HomeView Cart
Dover HomeStore DirectoryCustomer Service
Dover Publications
Free Samples
New ReleasesFREE SAMPLESMY ACCOUNTDover's Safe Shopping GuaranteeSave with Free Shipping on orders of $50 or more
Search
Practical and Ornamental Knots
by George Russell Shaw

ISBN: 0486460207
Dover Publications Price: $8.95
click here to see this book


From the best way to secure a package to crafting the timeless beauty of a Celtic knot, this handy reference is the definitive guide to knotting. Hand-drawn illustrations offer accurate instructions for tying scores of knots, including those used in braids, hitches, macramé tassels, toggles, nets, and lassos. 193 full-page, black-and-white illustrations.
Reprint of Knots, Practical and Ornamental, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1933.

See Sample Pages! Click here to look inside this book.

Table of Contents for Practical and Ornamental Knots
Anglers knots
tying flies
leaders
Anglers loops
Artillery knot
Barrel knot
Bell & Buckle
Bends
Book cover
Bowline
Braid
Buntline Hitch
Butterfly
Button
Carrick Bend
Caterpillar
Catspaw
Celtic knots
Chain braid
Clove Hitch
Carbber's knot
Crown Braid
Crown knot
Diamond Hitch
Diamond knot
Double interlacing
Double Loop
Dragon fly
False Braid
Farmer's Loop
Figure of eight knot
Flat Braid
Flower knots
Four-in-hand tie
Girdle
Granny
Grommet
Hackamore tie
Half Carrick
Half Granny
Half Hitch
Halters
Hangmans knot
Heaving line
Heraldry
Hitches
Honda
Interlacing
construction
Inverted Wall knot
Japanese knots
Jar sling
Jury knot
Ladders
Lanyard
Larks head
Lasso
Lifting Hitch
Lineman's knot
Loop
Loop & half Hitch
Macramé knots
Magnus Hitch
Man rope knot
Marline knot
Matthew Walker
double
Miller's knot
Mooring
Netting
Noose
Oblique Bends
Overhand knot
Packages
Polygonal knots
triangular
quadrangular
hexagonal
octagonal
decagonal
dodecagonal
Portuguese Bowline
Rabbit's Head
Reef knot
Reeving line Bend
Rope yarn knot
Rugs
Sack knots
Selvagee
Sennit
Serving
Sheepshank
Sheet Bend
Shoe string knot
Slings
Slip noose
Spanish Bowline
Splicing
Square
Star knot
Stopper knots
Success knot
Surgeon's knot
Tassells
Tatting
Temple Ornaments
Toggle
Trefoil
Trick Braid
Trick knots
Turck's head (triangular, quadrangular, pentagonal)
Twin Wall knot
Twists
Two Half Hitches
Wall knot
Watch Fob
Water knot
Water Loop
Weavers knot
Whip Lash knot
Whipping

Join the Dover Family | Track Your Order | Your Account | Shipping Rates and Policies | Returns | Customer Service | Free Samples |About Dover | Privacy Notice | Terms of Use |Join Our Staff |Free Catalogs