Posted by mooreds 15 hours ago
Funny thing is, if you don't know how to tie it, you probably just notice how it looks when it's done (almost exactly like the granny bowtie) so you (understandably) assume it's just a different method to arrive at the same result, like how bunny-ears and rabbit-goes-around-the-tree do. Of course it's not the same result at all.
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That strikes a chord for me. In grade school my teachers could not distinguish between these perspectives, for the standard shoelace knot. I found their method stupid, and they thought my method was wrong. This was but one of many lessons that helped me to learn to think for myself.
Years later I found out that my new knot was not new and that I had simply re-invented an existing knot, which appears elsewhere under two different names:
“Double Slip Knot” (#1219) in “The Ashley Book of Knots” by Clifford Ashley;
“Seaman's Shoelace Knot” (or “Seemännische Schuhbandschleife”), which appears in the German book “Knoten, Spleißen, Takeln” by Erich Sondheim.Besides, I'm pretty sure Ian has done a lot more to spread the knowledge of this particular knot than anyone else in history.
Probably time to drop another coin in Ian's tip jar too.