Des Pawson’s Knot Craft and Rope Mats
Looks interesting, but I now have a set direction, that said I thought a look at the library might be fun.
Not high on the list for libraries?
I can request it from my local library...
Google has a Kindle version with some previews and I noticed half dozen references to the constrictor knot?
“I’ve seen some very cool bellropes and wouldn’t mind making one.”
My sister the artist works in that direction, mostly tapestry, textile arts, macrame...even sold some for thousands $$$.
The dealer keeps HALF! And she puts in hundreds of hours.
Happy ending, she became a creative director for an ad agency, an artist managing artist, must have been good at it, paid well.
A good thought, maybe I can get her interested in my project.
I need all the help I can get.
” Can you imagine what the old timers would’ve thought of today’s hi-tech ropes?”
In the 1981 printing of Marlinspike, he addresses some of the newer products and calls them superior. Pg 115.
A puzzle you might enjoy:
https://www.ringofsaturn.com/games/stringandringpuzzle.php
I have sprung this puzzle on many, many friends and coworkers. In fifty plus years only TWO solved it quickly.
An old aunt of mine and a very sharp fellow student.
At work, a group of a dozen graduate engineers/PEs requested the solution after a few days.
I too had asked for the solution after a few nights.
Not surprised. It's the first knot he covers and he's hugely impressed by it, because of the number of uses it has and probably also because of the number of ways to tie it, midrope, endrope, etc. Browsing through his projects, I noticed several that used the constrictor as a tool to help make the object in question. Need to close up a burlap bag full of coffee beans quickly and securely? The constrictor knot is your boy. That's what my first knot book said. :)
Cool website: https://www.animatedknots.com
First saw the string and ring puzzle when I was 14yo or so. Solved it within a couple of minutes with a whole slew of witnesses looking on. They all thought I was a genius. What I didn't tell them was I couldn't solve it the next day to save my life. Just got lucky the first time.