The Ashley Book of Knots

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The Ashley Book of Knots

The Ashley Book of Knots

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He describes each step simply and clearly in the text and has penned right alongside some 7000 drawings to make it still more graphic.

Home to William Golding, Sylvia Plath, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally Rooney, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Max Porter, Ingrid Persaud, Anna Burns and Rachel Cusk, among many others, Faber is proud to publish some of the greatest novelists from the early twentieth century to today. If you appreciate resourcefulness, art, sailing, camping, flying, needlecraft, knitting, crochet, history, physics, tenacity, dedication, collecting, music, carpentry, or anything really. The Knotting Matters issues cited in the above Knot News article are: KM1, KM28, KM31, KM32, and KM33. 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. The original list of revisions submitted to the publisher is believed to have been lost, but many had been collected from a series of articles in Knotting Matters, the Guild's quarterly publication.

Published in 1944, so there's a lot of interesting history in it as well as lots of fascinating information on useful and decorative knots.

Ashley has devoted eleven years to writing this book, and it is based on forty years of looking for, trying out, and thinking up new knots. These have been collected and collated by Geoffrey Budworth with the help of other members of the International Guild of Knot Tyers. Annie Proulx, with its descriptions and illustrations of various knots providing the chapter headings. Some of the illustrations are a bit hard to follow; updated diagrams would make this book the essential reference it deserves to be. What it does not have is information about modern synthetic ropes and specialized knots that have been developed for them.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. Featuring every practical knot, what it looks like, who uses it, where it comes from and how to tie it; with 7000 drawings representing over 3800 knots. Precisely named and classified (some new ones for the first time officially), they can be easily found in the big index. But it's so much more than just an enyclopedia of knots; it's also a glimpse into the history of their use and utility.



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