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KNOTTING MATTERS 56 - JULY 1997 40 Bowline on a Bight Terry Ridings 40 Dolly Knot Dr ISSUE 56 JULY 1997 ISSN 0959-2881 KNOTTING MATTERS 11 11~ iiiiiiiiiiiiiii THE QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL GUILD OF KNOT TYERS ISSUE NO 56 SUMMER· JULY 1997 PRESIDENT Des Pawson HON VICE PRESIDENT Dr Vaughan Jones FRS PAST PRESIDENTS Percy Blandford · Geoffrey Budworth · Eric Franklin · Jan Vos · Stuart Grainger · Glad Findley Guild Annual Subscription rates: SECRETARY: Payable by cash/cheque Eurocard Nigel Harding Mastercard or VISA 16 Egles Drove Juniors £4 Uckfield Seniors £14 SUSSEX TN22 2BY Families £19 Tel: 01825 760425 Corporate By arrangement Taxpayers in the UK - we would EDITORS: prefer a covenanted subscription. Lonnie & Margaret Boggs 78 Marlborough Avenue Advertising rates: KIDLINGTON Members Non Members Oxford OX5 2AP Full page £32 £49 Tel: 01865 378104 Half page £19 £22 Quarter page £10 £15 Except as otherwise indicated, copyright For inclusion in one issue only in Knotting Matters is reserved to the International Guild of Knot Tyers IGKT Submission dates for inclusion of articles 1995. Copyright in members' articles KM57 06 SEPTEMBER 1997 published in Knotting Matters is KM58 22 NOVEMBER 1997 reserved to the authors and permission to KM59 07 MARCH 1998 reprint should be sought from the author KM60 07 JUNE 1998 and editor. All sources of quotations printed in Knotting Matters are acknowledged. KNOTTING MATTERS CONTENTS 04 Secretary's Blotter Nigel Harding 08 Member,s Profile Dave Pusill 09 Amendments to Article John C011stable "Simple Maths Help Turksheads" 10 Guidelines (Fire Safety Lines) Colin Grundy 16 Loops on a Bight Willem Taal 16 To Make a Rattan Dog Willeke van der Ham 18 Further Notes From The American West Michael Storch 22 Millennium Project Stuart Grainger 24 Side By Side Bowlines "The Endeavour" John Halifax 25 Simple Celtics Brian Jarrett 26 A Peep In To Knotted Fabrics Stuart Grainger 27 Flemish AGM Report Philippe Casteleyn 28 Stuart's 'Reef Knot' Stuart Grainger 29 Split Ply Braiding Ken Higgs 31 West Country vs. Common Whipping Percy Blandford 31 Bargee's Eye Splice Richard Thomas 32 IGKT Melbourne Australia Report Darren Samphier 33 Book List Proposed Bill Smothers 33 Spherical Turk's Heads Ettrick Thomson 34 Member's Profile Jim Doyle 35 Wooden Boat Festival Report Jens Gunne Johansen 35 Captain Fred's Coffee Table Wally Scott, & Blanche Sawyer 36 Knotted Chess Set Stuart Grainger 36 Guild Headquarters ? Rolf Kvicklund 37 Stuart's Chess Set Made in 1978 Stuart Grainger 38 Personal Book Recommendations John Heapy 38 Roman Pillar Dennus Murphy 39 The French Yawl 'Mutin' Remembered Tom Long 39 New Rules For Maki~g Turksheads Jessie Coleman 2 KNOTTING MATTERS 56 - JULY 1997 40 Bowline On A Bight Terry Ridings 40 Dolly Knot Dr. Ian Crabbe 41 Concerning Covering Knots Gary Sessions 41 The "Speir Knot" (Quick Release Hitch) David Scarisbrick 43 IGKT 15th AGM, T.S. Blake, Bridgwater Lonnie Boggs 56 IGKT Diary leff Wyatt PUBLICATION 1ST MAY '97 KNOTTED FABRICS by Stuart E. Grainger. 115 drawings 48 photographs A manual oflittle known knotting techniques for making mats, covers, baskets etc. with advice on tools, frames, materials and sources ofsupply. Published by the Author Stuart E. Grainger, Cuckamus End" North Leigh, Witney, Oxfordshire OX8 6RR England. HARDBACK - £9 POST FREE KNOTIING MATIERS 56 - JULY 1997 3 now organised a (teetotal) proof reading team for future editions. The Millennium is now nearly six months closer since I wrote I am sitting here looking wist­ last, and so far not a single sug­ fully out at the sun slowly set­ gestion has come from the ting on the garden. This will be membership. I console myself the last Blotter that I shall be with the thought that you are all writing from this room, as waiting for the warmer weather, Sylvia and I are soon to move to when, to the sound of leather a new house in East Sussex, in against willow, the ink will the South of England. It is with flow a little easier across the some sadness that we are mov­ page. The Council have floated ing away from East Anglia but a number of ideas, including a such is life. Please note the new 'Big Meeting' with lots of address and telephone number, members present; an at least its shorter than the last 'Extravaganza' type event; one. 'Circulating Knot Boards' made by one individ­ My apologies for not appearing ual/group/country, passed on to in the last KM, but like many of and displayed by another; you, I was stricken with various Twenty Bell Ropes (or any strains of flu and other unpleas­ other type of knot) from twenty antness and was laid low for so countries for a twentieth birth­ long that I missed the deadline. day; Two Thousand Turks Whilst still in the apologetic Heads for the year 2000; a one mood,Sfhe 1997 Membership week 'Knotting Orgy', a Magi­ Handbook did have rather a lot cal Mystery Knotting Tour, and of unexpected errors. This was a an Around the World 24hr combination of the method by Communications based knotting which this edition was pro­ event. Any, or all of these duced, and the quality of the would need the support of the proof reading, which was done men1bership in either organising three times, and took me about or supporting such events. ten hours each time. We have Hopefully there are some of you 4 KNOTTING MATTERS - JUNE 1997 who can develop or organise the Guild, and has served on the one of these, or perhaps even Council from the very begin­ have a better idea than any of ning. His presence will be these. greatly missed, although I sus­ pect like other founder mem­ In KM54 I used the expression bers, he will watch quietly from The InterKnot. I will mention it the wings and will soon tell us again - The InterKnot - What is if he feels that we are straying it? Why is Ken Yalden so fur­ from the straight and narrow. tive, and what is he up to? Watch this space (or KY him­ For some years it has been cus­ self). tomary for the Retiring Presi­ dent to have the privilege of Last weekend I attended the nominating his successor, and AGM at Bridgwater, and what a so Des nominated Robert Chis­ wonderful event that was. Only naIl, who is a well known and one thing marred the day, and highly respected Canadian knot that was the formal business. tyer. The nomination was sup­ The Council and the Hon Sec in ported wholeheartedly by the particular, have been taken to Council and an impressive tes­ task about this, and are looking timonial was given by another at ways of improving their per­ former President. Robert was formance for future meetings. duly elected by secret ballot of Hopefully you will notice the those members present at the difference at the Autumn meet­ meeting. ing. Other than that, the meeting This year saw the departure of was a great success with over a Lonnie from Council. Lonnie hundred in attendance, sixty of puts in a tremendous amount of whom stayed on for dinner. Our work on our behalf as Editor of most sincere thanks go to Denis KM, and was finding the double Murphy and his team for such commitment just too much. He an enjoyable weekend. will be missed on the Council, At the AGM, Des Pawson re­ and we shall be losing the direct tired as President, and Council contact between the Editor and Member of sixteen years. In fact the Council, which proved so Des was a founder member of useful when Lonnie first took KNOTTING MATTERS - JUNE 1997 5 on the role. David Walker was tion to this effect was carried by elected to take his place on the a large majority, with four Council. against, and three abstentions. For those who pay by bankers At the AGM, the question of order, (having only just sorted travelling expenses for Council them all out) it will be neces­ Members attending Council sary to make the appropriate Meetings was raised. Although adjustments in time for the 1998 entitled to such out of pocket payments. Those due between expenses, the Council wished to now and the end of December have the endorsement of the 1997 remain at the current level. membership before any claims were made. A motion to this ef­ Whilst still on the subject of fi­ fect was carried by a large ma­ nance, the Treasurer has asked jority, with only five against me to mention the 'Deed of and ten abstentions. Covenant'. This is a means by Following the presentation of which the Guild, as a Registered the Accounts, the Council, Charity, can claim a refund having due regard for the from the Inland Revenue of the Guilds immediate and future fi­ amount of income tax you have nancial commitments, found it already paid on your subscrip­ necessary to recommend to the tion. Last year we claimed Membership that subscriptions nearly £450 which is a signifi­ be increased by £2, for Adult cant contribution to the Guild's members from January of coffers. If you are a UK tax next year. It was pointed out payer and have not yet cove­ that the subscriptions have been nanted your subs, please give pegged at their present level me a call and I will send you a since 1991, and despite much form. improved housekeeping, and now satisfactory capital re­ This years AGM saw the un­ serves, it was time to consider a veiling of the Guilds new flag. modest increase, rather than This is a full size flag, and was delay and need a much greater flown magnificently from the increase at a later date.
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