What is it that you want the knot to do?
We use it to tie two threads together, that they don't come apart when
tugged. Although, lately I've just done an overhand knot with two
threads, and that seems sufficient - the weaver's knot, aka sheet
bend, is most useful for tying two threads of differing
Yes there is a trick and it makes a difference. With one end you make an
underhand with a loop. The other end must be placed into the loop in the
correct direction. I usually forget and test my knot, if it slips out, I
put it into the loop from the other direction.
Sometimes, the thread is ve
Google offers many tutorials for the weavers' knot and variations.
Here is my favourite
http://www.theropepeople.com/WeaversKnot.html
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Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west
coast of Canada
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Charlotte Moore
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Subject: [lace] Weavers knot
Is there some kind of trick for making a weavers knot work?
Charlotte
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Bev,
the weaver's knot, aka sheet
bend, is most useful for tying two threads of differing thickness.
Although there's been much talk over the years about the Weaver's
Knot, I've never really bothered with it because I've always had my
own knot which works. Yes, my knot was the Sheet Bend!!!
I learned to make the sheet bend as a Girl Guide around the same era, and yes
it was always for ropes of unequal thickness, which is why I find it strange
that weavers/lacemakers use it to join two similar threads. I tend to use a
reef knot for lace threads, except when I'm joining onto a very
Brenda,
Pa taught me to make a loop (uncrossed) and then using the other
thread I had to say: "the rabbit comes out of the hole, around behind
the stump and then back down the hole again".
The things we remember!!
David
The Girl Guide way of making the sheet bend is to make a loop with
th
But Jane - a clove hitch bears absolutely no resemblance to a sheet bend!
A clove hitch is simply 2 loops placed one on top of the other (in
opposite directions) and then slid over the top of a stick, pole or
post. It has an entirely different function.
David in Ballarat
I think that's why
At 01:19 AM 22/02/2011, Karen M. Zammit Manduca wrote:
With me it was the snake that came out of the well! But that is a
bowline not a weaver's knot.
Quite right Karen. It was a bowline knot which took off the tip of
grandfather's middle finger. But that's another story.
It should have been
Alexandra Stillwell"s "Illustrated Dictionary of Lacemaking" has a good
illustration and description of a weavers' knotit's page 232 of the
latest edition.
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
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From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of
Cha
On 2/20/11 1:14 PM, Jane Partridge wrote:
. . . what we were told was a sheet bend was in fact a
clove hitch,
GCK!! Confusing a bend with a hitch is like confusing a
match with a pair of chopsticks!
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Joy Beeson, KC9TOX
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http://home.comcast.net/~debee
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