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    The Pocket Guide to Essential Knots: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Most Important Knots for Everyone
    The Pocket Guide to Essential Knots: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Most Important Knots for Everyone
    The Pocket Guide to Essential Knots: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Most Important Knots for Everyone
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    The Pocket Guide to Essential Knots: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Most Important Knots for Everyone

    By Peter Owen

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    21 Essential Knots for Everyday Use Indoors or Outdoors!

    This compact little reference book includes knots for a wide range of functions, from home to work, hobby to play activities. No knot-tying jargon is used, no baffling technical terms—just simple step-by-step instructions and outstandingly clear line drawings. It's the perfectly portable knot reference for anyone—scouts, sailors, hunters, anglers, gardeners, farmers, horse riders, you name it!

    Among the knots in this book are:
    • Overhand knot
    • Heaving line knot
    • Reef knot
    • Sheetbend
    • Fisherman’s knot,
    • Figure-of-eight loop 
    • Bowline 
    • Three-part crown
    • Sheepshank
    • Half-hitch
    • Clove hitch,
    • Constrictor knot
    • Pile hitch
    • Highwayman’s hitch
    • Waggoner’s hitch 
    • Timber hitch
    • Double-loop knot
    • Uni-knot
    • Blood knot
    • Square lashing 
    • And more!
    Start learning these useful and practical knots today with The Pocket Guide to Essential Knots.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateMar 3, 2020
    ISBN9781510752238
    The Pocket Guide to Essential Knots: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Most Important Knots for Everyone
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    Peter Owen

    Peter Owen is an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer and has worked for an impressive list of international clients, including Coca Cola, Nestlé, Guinness, Disney and McDonald’s. He has also written and illustrated over twenty published books on a variety of subjects including the graphic arts and outdoor pursuits. He is married with three children and lives in the Cotswolds.

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      The Pocket Guide to Essential Knots - Peter Owen

      INTRODUCTION

      It is an amazing fact that in today’s high-tech world we can solve almost any problem via the internet or with some staggeringly clever gadget, but sometimes you still can’t beat a good, old fashioned knot! People have been tying knots to solve problems since the beginning of recorded history.

      Using a piece of rope, cord, string or twine and securing it with a knot is often a simple, practical and very comforting way to solve many everyday problems.

      The Pocket Guide to Essential Knots will show you how to tie 21 key knots for everyday use: for home, work, hobby and play activities, indoors and outdoors.

      This small handy pocket book does not pretend to be a knot encyclopedia, nor does it contain any knot-tying jargon or technical terms. It just contains easy to follow step-by-step tying instructions and possible uses for a handful of very useful and practical knots that should cope with most situations the average person will encounter.

      Many people know how to tie one or two knots, not always correctly! This book is designed to give you a few more options. By helping you choose the right knot for the job and tie it correctly, this book hopefully will make life run just a little bit more smoothly.

      KNOT-TYING MATERIAL

      It is possible to tie a knot with an extremely wide variety of materials, both natural fibers and man-made synthetics. Natural fibers such as cotton, flax, jute, sisal, coir, hemp, raffia and manila are still used but in general they have given way to man-made synthetic materials such as nylon, polyester, polypropylene and polyethylene.

      The essential knots featured in this book are most commonly tied with rope, cord, string and twine. Ropes are traditionally anything over 0.5inch (12mm) in diameter and are often referred to as lines. Smaller stuff is known as cordage; while strings and twines are generally even thinner.

      Nylon, first produced in 1938 for domestic use, was the first man-made, synthetic material to be used. Since then wide ranges of artificial rope, cord, string and

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