has five crossings along the top edge. The

four starts have respectively two, three, four, and six crossings at

the side edges.

The knot shown here has four side crossings and may be made by

tucking as explained at the bottom of page 102, or it may be tied by

method ]1jf2248.

To tie by the method given alongside for two ends: Middle the

cord, and pin to the cork board over the diagram. Pin the left end

at (I) and lay along the line of the diagram, tucking under any

830 section of cord encountered at a point that is marked with a circle.

When that cord has completed its circuit, lay in the right end at

831
(2) and tuck in the same manner. The basic knot (left diagram)

having been tied, extend the bottom bights and proceed to lat as

FRENCH SINNET (over one and under one). This knot raises rst to
832

nine and then to fourteen crossings at each side.

831. With two side crosses, the knot raises first to seven and then

to twelve crossings to the side.

833

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