Knots, Splices and Rope Work
A Practical Treatise Giving Complete and Simple Directions for Making All the Most Useful and Ornamental Knots in Common Use, with Chapters on Splicing, Pointing, Seizing, Serving, etc.
Knots, Splices and Rope Work, published in 1917 by the naturalist and illustrator A. Hyatt Verrill, is a short practical manual for sailors, campers, riggers and anyone else who handles rope. After an introduction to cordage and its care, the chapters cover simple knots and bends, hitches and ties, nooses and loops, shortenings and lashings, splices and their uses, fancy knots and ornamental work such as Turk's heads and sennits, and halters for animals. More than a hundred of the author's own line drawings show each knot in the making, and an index allows quick reference by name. The book remains a common starting point for learning knots. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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