Practical Knots and Ropework : A complete guide to ropework, knots, and netmaking, for boating, fishing, camping, mountain climbing, etc. ... including the specialized techniques required for both natural fiber and synthetic ropes
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This thoroughly modern guide avoids historical applications in favor of styles in use today, many of them tailored to new synthetic ropemaking materials. It untangles the secrets behind basic, joining, constricting, fisherman's, and climber's knots, as well as tying loops, rings, and hitches. More than 290 diagrams appear throughout the text.
TitlePractical Knots and Ropework : A complete guide to ropework, knots, and netmaking, for boating, fishing, camping, mountain climbing, etc. ... including the specialized techniques required for both natural fiber and synthetic ropes
Author
EditionFirst edition
Place of publicationPennsylvania
PublisherTab Books
Year of publication1980
Pagination406 p.
IllustrationsIllus., black and white drawings and photographs
Dimensions12.9 x 21 cm
Materialbook
Class numberVM533 .B543 1980
ISBN0-8306-1237-8
NotesThe International Guild of Knot Tyers Collection
No. 1237 in Tab Books series of publications
Signed by the author
No. 1237 in Tab Books series of publications
Signed by the author
Subjectknots and splices, ropes