The Ashley Book of Knots

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With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics. More knots then the internet, honestly in a decision between referencing the internet or this book, I would look in the book first! Although the drawings are clean and simple, I am especially thick-headed when it comes to knots, which is why I am reading this book. The edition with the the cover illustration of the sailor on the pier is hilarious if you know what knot he's tying: a handcuff knot.

Precisely named and classified (some new ones for the first time officially), they can be easily found in the big index.His ruling passions were marine painting and knot-tying, on which he was one of the world's leading authorities. His ruling passions were marine painting and knot-tying, on which he was one of the world’s leading authorities. Annie Proulx, with its descriptions and illustrations of various knots providing the chapter headings. There is obviously nothing in the book about the synthetic ropes that have come out since it was written, or the knots that were developed to deal with the slipperiness of those ropes. On a gray day when I'm in no mood for much I can open ABoK to an arbitrary page and feel myself decompress as I browse.

Image shows bag lanyards, yoke rope, manrope and two Chinese priest cords on one page and blocks, deadeyes, bull's-eyes, hearts, thimbles, etc. The Knotting Matters issues cited in the above Knot News article are: KM1, KM28, KM31, KM32, and KM33. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. It also provides a sort of sociological insight into how people worked not so long ago, too, with knots specific to stevedores, teamsters, movers, bakers, fishermen and others who once depended on knots but to a great extent no longer do so. As this book was first published in 1944, there are some more recently discovered knots missing from this huge volume, such as the Versatackle knot and the Zeppelin bend.This is the definitive reference on the subject and well worth adding to ANY library, public, private, or personal. He describes each step simply and clearly in the text and has penned right alongside some 7000 drawings to make it still more graphic.