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“WORK” HANDBOOKS

KNOTTING AND SPLICINGROPES AND CORDAGE


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KNOTTING
AND SPLICING
ROPES AND CORDAGE

WITH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS AND DIAGRAMS

EDITED BY
PAUL N. HASLUCK
EDITOR OF “WORK” AND “BUILDING WORLD”
AUTHOR OF “HANDBOOKS FOR HANDICRAFTS,” ETC. ETC.


PHILADELPHIA
DAVID McKAY, Publisher
610, SOUTH WASHINGTON SQUARE
1907


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PREFACE.

This Handbook contains, in a form convenient foreveryday use, a comprehensive digest of the informationon Knotting and Splicing Ropes and Cordage,scattered over more than twenty thousand columns ofthe journals it is my fortune to edit—andsupplies concise information on the details ofthe subjects on which it treats.

Readers who may desire additional informationrespecting special details of the matters dealt within this Handbook, or instructions on kindred subjects,should address a question to The Editor of WORK,La Belle Sauvage, London, E.C., so that it may beanswered in the columns of that journal.

P. N. HASLUCK.

La Belle Sauvage, London.


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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. —Introduction: Rope Formation9
II. —Simple and Useful Knots 15
III. —Eye Knots, Hitches, and Bends 24
IV. —Ring Knots and Rope Shortenings 43
V. —Ties and Lashings 59
VI. —Fancy Knots 66
VII. —Rope Splicing 89
VIII. —Working Cordage 96
IX. —Hammo
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