A knowledge and mastery of tying knots is essential for anyone who spends time in the outdoors. And, sure, when faced with certain tasks that require knot-tying, you might be able to get away with ...

This classic knot is useful in situations where you're connecting two pieces of rope. You can always add more pieces of rope, and this knot can be... This classic knot is useful in situations where ...

Struggling to tie ropes securely? The Carrick Bend is your answer. We’ll show you exactly how to tie it, why it’s so strong, ...

Take the ends of the rope and make an "X" with the left end of the rope placed over the right. Cross the "new" right end around the rope to make an overhand knot. Take the right and left ends and put ...

Animated Knots is a perfect site for learning everything about knots: how to tie them, what they’re for, and how to choose the best knot for a specific job. The site lists 196 knots for ropes, straps, ...

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The bowline is an ancient knot. It dates so far back historians can’t even pinpoint who tied it first, but what makes it so impressive is that it’s as important and useful today as it was to mariners, ...

Pity the double bowline--it's gotten a terrible rap.starting in 1989 when Lynn Hill took a 70-foot groundfall when her partly tied bowline pulled free of her harness. But, still, for decades thiis was ...

MIT researchers develop a mathematical model to predict a knot’s stability with the help of color-changing fibers. Photo by Joseph Sandt Knots are some of the oldest and most-used technologies that ...

Learn three different ways to tie a bowline, the King of Knots. We will show you how to tie a bowline knot diagram. The bowline (pronounced bo-lin) is the single most important knot for all outdoors ...