Table of Contents
Introduction 6
Some tips of the trade 10
Knot Craft
Shackle release lanyard in Portuguese sennit 22
Portuguese sennit bracelet 24
Simple key ring/earring/bell rope 26
Deluxe key ring 29
Pyramid key ring 32
Bell rope worked with six ends 34
Bell rope worked with eight ends 37
Tricolour bellrope 40
Simple side fender 42
Side fender using the crown sennit 45
Hitching over a plastic fender 48
Bow fender 51
Ring fender 56
RNLI-style bow pudding 59
Button fender 64
Rope ladders 67
Simple lanyard 70
Fancy lanyard 73
Bosun's chair/swing 76
Rope handrails 78
Cat-ó-nine-tails 80
Tiller/boat hook covering 83
Binocular strap 86
Covering a wheel 88
Belts 91
Grommets for quoits, blocks and sea chest beckets 94
Pair of fancy spliced chest beckets 97
Turk's heads for decoration or napkin rings 99
Knot boards 104
Monkey's fist light pull 106
Monkey's fist door stop 108
Sailor's whisk 111
Swabs 113
Baggy wrinkle 116
Bowsprit net 119
Dog leads 122
Jib shackle 125
Rope Mats
Things you can do to mats 130
Flat three-lead, four-bight Turk's head mat 132
Ocean and prolong mats 134
Thump mat 137
Kringle mat 140
Hitched oval mat 142
Oblong deck mat 145
Mat designs that can be grown bigger 148
Oblong pointed mat 153
Large round mat with six hitches on the outside 155
Jens Jensen's big round mat with twelve hitches on the outside 158
Rounded corner large complex rectangular mat 160
Sennit mats 162
Sheila's star mat 166
Further reading 170
Useful suppliers 171
The International Guild of Knot Tyers 172
Acknowledgements 172
Conversion table 173
Index 174
