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THE ASHLEY BOOK OF KNOTS

- A TURK'S-HEAD OF ELEVEN LEADS WITH SQUARE

CROSS SECTION TIED WITH ONE CORD

1390. This TURK'S-HEAD is based on a sinnet similar to the one

from which'll 1386 was evolved. Make a GUIDE KNOT of eleven leads

and six bights (six tacks or pins around the barrel). The sequence

in the right diagonals is over one, under two, and in the left diago-

nals, under one, over two. But the diagram is required to guide the

start of each diagonal.

The knot should be worked around a rope or other cylinder of

about twice the diameter of the cord that is used for the TURK's~

HEAD. Mold the knot into a square shape and pound it, if necessary,

with a mallet. Draw up, sink the ends, and trim them off.

A HALF ROUND TURK'S-HEAD

1391. The objection to many of the SOLID SIN NETS that are applied

to TURK'S-HEAD forms is that they bulk too large around the inner

circumference, which causes a crowding there, and there is also

- a stretching around the outer circumference. The sample given here

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• makes a very nice HALF ROUND TURK's-HEAD, which does not have
- this tendency. It is based on SINGLE-STRAND BUTTON diagram '#643.

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- The lay may be doubled, in which case a small STANDING TURK's-

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HEAD or a small MOUSE may be used as a core. Besides rendering the
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- knot firmer, this will make it more secure. Although much simpler

, 391 than'll 1389. this makes quite as effective a HALF ROUND KNOT.

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A TENNIS BAG LANYARD KNOT

1392. This was made to secure a lanyard to the iron ring of a

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netted tennis-ball bag (~3811). The knot is formed through the

ring, after which the lanyard and net are rove through one of the

com artments. It is here tied by the disk method as a comparatively

simp e introduction to several more elaborate knots which follow.

Pin the cord at 1 and tuck the end underneath wherever the cord

crosses itself at a point that is marked with a circle. In this case the

metal ring is also marked with circles and the end is tucked under the

ring wherever it is so marked. When the knot is complete, reeve the

139 2 lanyard and net through the compartment indicated by the arrow

and draw it snug.

1393. It seemed probable that a knot which formed a collar around

the neck of the lanyard might be more practical for the purpose

than the last.

An ordinary 5L X ~ TURK'S-HEAD was selected, but this was tied

on end, and the ring passed through opposite side compartments in-

stead of through the end compartments of the knot. Another knot,

somewhat in the shape of the letter T, was the next TURK'S-HEAD
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to be tied.

1394. To tie the letter T: Pin the cord at I, then follow the line,

pinning at 2, 3, 4, 5, etc., and tucking underneath wherever a circle

is passed in reg;ular numerical sequence.

The first T that was made proved unnecessarily large and the

10 crossbar of the T was of greater diameter than the standard.

A later trial resulted in the present knot, which corrected these

faults, but is much too large for the purpose for which '# 1 392 and

'II 1393 were used.

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