Knots Ties And Splices A Handbook For Seafarers Travellers And All Who Use Cordage With Historical Heraldic And Practical Notes Primary Sour PDF Download

Excerpt from Knots, Ties and Splices: A Handbook for Seafarers, Travellers, and All Who Use Cordage; With Historical, Heraldic, and Practical Notes Knots? What? Knots? There are love knots, matrimonial knots, Gordian Knots. These are figurative. There is the Stafford Knot, the Bouchier Knot, the Lacy Knot, the Henage Knot, the Dacre Knot, the Harrington Knot (which is not a knot at all), as well as the Wake Knot. These are heraldic. There is the Monkey Knot, the Wind Knot, the Peruvian Knot, and conjurors' knots. These are fancy knots. There are weavers knots, builders' knots, sailors knots, reef knots, fishermen's knots. These are real and useful knots. But they are only twisted cord. Cui bono? What's the use? Let a few personal examples suffice. Thirty years ago a lad was standing in a garden gazing at a surging mass of coloured silk, which heaved to and fro over the heads of a dense crowd. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.