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Knots on the Web
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Welcome to my collection of knotting resources.
My major sections are on Knot Tying, Knot Theory, and Knot Art. But knot lovers will understand that these distinctions are artificial. For example, a good practical knot is both a nugget of hard-won technology and a thing of beauty. Decorative knotting can be useful, and in any case requires uncommon dexterity and practical tying ability. Software developed to help mathematical knot theorists has produced some of the most beautiful knot images ever seen. So look at all three sections even if you think your interests are narrow. You might become happily entangled.
My fourth section is on Knot Discussion. Use these discussion forums to find answers to your knotting questions and to help others who know less than you do.
My fifth section is on Knot Software. You'll be surprised at how knotting software can make it easier for you to learn to tie knots, to explore the mathematical properties of knots, and to create stunning images of knots, including knots never seen on Earth.
My sixth section is on Knot Videos. If written instructions and still photos don't explain the intricacies of knotting well enough for you, try some of these videos (or some instructional software).
My seventh section is on Knot Books. Click on these links to buy knotting classics from Amazon.com. I've designed this section to aim for excellence, not completeness. It's limited to books I can personally recommend.
My eighth section is a Knot Gallery to display the images from rec.crafts.knots, the only usenet newsgroup devoted to knots.
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- The International Guild of Knot Tyers.
This is the organization to join if you are a serious knot tyer. Its journal, Knotting Matters, is the only English-language print journal devoted exclusively to knots.
- The North American Branch has its own web page. The NAB publishes the InterKnot newsletter. (Interknot was formerly on the web, but the link is now dead. Does anyone know whether it's gone for good?)
- The Pacific Americas Branch has its own own page.
- The Texas Branch also has its own page.
- There are many other branches without their own web sites.
- Het Knoopeknauwertje. The English-language International Edition of the Dutch knotting journal. Apparently defunct. I'm still investigating what happened to it.
- Nylon Highway. The magazine of rope, climbing, and cave exploration. From the Vertical Section of the National Speleological Society. The back issues do not exist in electronic form. Recent issues are online but only accessible to paying subscribers
- Ropers Knots Page. Maintained by Ed Prins. The most thorough page of links to knot sites, except possibly mine; but he includes some sites I omit and vice versa. Also available in Dutch. Now contains an ambitious Knot Index, an alphabetic list of links to every distinct knot discussed or illustrated on the web.
- Brion Toss Rigging. The professional site of Brion Toss, the leading authority on ship rigging alive today. (I sell his knotting and rigging books in my book section, below.) Includes a catalog, news, links, and Spar Talk, his wonderful discussion board.
- The Knotting Dictionary of Kännet. Maintained by Jan Korpegård. Under each knot, Korpegård gives the knot's name in 10 languages, and asks readers of other languages to send him the names of the same knots in their languages; he even provides the form for submitting the names electronically. Also available in Swedish.
- Knot Knotes. A knot miscellany from Jack Keene that includes illustrations, instruction, links, lore, and a cartoon.
- Knot Tying Resources. From Martin Combs. On request he'll send you an email with his list of sources for materials, tools, and books for knot tying. Also see his very good page of books on knots and tall ships.
- Folsom's Knots and Knotting Page. A strong and interesting page of knots and knot links. Covers the basic knots, 50 more advanced knots, animations, Turk's Heads, and knot knives, knot books, and more. From Alan Folsom.
- Notable Knot Index. Thirteen knots, well-illustrated, and lots of useful related information. The site author wishes to remain anonymous except for his email address, which is on the front page.
- NudosA very large number of well-illustrated knots, with their names in Spanish. From Hernan Murno. This site has disappeared and Google can't find it. Does anyone know where it went?
- Splicing Guides. Select the kind of rope you want to splice, click, and follow the detailed, illustrated directions. From New England Ropes.
- Rigging. An enormous, illustrated work in progress. The U.S. Army Engineer School is putting full-text of the Army Field Manual of Rigging on the web. You'll have to download large files, but it's worth it. An earlier edition.
- NetKnots.com. A fairly large collection of knots for camping, fishing, and boating. Well-organized and well-illustrated.
- Knots Online. From Northern Mountain Supply. Sixteen illustrated knots for camping and climbing.
- Knot Tying Notation. A "programming language" to record the steps in a knot tying method. Not for everyone, but the only notation of its kind for those who need one. From the Suberian knot labs.
- Six Exploding Knots.
Some of my own knot work.
- One of my exploding knots, under the name Exploding Hitch, was featured as the Knot of the Month in the October 1999 issue of Boating Magazine (p. 64). Unfortunately, the magazine is not on the web.
- Two of them have been re-drawn by David Blume. One has been illustrated in a series of eleven photographs by an anonymous fan.
- Knot So Fast. A proposal for regulating the world knot tying speed record. Another of my contributions.
- Notes on Clinton Bailey Sr. Notes on the world speed record-holder based on my conversation with his son in April 1998.
- World Record Six Knot Challenge. Photographs and drawings of the six knots used in the world record. From Daniel Callahan.
- Knot. A sort of online knotting journal in which the author reflects on new knots and knot tying and illustrates his reflections with very clear drawings. From Paul Shin-Hong Hahn.
- Some useful knots. Has links to some MPEG knot movies. Better than Knot's Landing.
- Knots and Hitches. Two elementary knots. Anonymous.
- Love Those Crazy Knots. JAVA-animated Turk's Head and Ocean Plain. From Thomas McClain.
- Klabautermanns Knotentafel. Animated knotting instructions from Matthias Böving.
- Knot Page of Mac Stevens. Superb knot animations. Temperamental, but when they are working, they are the best on the web.
- S.A. Kids Knots. A small number of knots but with stylish multimedia presentation. Requires Netscape 3.0 and the Shockwave plug-in; both may be downloaded from the site. Beware, the bowline is the less safe "left-handed" bowline, and some of its crossings are incorrect.
- Knots. Project ideas for kids. From 42eXplore.
- Learn2 Tie Basic Knots. Eight elementary knots fully explained and illustrated for the novice. From Learn2.com.
- Ropes and Knots. From the Arboriculture homepage. One knot so far (Cat's Paw), otherwise just links to other, knot-related sites.
- Rope Tips. Eleven basic knot illustrations from Lehigh Samson, a rope manufacturer. Also see its page on splicing.
- Rope Works. Generous excerpts from the book of the same name, by Gerald Findley. Very good illustrations.
- Flip Flop Winch. Winding cord around a winch log to aid in flipping it, from John Goude (based on an idea by Mors Kochanski).
- Hojojutsu. Japanese rope restraint for prisoners.
- Nunchaku Tying. Tying in to this Japanese martial arts weapon. From Sei Shin Kan, Inc.
- Tsukamaki. How to tie the knots on a traditional Japanese samurai sword. From Thomas L. Buck.
- How to Tie a Figure-8 Knot. Remarkable only because it is animated. From the Nathan Lowe Memorial Climbing Wall Network.
- GORP Knot of the Week. Knots useful for camping described and illustrated. From GORP (Great Outdoor Recreation Pages).
- The Art of Marlinspike. Elementary.
- Splicing a Rope on a 30 hour Longcase Clock. Instructions for splicing woven, synthetic cord. From George Aldridge.
- Forensic Knot Analysis. The only site of its kind on the web. From J.J. Van Tassel.
- Knots for Bondage. 14 basic knots, illustrated (but not in their application to bondage). From Slakker. Probably the only major knotting application neglected by Ashley.
- Square Knot. From an online First Aid manual. Any paramedic who needs four illustrations to learn to tie a square knot should lie down and wait for help. This site has disappeared and I can't relocate it. Can anyone help?
- Talking Knots of the Inka. Abstract of an article by Viviano and Davide Domenici on the use of Peruvian quipus to designate syllables of words, not numbers. No knot illustrations. From the journal Archaeology, Vol. 49, No. 6 (November/December 1996).
- The Quipucamayu. An article on the Inca quipu by Madge Miller.
- Knots and twists. Part of a display on pre-historic knotting and weaving at the Pecos Rio Grande Museum of Early Man.
- Knotscape. Links to other knotting sites including pictures of some of the author's knots. From Starknot.
- The Turk's Head. Twelve illustrations to help you tie a Turk's Head (or as this site calls it, a WoodBadge Woggle).
- Tying a Five-Lead by Four-Bight Turk's Head. Part of Loren Damewood's site on knotted jewelry.
- The Better Bow. Anonymous. A improvement over the standard bow for shoe-laces, well-illustrated, but not as good a bow as variations with two ripcords where this has only one.
- How To Tie an Ian Knot. A well-illustrated, symmetrical, two-ripcord shoelace bow with a very rapid method of tying. A real improvement over the standard bow. From Ian Fieggen.
- How I Tie My Shoes. A simple shoelace knot from Howard Cheng.
- The Sling, Ancient Weapon. History and use of slings. The author, James Burdine, sells hand-tied slings but does not give tying instructions on the site.
- Des noeuds en Jèrriais. The basic knot names in English and Jèrriais [Jersey], a dialect of French. From Geraint Jennings.
- How to amaze your friends in seven easy steps!. Guess what? A knot trick.
- Security was a knotted rope. First chapter in the Schlage History of Locks, implying that knotted ropes are obsolete now that metal locks have arrived. Schlage executives probably wear tassle loafers at work so that the steel hasp locks on their cross-trainers don't clank during meetings.
- Kaylee, the Knot-Tying Parrot. With photographs of a few of Kaylee's creations. From Doug and Shelly Lane.
- Knot Natural. Photograph of a knotted live cactus cultivated by sculptor Denny North by growing it on its side and upside down.
- The Legend of the Gordian Knot
- Should You Secure Wire Rope With Knots?
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) says "no"
in this memorandum opinion interpreting federal regulations. This site
has made me realize that the federal government regulates almost every
aspect of rigging in the name of workplace safety. One day I'll find
all the relevant parts of the Code of Federal Regulations
and link to them here. (Although the CFR is searchable, don't naively
search for "rigging" or you'll get 150,000 hits on bid-rigging.) Here
are some of the more salient sections of the CFR to get you started.
- 29 CFR Sec. 1915.112, Ropes, chains, and slings
- 29 CFR Sec. 1919.24, Limitations on use of wire rope
- 29 CFR Sec. 1926.251, Rigging equipment for material handling
- 33 CFR Sec. 401.42, Passing hand lines
- 46 CFR Sec. 91.37-50, Use of wire rope and chains.
- All About Knots. From Dick Chisholm. Contains excerpts from Chisholm's writings about knots (full-text is available only for a fee) and describing his forthcoming book.
- The Clifford W. Ashley Commemorative Stamp Project. News of the effort to commemorate Ashley plus general knotting news especially about meetings and conferences. From Dick Blackmer.
- The Gospel According to Ashley. An article by Steve Knauth, in Soundings, on the effort to persuade the U.S. Post Office to issue a stamp honoring Clifford Ashley, author of Ashley's Book of Knots.
- Clifford Warren Ashley. A short biographical note from the New Bedford Whaling Museum.
- Ties That Bind. An article by Steve Knauth, in Soundings, on knots and the International Guild of Knot Tyers.
- Knotted Word Worms. A word puzzle by Mike Keith in which the challenge is to find words that trace a knot on a three dimensional grid.
- Knot Calendar. Twelve photos for twelve months, sinuous curves for your wall. From the Ink Group, calendar series.
- Knots & Splices (a bibliography). Maintained by Lars Bruzelius for the The Maritime History Virtual Archives.
- Falconer's Knot. (Note that this is the knot, not the net. Nyet?) Scroll to the sixth topic. The illustrations are probably too small to teach this knot to newcomers, but large enough to remind those who once knew it.
- Making a Falconer's Net. Detailed instructions and illustrations for making a Dho-gazza. This site seems to have disappeared without a trace. Can any readers help locate it?
- Making Your Own Ganglines. If you need to ask what ganglines are (harnesses for sled dogs), then you don't need to make your own. Otherwise, these clear instructions should help. From Stephen Lee.
- Tie a First-Class Rope Halter. By Connie Nygard. Detailed directions for the series of knots needed to make a horse's halter out of rope. See especially her diagram on the Fiador knot.
- Horse Knots. Different methods for tying a fiador and links to others. From Jef Vandenberghe.
- Rope Halter. Detailed instructions for tying a rope halter from the Pony Club Association of Victoria.
- Halter Tying Instructions. From David Dill.
- Tying Horse Knots. Instructions for the fiador, mecate, and a halter. From Cynthia Cavanaugh.
- The Hackamore. Illustrated instructions for tying and using this headstall for a horse or mule. From Sue King.
- Hackamores. Hand-braided leather hackamores for sale, made by Ed Pass, Sara Hagel, and Ray Huffman.
- Animated Knots. Several well-done animations by "rhinckle". From New England Climbing.
- Belaying Guide. From the Outdoor Action Program at Princeton. Instruction on harness knots.
- Caving Knots. Good selection and graphics. From Sherry Mayo.
- Freeclimbing. The best climbing site on the web. I've linked to a search for knots.
- http://www.climbing.ie/knots.html">Climbing Knot Dictionary. 20 knots, mostly for climbing, well-illustrated in three colors. From Dave Hunt and Irish Climbing On-line.
- Knot Knowledge. 23 knots, mostly for climbing, clearly illustrated with 4-6 black-and-white photographs each. Anonymous.
- Noeuds Spéléos. Two illustrated caving knots. From Manuel du Secouriste.
- Nudos en Espeleología. Clear illustrations of some caving and climbing knots.
- Prusik Rappel "Safety".
An article by Dr. Gary D. Storrick, arguing against the use of the Prusik knot at least in caving.
- The Prusik Knot. From Geoff Kuenning and Marc Anderson. On use of the Prusik in place of ascenders for climbing the mast of a ship.
- Beading Knots. Four knots for beading. From Maxine.
- The Bindery Knot. A knot for tying packages. From Donna Ashley for the benefit of MIT librarians.
- The Clones Knot. An Irish crochet knot, illustrated with eight photographs.
- French Knot. An illustrated cross-stitch knot. From Debbie Wilcock.
- Hammock Instructions. From Rita Barthelomew's larger site on netting.
- Making a Netted Hammock. Adequate but minimal instructions. From Earth Guild.
- Hammock Pattern. Scanned from an uncited printed source. Slow-loading. From Pu Bear's Collectibles. This site has also disappeared without a trace. Does anyone know where it went?
- Hammock Instructions. Minimal but helpful. From Earth Guild.
- Hammock Kits. If you want to make your own but don't want to start from scratch. From Hammocks from Bougainville.
- Kite Flier's Knot Gallery. Four knots, well illustrated.
- Netting. A comprehensive site. From Rita Bartholomew.
- Knotcraft. Excerpts from a book by Stuart E. Grainger. Useful for netting.
- Slatt's Rescue Belt. Instructions for making a woven belt which instantly unweaves when you need an emergency length of cordage. From Philip Sinnet-Slattery.
- Some Weaving Knots. Two clear photographs.
- The Best Knots. Advice on fishing knots. No illustrations. From Fly Fisherman Magazine.
- Fishing Knots. Chapter 1 of Ern Grant's book, Grant's Guide: Fishing Knots and Rigs. Many knots and good illustrations. One of the better sites on fishing knots.
- Fishing Knots. Eight fishing knots, well-illustrated. From High Sierra Fly Casters.
- Fishing Knots. Seven knots, each with multiple, clear illustrations. From Grays of Kilsyth, a Scottish fly maker.
- Fishing Knots and Rigging. Twenty-two knots, animated illustrations. From Marinews.
- Fisherman's Knots. Seven knots illustrated. From the Toledo Bend Reservoir.
- Killroy's Knots. Ten fishing knots, well-illustrated. From Killroy's Fly Tying and Fly Fishing. Knotting instructions and illustrations courtesy of The Orvis Co.
- Knots and Connections [for Fishing]. For these Danish fisherfolk, a "connection" is a bend.
- Useful Fishing Knots. Three knots from the Bass Fishing Home Page.
- Knots. Five fishing knots, three illustrations each. From New York Bass.
- Knots. Three fishing knots, 4-5 illustrations each. From Backwater Tackle.
- Flyfishing knots. Illustration from online ad for FlyTy software.
- Knots for the Flyfisher. From Bruce Harang.
- The Bimini Twist. From WorldWideAngler.com. There are many other fishing knots at this site. Just use their search engine to find them. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a page collecting them all together.
- Knot Tying Overview. Six fishing knots from High Country Flies.
- Knots. From The Fishernet.
- Three Fishing Knots. Text and illustrations poorly scanned.
- Knots for the Flyfisher. Knot links from elsewhere on the web.
- Knots: Putting It All Together. Knots for flyfishing by Dave Whitlock.
- Davy's Knot. A fishing knot by Davy Wotton.
- Tying the Huffnagle. One (fishing) knot illustrated with seven photographs.
- Knots and Fishing Knots. Animated knot-tying software for Windows by Frank Cooke. A large number of knots, taught with great clarity. View the tying process step by step, forwards and backwards. Better instruction than books or videotape. The web site now has a sample animation.
- The Nail Knot. One (fishing) knot illustrated with three line-drawings.
- Knots. Nine fishing knots illustrated. From The HorseMinnow fishing site.
- Knot Tying Page. Five fishing knots. Poor illustrations.
- Fisherman's Ty-All. Ad for a fishing knot tool.
- Rudy's Snell Tyer. Ad for a fishing knot tool.
- EZKnot. Ad for fishing knot tool.
- Fishing Fool Tool. Ad for a fishing knot tool. With RealVideo instruction for two fishing knots (Nail Knot, and Snell knot) and instructions and illustrations for another nine fishing knots.
- Knot-Tying Aids. Manufacturers of various fishing knot tools.
- The Needle Knot. From Saltwater Fishing in New Jersey.
- The Rapala Knot. From Rapala Corp., a fishing supplies company.
- How to Tie a Tie. From BizWeb. The classical necktie knots.
- Four Ways to Tie a Tie. More classical necktie knots, from FashionMall.
- Knots Etc.. More classical necktie knots, from Knots Etc. Ties and Apparel).
- How to Tie a Necktie. More classical necktie knots, with some variations, from MBA Style Magazine
- Necktie Repository. More classical necktie knots, from Jim Scarborough.
- Online Ties. Illustrations for eight different necktie knots.
- Tie Yourself in Knots. From Jim Landman. Landman's page of necktie-related links, including necktie knot links, is the best I've seen.
- Learn2.com has clear illustrations of the 4-in-hand and bowtie knots.
- Animated necktie knot. The instructions are in Dutch but the picture is self-explanatory. This site seems to have disappeared. Can anyone help relocate it?
- McSea necktie knot page. Illustrates the windsor and half-windsor. This site seems to have disappeared. Can anyone help relocate it?
- The Pratt Knot. From The Fashion Page.
- Tiecrafter's necktie knot page. Collecting links to several necktie pages.
- Tying the Knot. A book of instructions by Andrew Cochran.
- Five scarf-tying knots. Accompanied by Rush Limbaugh's demonstration, in which this sartorial authority misperceives which knot the world would like to see him tie around his neck.
- Tie Master. A device to help you tie a necktie knot. "A simple solution to an age old problem." Not quite as simple as an unassisted knot —or as giving up neckties.
- See how Marvin Minsky improvised a necktie with climbing rope —and no knots— in his Original Rope Tie.
- You've probably heard about Yong Mao and Thomas Fink,
the two physicists from Cambridge's prestigious Cavendish Laboratory
who turned from physics, even from respectable knot theory, to necktie
theory. Because they published their mathematical analysis of necktie
knots in the equally prestigious journal Nature
(vol. 398, pp. 31-32, March 4, 1999), their new knots have become the
biggest knot story in the mainstream press since the supposed discovery
of the Hunter's Bend in 1978. But while the Hunter's Bend is a useful
knot, this is just a pain in the neck. Here are some details.
- Solving a Knotty Problem. From the BBC. Contains links to video demonstrations (require a RealPlayer plugin).
- Telling a Fink From a Pratt. From the London Telegraph.
- Physicists Tie the Knot. From Reuters, presented by Wired News.
- Physicists' Work is All for Knot. From the Dallas Morning News.
- An HTML version of the Fink & Mao Article. From Fink's home page, not Nature. Also see their page of instructions for the four traditional necktie knots (not for any of their own).
- Con-Ferr Rope Locks. For cargo lashing and boat lines.
- Flip Lacer. Flipping plastic toggle for shoelaces.
- Lazy Lock. Adjustable, sliding lock for shoelaces.
- Safety Plus Rope Lock. For closing bags like laundry bags.
- Y * Ties. Curly elastic shoelaces tangle together to make tying unnecessary.
- Zip-A-Rope. The ad inconsistently appeals to "anyone who enjoys the outdoors" but who hates "to fight with stubborn knots."
- Basic Ropework Test. Test yourself with this exam designed for Australian rescue workers.
- Cordage. Lots of useful information from the SailingProShop.
- Rope-Making Machines. Choose from the Bradshaw Rope Maker and the Leonardo Rope Machine (and formerly Apollo Cord Winder). Described, illustrated, and ready to order. From the Textura Trading Company. Textura also sells all kinds of fiber supplies for textile artists.
- Bradshaw's Rope Machine. From the Bob Patterson Company. A one-person machine powered by a variable speed, reversible hand drill.
- Cordage. Data on strength, elasticity, tenacity, weight, and so on, of common synthetic ropes. From Allied Signal Fibers.
- Cordage Fibre Characteristics. Strength, weight, elasticity, coefficient of friction, critical temperature, and so on. From Layline.
- The Cordage Institute. A non-profit association of manufacturers which works toward voluntary technical standards for cordage, rope, and twine.
- Making Rope. See Jack Keene's instructions for making laid rope without a machine.
- Native American Cordage. An excellent, illustrated compendium of Native American cordage technology. Part of the larger NativeTech site.
- New England Ropes. A cordage manufacturer's home page.
- Pelican Rope Works. A cordage manufacturer's home page.
- Rope and Gear Testing. One of the most thorough rope-testing pages I've seen. From Tom Moyers.
- Rope Basics. From Boy Scout Troop 940.
- Rope Care. Excerpts from a Samson Rope brochure.
- Rope Care. A page from Jimmy Green Marine Ropes and Rigging.
- Rope Care. A page from Marlowe Ropes.
- Rope Data. Weight per meter, elongation, mantle shifting, and so on, for climbing ropes. Anonymous.
- Rope Data. Breaking strength, linear density, working load, and so on. From United States Rope Company.
- Rope Locker. Good collection of links to sites on rope, rigging, knots, and block and tackle systems. A page within the larger SchoonerMan site.
- Rope Making. A Yahoo discussion group on the craft.
- Ropes and Cords. From Merv Martin. Very thorough and well-illustrated. Also see his recipe for a rope stretcher.
- Strength of Rope. Incorrectly asserts that "knotted rope" (regardless of the knot) reduces strength by 15%. From Diver's Datalog.
- Basic Knots. Not rescue-specific knots, but I put it here because it's published in a search and rescue newsletter. Illustrated with color photos of colored cord.
- The Blue Ridge Mountain Rescue Group Knot Review. Good collection of knots, well-illustrated with color photographs.
- Considerations for Technical Rope Rescue. From Kenneth N. Laidlaw. Thorough text, very clear illustrations.
- Herschel Rope Rescue Training Systems. From Herschel Rescue, Toronto.
- MUEMS Rope Rescue Team. From Marshall University. Contains a large number of illustrated knots.
- River Rescue. Many useful links. From otterman.
- Rope Rescue. From the Mountain Ambulance Service (Mountain, Wisconsin). Contains some very clear knot illustrations.
- Rope Rescue Page. Tips and discussion from the Search and Rescue Society of British Columbia.
- Ropes, Webbing, and Knots. An outline of a search and rescue training course. No illustrated knots.
- Boating Knots. Seven elementary boating knots. From Black Lake, a fishing site.
- Boating Knots. Five elementary boating knots. From OnWater, a boat store.
- Boating Rope Knots. Seven elementary boating knots. From Marinews, an Australian boating site.
- Burglar-Proof Knot. For $9.95 this company will sell you the secret for tying up your dingy with a "burglar-proof knot". The ad ends with a joke (if you have thievery in your heart, they'll send you a fake knot), so it may be a hoax. Of course, every knot that can be tied can be untied with time and a fid —even the Gordian knot. If anyone learns what you get for your $9.95, please let me know.
- Common Boating Knots. Ten common knots, described and illustrated. From New England Ropes.
- Commonly Used Boating Knots. From Suncoast Boating. Elementary.
- How To Tie One On. Tips on tying up canoes and kayaks. Good text but no illustrations.
- Knots, Hitches, and Splices. Elementary knots for sailing, no illustrations.
- Knots To Know [for sailing]. The knots are elementary, but their illustrations are animated.
- Line Handling and Marlinspike. Five boating knots each illustrated with three still drawings and one animation. From BoatSafe.com.
- Marlinspike Knot of the Month. Over a dozen common boating knots. Now animated GIFs being converted to Java scripts that permit stopping and reversing. From the Shooting Star Boating Safety Page.
- Marlinespike Learning Guide. Advertisement for a course and booklet. From United States Power Squadrons.
- NautBob's Knots. Elementary boating knots. Also a page of fishing knots.
- Nós de Marinheiro. Illustrated sailing knots. Instructions in Portuguese. From the Associação Nacional de Cruzeiros (Lisbon).
- Rigging for Windsurfers. From Easy Riser, Inc.
- Rope Loop. Illustrated instructions for tying a "handle" into loop to ease the pressure on your hand. From Paul.
- Animated Knots. From Boy Scout Troop 700. These pages require the Microsoft PowerPoint Animation Player, a browser plug-in you can download from the site.
- Basic Knots in Outdoor/Adventure Awards. Includes bends and lashes, loops, hitches, and stopper knots. From the Boys' Brigade Australia.
- Boy Scouts of America Knot Designs for Awards and Badges. Thirty ways to color a square knot.
- Get Knotted! Animated Knots for Scouts. Clear animations of 15 useful knots, with helpful comments on each. From the 42nd Brighton Scout Group, East Sussex.
- Knot Diagrams. Four elementary knots. From Brad Pozarnsky.
- Knotmasters. A knot-learning program for scouts in England's North Star District.
- Knots. A large site on knots for scouts. The most useful feature is an alphabetical guide to 130+ common knots.
- Knots! Knots! Knots!. Animated instructions from Troop 72.
- Knots and Scouting. From André van der Salm. Jump to his main knot page. In English and Dutch.
- Knotting. From the 22nd Farnworth Scout Group. Includes an impressively large knot index, organized both alphabetically and by use. Each knot indexed is illustrated with very clear drawings.
- Knot Tying. Five elementary knots for sea scouts.
- Lashing Projects. A large number of clear drawings of lashing projects built by scouts.
- Learn to Tie a Few Knots!. Three basic knots. Aims at beginners yet uses words more than pictures. From the Royal Ambassadors of Kennesaw, Georgia.
- Pictures of Scouting Knots. Apparently scanned from a book, including the accompanying text.
- Royal Rangers Ropecraft. Requirements for the "advanced merit" level, no illustrations.
- The Scout Association of Australia, Index of Knots and Lashings.
- Scouting Knots. A collection of common knots (still growing) illustrated with photographs and demonstrated with effective animations. From Bob Gibson and the Montana Council's Troop 9.
- Cub Scout Knot Quiz. This page seems to have disappeared without a trace. Can any readers help locate it?
- Boy Scout Knot Quiz. What knots would you use for various common applications?
- Know Your Knots?. Another scouting knot quiz. From the boy scouting section of About.com.
- Commonly Used Rope and Knot Terms. Another scouting knot quiz (well done). Also contains animated instructions for six basic knots. From Troop 222, Belaire Texas.
- American Hemp. Twine, yarn, cordage, rope, and webbing, but wholesale only. Seattle, Washington.
- Custom Cords. Multi-colored braided cords for purchase and special order. In cotton and synthetic fibers. From D. Booker and Associates.
- Fid-O / McGrew Splicing Tool. You may not think you need this, but can you splice braided to twisted cord? If not, see the MPG at the site of Jim McGrew, the inventor, showing how it's done.
- Footrope Knots. Des Pawson's cordage and knot-tool shop, now with a web site.
- Hempland's Twine and Rope. Hemp twine, cord, and yarn in many sizes.
- Jimmy Green Marine Ropes and Rigging. Mail order chandlery in Beer, East Devon. Large inventory.
- The Knot Shoppe. Purveyor of fancy knots and supplies for fancy knotwork. See his online store. From "knot tyer" in Anchorage, Alaska. Also see the proprietor's Museum of Fancy Knots, and knots for sale at eBay.
- Macramé cord. Synthetic, 16 colors available. From Pu Bear's Collectibles.
- Marlowe Ropes. Many varieties. In East Sussex.
- Osborne Marlinspikes. From C.S. Osborne and Co., Harrison, NJ.
- Petzl. Suppliers for climbers and rope rescue e.g. cordage, harnesses, helmets, carabiners, etc. Crolles, France (with offices around the world).
- The Rescue Source. Specializing in water rescue equipment, including cordage.
- Rock-n-Rescue. Supplies for climbers and rope rescue teams, e.g. cordage, ascenders, pulleys, carabiners, etc. Valencia, Pennsylvania.
- Rope Magic. Supplies for rope magic from Denis the Magician.
- Scientific Nature Hemp Emporium. Twine, yarn, cordage, rope, and webbing. Bellingham, Washington.
- Brion Toss's Catalog. Knotting tools (plus Brion's books and videos).
- U-Braid-It Braiding Supply Co. Synthetic cord, leather, and mohair supplies for making horse tack. The site also includes some lessons.
- Urban H.A.R.T. Rescue Training. Buy rescue equipment from the site, including rope and harnesses.
- For suppliers without web sites, see Martin Combs' good list.
- Arthroscopic Knot Tying. From Don Johnson. Illustrated with nine photographs or in an animation (which is really a slide show of the nine still photos).
- Arthroscopic Knot Tying. From Robert K. Lieurance and Wesley M. Nottage. Detailed descriptions of many techniques, with thumb-nail and enlarged illustrations.
- Ethicon Knot Tying Manual. Another detailed and well-illustrated, professional manual for surgeons. From Ethicon Inc., which is a division of Johnson and Johnson.
- Excision: Knot Tying. Surgical knot tying. Click the "next" and "previous" buttons at the bottom of the screen for more detail and context.
- Interactive Suturing. The front page contains an alert service to recently published papers on suturing. Visit regularly to stay up to date. From InteractiveSuturing.com.
- Intracorporeal Knot Tying with the Endo Stitch. Text and illustrations. Part of a larger site on the Stringer laparoscopic suturing technique.
- Med I.A. Knot Tying and Suturing. Multimedia instruction for surgeons. This content was formerly on the web, but its producers evidently decided to make some money by pulling it off and selling it as a CD. The link takes you to an ad for the CD with a tiny bit of content.
- Surgical Knot Tying Manual. Detailed and well-illustrated. By pros for pros. From Richard F. Edlich of the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
- Vesalius Clinical Folios on Surgical Technique.
Another detailed, well-illustrated, professional manual for surgeons.
Don't overlook the "next" and "back" buttons at the bottom of the
screens. There are several pages of instruction in each folio. From Vesalius.
- One-Handed Surgical Knot.
- Two-Handed Surgical Knot
- Basic Surgical Hand Ties. Instruction in the basic surgical knots tied by hand.
- Basic Instrument Tie. Instruction in tying knots with surgical instruments rather than fingers.
General. Also see the discussion forums, software, videos, and books on knot tying.
Animal-handling knots. Other than fishing knots.
Climbing and caving knots. Also see the books on climbing knots in the Book section.
Craft knots. Also see fancy and decorative knots.
Fishing knots
Necktie knots. Look how many sites there are on necktie knot compared to (say) climbing or fishing knots. This shows you what men care about these days —vanity and conformity even at the price of discomfort. Men of the world, awaken! This is the age of the internet. If your boss makes you wear a tie, leave your boss. Start your own company. Telecommute. Tie the knots you want to tie and no others.
Not Knots. Products which make knots unnecessary, mostly for shoelaces. I don't plan to link to all sites for buckles, velcro, hooks, carabiners, nails, staples, glue, and so on. Hey, I'm a partisan. But these Anti-Knot sites can be helpful to parents of very young children, boaters with arthritic fingers, and those turning to the dark side.
Rope and cordage
Rope rescue. Here I only include rope rescue sites which include some knot-related instruction online. Also see the books on rope rescue in the Book section, the section on suppliers, and the knot discussion forums.
Sailing and boating knots
Scouting
Suppliers
Surgical knots. If you go to PubMed and enter the search string, knot* OR sutur* , then you'll get a huge list of citations to surgical knotting (more than 2200 articles in January 2001). Unfortunately, PubMed searches don't have unique URLs so I can't link to such a search for you.
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- MathSearch Knot Pages. Clicking on this link will initiate a search for knot-related pages on MathSearch, the dedicated mathematical search engine.
- The KnotPlot Site.
Information on the fabulous knot-projection graphic software written by Rob Scharein, with stunning examples, one of which I use at the top of this page; see Artwork credits. Essentially the same as The Knot Square site, which I've listed under Knot Art below.
- International Knot Theory Meeting, August 7-15, 1998.
- The Geometry Junkyard Page on Knot Theory. An excellent page of links to web sites on knot theory, maintained by David Eppstein.
- Knot Theory. From Mark Brittenham. Good collection of links.
- Entrance to WWW on Knot Theory. From Masakazu Teragaito. Selected links to knot theory sites.
- Yahoo Guide to Knot Theory. Not very extensive but will probably grow.
- Knot Theory. Course and lectures by Brian Sanderson.
- Knot Theory. From Mouse Bousfield. Hand-outs and links for a course on knot theory.
- Knot Theory. An excellent collection of links from Icarus Research Data Centre Math Bookmarks.
- Knot Theory: Project Suggestions. Ideas for student projects. From Paul J. Kapitza.
- Knot Theory Lab. Apparently in Korean. But even if you don't read the language, there are some great graphics, including a nice table of prime knots. These pages seem to have disappeared without a trace. Can anyone help find them again?
- Knot Theory at Liverpool. From the University of Liverpool Department of Mathematical Sciences.
- Knots and Templates. Part of larger book on nonlinear dynamics and chaos by Nicholas B. Tufillaro, Jeremiah Reilly, and Tyler Abbott.
- Knots. Some basic concepts of knot theory, with some links to related topics. From Alexander Bogomolny.
- The Unknotting Number of a Knot. February 1997 cover story for What's New in Mathematics.
- Modularity in Art and Mirror Curves. Two unique and beautiful sites that would belong under Knot Art below but for their unusual combination of beauty and mathematical explanation. From Slavik Jablan.
- Ordering Knots. Another beautiful and lucid site from Slavik Jablan.
- Knot Theory Puzzles. Excerpts from a forthcoming book (sept 99); from Heather McLeay.
- Les Noeuds. French edition of Scientific American, issue devoted to knots.
- UMass GANG Knot Library. Contains links to a large number of knot diagrams, which require a PostScript viewer.
- Knot images. Beautiful, computer-generated images by Tom Longtin.
- Knot Gallery. Beautiful, complex knots from Milana Huang.
- Math Art Gallery. Many beautiful images of knots.
- Geometry and the Imagination in Minneapolis. Handouts for a two-week seminar led by John Conway, Peter Doyle, Jane Gilman and Bill Thurston at the Geometry Center in Minneapolis, June 17-28, 1991. Many pertain to knots.
- Knots and Links. Nine elegant knot and link graphics generated by Mathematica, with accompanying instructional text. From Leo Piilonen.
- Square Knots. An article by Brian Hayes in American Scientist on knots conceived as self-avoiding walks in 3-dimensional space.
- Ideal knots. An online catalogue of knot images and coordinates. From Ben Laurie, author of the Apache-SSL web server.
- Global curvature, ideal knots and models of DNA self-contact. An article by Oscar Gonzales.
- Ming. Knot software, plus neat illustrations, by Ying-Qing Wu.
- Scott Carter. Home page of a knot theorist.
- Morwen Thistlewaite. Home page of a knot theorist. Many beautiful knot graphics.
- Piotr Pierañski. Home page of a knot theorist, with links to several papers, including In Search of Ideal Knots, which has wonderful illustrations.
- On Composite Twisted Unknots. An article by Chaim Goodman-Strauss.
- Is A Knot Classification Possible?. An article by Charilaos Aneziris. Also see his The Problem of Knot Classification.
- Knots and Knotwork. From a site on Mathematics and the Liberal Arts. Summarizing articles on the mathematics of Celtic, Islamic, and Moorish knot designs.
- Design Any Knot From DNA. From Ned Seeman.
- Mathematics and Origin of String Figures. Taking string figures seriously. From Martin Probert.
- Jason's Favorite Knot. Borromean rings, with a brief introduction to knot theory, from Jason Cohen.
- Loops, Knots, Gauge Theories and Quantum Gravity.
An article by Rodolfo Gambini and Jorge Pullin.
- Knots and DNA. An article using knot theoretic topology to explore the action of enzymes, by De Witt Summners.
- Knots and Everything Book Series from World Publishing. Edited by Louis Kauffman.
- Knots, Braids, and Links. A list of online papers on knot theory, especially in physics rather than pure mathematics.
- A Bibliography of Literature on Knots and Braids. A very comprehensive list by Joyce A. Riley. Because of its size, slow-loading.
- Bibliography of Knot Theory. Another bibliography, not as good as Riley's. Anonymous.
- Glossary of Terms. Part of the excellent Knot Theory from High School students Jason Alonso (team leader), Andrei Garcia, and Stefan Nagey.
- Knot Glossary. Part of the excellent Mathmania knot theory site for kids. Apparently this supersedes the "Erdös For Kids" glossary of knot theory, made by the same folks, still on the web.
- Knot Theory. From Bryson R. Payne. An introduction for students. Uses animation to advantage.
- Knot Theory. From John Starrett. Brief introduction and collection of links under construction.
- Knot Theory. Clearly written, handsomely illustrated. From a team of high school students at the Severn School: Jason Alonso (team leader), Andrei Garcia, and Stefan Nagey.
- Knot Theory. Part of Eric Weisstein's larger World of Mathematics. Very thorough, clear, and well-illustrated.
- A Knot Theory Primer. By Charilaos Aneziris. Essentially an online textbook which treats a very large number of subtopics. Admirable thoroughness and clarity.
- Mathmania Knot Theory. A primer for kids, with challenging problems. One of four branches of mathematics covered at Mathmania. From Day Kirby.
- Mathematics and Knots. Online catalog of an exhibition at the School of Mathematics of the University of Wales, Bangor, sponsored by the London Mathematical Society. This site has grown over time to become a very good general introduction to knot theory.
- Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down. Handsome primer on knot theory. Anonymous.
- Untangling the Mathematics of Knots. A useful tutorial in knot theory for children from MegaMath, a group trying to bring mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms. Written by Nancy Casey. Among its subsections, Knots, Links and Other Mathematical Tangles introduces the basic notions with illustrations, and Activities with Knots suggests project ideas for teachers and students. Nancy has a follow-up site called New Ideas about Knots, with additional puzzles and exercises.
- Atlas of Oriented Knots and Links. From Corinne Cerf. An extremely useful reference.
- Knot Table. From Charilaos Aneziris. All distinct knots up to 12 crossings. Notation only, no projections.
- Knot Tables. Amazing work from 1992 done by the Claremont High School Supercomputing Club. Unfortunately, apart from this description, there is little to read directly on the web. Instead there are several files of prime knot tables to download by FTP (notation only, no projections).
- Knot Tables. Tables in English and Portuguese. Each knot in table is manipulable with the mouse; users may rotate them in any direction, even "throw" them into a spin. Both high-res (bigger download) and lower res (smaller download) availalbe, but even low res is stunning. Anonymous, using routines by Victor Sousa.
General. Also see the discussion forums, software, videos, and books on knot theory.
Knot theory bibliographies
Knot theory glossaries
Knot theory journals
Knot theory primers
Knot tables
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- The Knot Square. More on KnotPlot, the incredible knot-projection graphic software written by Rob Scharein, with stunning examples. Essentially the same as The KnotPlot Site, which I've listed under Knot Theory above.
- The Elegantly-Contrived Knot Page. Beautiful knot graphics from Knot, software written by Lloyd Burchill. I use an example on my Nomic page; see Artwork credits. Mac users: download the program!
- Knotology. Folding and tying strips of paper into elegant mathematical sculptures. Art by Heinz Strobl, text by Paula Versnick.
- The Knot Room. An elegant collection of animated graphics, many based on knots. From Staceyjoy.
- Knot That Small. Poster of a 2001 exhibition of fiber art objects built up by tying many small knots.
- Jaskets. Knotted fiber baskets by Tony Stubblefield.
- Chinese Knotting Home Page. An ancient art (Jai Yie), almost destroyed by the Cultural Revolution, now revived by a few books and this web site. Maintained by Carol Leon-Yun Wang.
- Chinese Decorative Knotting. Thorough and well-illustrated. Now in English. From Yvonne.
- Rough Art. Bold paintings of working knots. From Bruce Blanford. This page has disappeared without a trace. Does anyone know where it went?
- The Salomon's Knot. A knot depicted in early Christian mosaics and Roman petroglyphs. From Umberto Sansoni.
- Kuba Cosmology and Crafts. On the knot motif in the designs of the Congolese culture.
- How To Tie An Orthodox Prayer Rope Knot. Written instructions by Martin Watt and an ad for a video from Firebird Video. (The video links are dead. If anyone can help relocate the video, I'll add a link to the video collection.)
- Decorations from Andrew Birrell's Home Page. Intricate and attractive. I use two of his copyrighted knot keys on this page, with permission; see Artwork credits.
- Math art gallery.
Contains "Singularity Knots" and "Singularity Knot Animations".
- MATLAB Gallery. Contains a nice 10.9K knot image by Rouben Rostamian.
- Artesanía Mediterránea. Knot boards for sale.
- Mariyo Yagi's Rope Art. Making a huge rope as an art event.
- Knot Images. Images created by Steven Abbott and Jon Hawkes using Visual Basic Graphics Programming.
- Solmuja Sipoosta. Knot art by Kari Nikrus.
- Solmuja. Knot art by Hannu Keskitalo. Also available in Finnish.
- PB-Takilapaja Oy. Knot art from Paavo Broström. The text is in Finnish.
- Torus Knots. Handsome graphics linked to an image of a handsome sculpture by John Robinson.
- Not Knot. An image by Scott Kim.
- The Endless Knot. A nine-crossing knot projection which this site is pushing as "the peace sign for the next millenium". It's a nice knot, but its advocates do not apparently realize that all knot projections are "endless" in the same way.
- The Rope Show. An original play featuring human beings and cordage by the Chicago troupe, Local Infinities. It premiered 1/30/99 at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art.
- Wooden Knot Puzzles. From Interlocking Puzzles. Not very knotty.
- Aon Celtic Art. Celtic knotwork by Cari Buziak. The site includes instruction, clip art, cross-stich patterns, cards, and much more. Extensive and beautiful.
- The Art of Keltia. Celtic knotwork by Vitor Gonzalez. Beautiful images.
- Calamity's Celtic Page. On Celtic knots.
- The Celtic and Heraldic Center. The gallery contains Celtic knot artwork in copper by Gerry and Sean Forde.
- Celtic Art. Large, detailed, classy. From A. Reed Mihaloew.
- Celtic Clip Art. Many knot designs. From the House Ravenscroft Scriptorium.
- Celtic Clip Art at Ceolas. Some very nice examples. From Gerard Manning.
- Celtic Computer Art. Intricate and precisely rendered Celtic knotwork. Images plus advice on drawing them with graphic software. From A. Reed Mihaloew.
- Celtic Desktop Icons. Free for downloading. Some based on knots.
- Celtic Knot Graphics. From Jason Gabler. Scanned from original sources.
- The Celtic Knot Page. By Danno. Elegant pencil drawings. There are a few more designs at his home page.
- Celtic Knot Tattoo. Part of a larger (Leprechaun) site unrelated to knots.
- Celtic Knot Webring. Hundreds of participating sites.
- Celtic Knots. Mostly original designs by the anonymous page author.
- Celtic Knots. Designs by Frederick Cooper. Not in the same league as most of the other knotmeisters in this list.
- Celtic Knots. By Marc Wallace.
- Celtic Knotwork. Striking, original knot graphics from Andrew Glassner. (Although Glassner works in computer graphics professionally, these images are entirely hand-designed and hand-rendered.)
- Celtic Knotwork Images. By John Williams. Beautiful works of art, including 3D Celtic knot animations, and Celtic fractals.
- Celtic Mandalas. Complex, knotwork mandalas by Courtney Davis.
- Celtic Page. Includes a Celtic knot tattoo. From Twistress.
- Celtic Stone. Not your father's Celtic knotwork site. Includes a 3D virtual reality Celtic knotwork chat room and instructions for designing Celtic knots. From Celtic One Design. Celtic Knotwork. Computer-generated celtic knotwork images as if in stone. Very nice images. From Celtic Stone.
- Celtic Triple Knot. By Michael Dunn. Handsome bronze sculpture.
- Celtic Web Art. Buttons, bullets, clip art, animated GIFS, and so on. All designs by Karen Nicholas.
- Celtic Wood Sculpture. From Celtic Carver Woodworks.
- Computer Drawn Celtic Artwork. From Steven Abbott. If you run Windows, downloaded the program from the site.
- Cours d'enluminure celte à base d'entrelacs. An online course in designing Celtic knots, in English and French, by Christian Mercat.
- See Mercat's Java applet for making Celtic knots in your browser.
- Thomas Guionnet has implemented Mercat's algorithm in software for Windows. The screen shots are stunning.
- Craig's Knot Page. Apart from two Celtic knot graphics, not related to knots.
- Dave's Cave. Elegant and precise Celtic artwork from Dave Hall. He wrote the program (for Windows) on which he produced the designs, and sells it at the site.
- Pat Fish's Tattoo Santa Barbara. Photos of several Celtic knotwork tattoos.
- Fractals. Includes many Celtic knotwork images. From Jos Leys.
- Get Knotted. Beautiful Celtic knotwork from Bernadette Bultman-Fenlon.
- Gruhn's Knots. Celtic knot designs from Peter Gruhn.
- How to Draw Your Own Celtic Knots. By Drew Ivan. Clear and helpful instructions; great examples, one of which I use at the bottom of this page; see Artwork credits.
- Knots. A downloadable decorative font from Emerald City Fontwerks.
- Knot Fonts. Three knot fonts for Windows by Jack Keene.
- The Celtic Knot Font. Available in three styles (outline, filled, inverse) for both the Mac and PC. From ClanBadge.
- Knot Magic. A painting with Celtic motifs by Freya Owlsdottir. Not about magic tricks with knots, but casting spells. That kind of magic.
- Aidan Meehan's Celtic Design Series. Stunning. Not limited to Celtic knot designs. Public Domain Knotwork Graphics. Very nice Celtic knotwork by Josh Mittleman, including one I use on this page; see Artwork credits
- Bradley W. Schenck's Art. A very handsome site by a graphic artist. Contains some striking Celtic knot images and Celtic knot clip art and borders.
- Threads of Time. Clothing with stitched Celtic knotwork.
- Celtic Knot Design Chart. For making cross-stich patterns. From Stephanie Peters.
- Vintage Type Celtic Knot Font. A font for Mac and Windows of elegant Celtic knot designs to decorate a page, by Susan Townsend.
- Victoria Griebel Wright's Watercolors. Celtic knot paintings in a more florid style.
- The Art of Decorative Ropework. A brief, illustrated history of fancy knotting. From Richard Phelan. Also see some of Phelan's decorative knots (stills from his video).
- Dave Does Knot Work. Decorative knotting for sale from Dave Hedgepeth. No illustrations on the web site.
- Home Page for Fancy Knot Tyers. From Daniel Callahan. Also see his Museum of Fancy Knots, Fancy Knots From Around the World and knots for sale at eBay.
- Knot Swap. A site allowing artistic knotters to display and trade their creations. View the guestbook to see the action. From Martin Combs.
- Knots of Monicas Hemsida. Fancy knotting and macrame. Text in Swedish.
- Marlinespikes and Monkey's Fists. An exhibit of "Traditional Arts and Knot-Tying Skills of Maritime Workers" at the Michigan State University Museum. This is a traveling exhibit which your own local museum can rent (details on the site).
- Neat Knotwork. From Guy Lautard.
- A Perpetual Account of the International Knot Expo in Weert, Belgium. From Het Knoopeknauwertje, the Dutch knotting journal. The Expo opens Easter, 1999.
- Rope Art By Chief Charles Haywood. Decorative knotting, some for sale, by a man who calls himself the world's best (which may or may be true), and who thinks of himself as alone in his art (which is fortunately false). This link is now defunct, and the site does not seem to have reappeared at another URL. Can any readers help locate it?
- Some of My Knotwork. Fancy knotwork from S. Goodwin.
- Sword Knots. Like minature bell pulls, tied in fancy ribbon, leather, or cord hanging from the sword's sheath. From The Discriminating General.
- Turk's Head Rings Knots in precious metal by Loren Damewood.
- Celtic Knot Jewelry. Earrings, pendants, and rings from Talisman Jewelers and Metalsmiths.
- Celtic Jewelry. Pendants, earrings, brooches, and hairslides, from Triplemoon Witchware. The same site sells Celtic knotwork boxes, clocks, flasks, and frames.
- Fair Winds Design. Nautical and Celtic knots in precious metal and pottery from Grey Chisholm.
- Fisherman's Knot Ring. Ring by Ed Levin.
- Hayman Celtic Jewelry. Amulets, necklaces, torcs, earrings, brooches, and rings. From Michael Hayman.
- Knot Sculptures by Carlo H. Séquin. Elegant metal sculptures, mathematically inspired.
- The Lover's Knot Collection. Necklace, brooches, and earrings from Sheila Fleet, a Scottish jeweler.
- Nantucket Knot Bracelets. From Nantucketer.com.
- Symbolic Sculpture. Photograph of John Robinson's sculpture of a trefoil knot in a band of shining brass.
- Topological Sculptures. Knot theorists will enjoy thinking about how these intriguing sculptures are related to knots. By Brent Collins. Here's a second page of his work.
- Turk's Head Jewelry. Turk's Head rings, bracelets, brooches, earrings, and cuff links in gold, from A.G.A. Correa and Son.
- Basketry Information. From Alan Beebe.
- Braiding. Especially leather braiding for horse tack. From Gail.
- Braids and Weaves. From Lenny Henderson.
- The Pine Needle Group (on the art of coiling). From Pamela Zimmerman.
- Crochet. From Sandi Marshal for About.com.
- The Art of Gimp. Anonymous.
- Alissa's Lace Links. From Alissa.
- Victoria's Knitting Page. From Victoria Palay.
- Kumihimo. Japanese braiding. Anonymous.
- The Lace Ring. Links to the major sites in lacing. Anon.
- Lori's Lace Fairy Lace Pages. Very thorough. From Lori Howe.
- Macramé. From tses.
- Amanteca Artisans Macrame. Native American macramé. From Stephanie Stoermer.
- Chinese Macramé. From the Taiwan Government Information Office.
- The Craft of Echizen Mizuhiki. The Japanese art of making paper cordage for tying ceremonial knots in hair or gifts. Another Mizuhiki site.
- Iida Mizuhiki Association. Many color photos of stunning projects.
- Rugmaker's Homestead. From Rafter-four Designs and Diana Blake Gray.
- International String Figure Association. From Mark Sherman.
- String Figures From Around the World. From Richard Darsie.
- WWW Collection of Favorite String Figures. Anonymous.
- Tattle Tales: The Tatting Newsletter. From Teri Dusenbury.
- Tatting and Lacemaking Page. From trix.
General. Also see the sections on software for knot art and books on knot art.
Celtic knotwork. For Celtic knotwork jewelry and related 3D art, see the section on Metalware knots, below.
Fancy and decorative knots. Also see the discussion forums, software, videos, and books on knot art.
Metalwork knots
Related Arts. I only want to list a couple of links for each of these arts, to get you going. Please let me know about web pages on knot-related arts that I don't already cover. But for those that I do already cover, I'd only like to hear about pages that surpass those I list at introducing or organizing the field. Sorry, I don't pursue any of these arts or crafts and cannot answer questions about them. Alphabetical by art.
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- CMC Rescue Forum. On rope rescue and related rigging issues. From CMC Rescue. First-time users must register but there is no charge.
- The Guild's Knot Forum. From the International Guild of Knot Tyers. Covers all knotting topics. Apparently an email forum.
- KnotTyers. A Yahoo Club and discussion forum set up by the North American Branch of the International Guild of Knot Tyers. Supports graphics and email notification. Covers all knotting topics.
- Rec.crafts.knots is the
only usenet newsgroup devoted to knots. An unmoderated group approved
by voters on May 5, 1997. Covers all knotting topics.
- This group does not allow the posting of graphics files. See my Knot Gallery for the images that accompany the discussion.
- Rec.crafts.knots FAQ. Maintained by Peter W. Meek, who welcomes contributions. Under construction.
- Rope Making. A Yahoo discussion group on the craft.
- Rope Rescue Discussion. From the Search and Rescue Society of British Columbia (SARBC). Mostly on rope rescue. See the SARBC's page of related discussion forums.
- Spar Talk. From Brion Toss Rigging. Mostly on ship rigging, often with comments and answers from Brion Toss.
- The High School students who built the award-winning ThinkQuest website on Knot Theory originally had a discussion forum on the site. They have since closed it, perhaps from lack of traffic. There's a niche here, knot theorists.
- Fancy Knots Forum. From Delphi. Mostly on fancy knots. First-time users must register but there is no charge. This forum has disappeared. Does anyone know whether it relocated?
- The Knot Board. Administered by Daniel Callahan. Mostly on fancy and decorative knots. Supports the use of graphics.
Discussion of knot tying
Discussion of knot theory
Discussion of knot art
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