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Knotting Matters 41 ISSUE 41 LATE 1992 ISSN 0959-2881 KNOTTING MATTERS 11 11 THE QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER of THE INTERNATION AL GUILD OF KNOT TYERS ISSUE No. 41 OCTOBER 1992 PRESIDENT Stuart GRAINGER Hon. VICE PRESIDENT Dr Vaughan JONES PAST PRESIDENTS Percy BLANDFORD - Geoffrey BUDWORTH - Eric FRANKLIN - Jan VOS GUILD ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: SECRETARY (RENEWABLE 1st JANUARY) Nigel HARDING 3 Wallnut Tree Meadow Stoncruml Aspel Jtmiors (Under 16 years old) £ 4.00 STOWMARKET Seniors £14.oo Suffolk IPI46DF Families £19.oo Tcl: 0449 - 711121 Corporate By Ammgement Taxpayers in the UK - We would prefer a coven.mted subscription, as we can then reclaim tax paid. EDITOR Except as otherwise indicated, copyright in Knotting Gordon PERRY Matters is reserved to the International Guild of Knot 171 London Road Tyers IGKT 1992. Copyright in members' articles HORNDEAN published in Knotting Matters is reserved to the Hampshire authors and permL'ision to reprint should be sought P080HH from the author and editor. All sources of quotations Tcl: 0705 - 592808 printed in Knotting Matters arc acknowledged. The IGKT is a UK REGISTERED CHARITY #802153 a visit cut short to sail to the Med EDITORIAL supporting the UN effort in the Adriatic. I do hope things are going to quieten down 10 years ago Issue 1 of KNOTTING now, however even if I do have more time MATIERS contained some interesting to put future editions together, my deepest articles to a membership of some 45 concern now is the lack of material . people; that means the majority of you Please do not leave it to the the few regular have missed those articles. Therefore, with contributors, if you have never sllhmitted the forbearance of those of you who still an article then now is the time. I posses ten year old copies of KM, I intend particularly need articles which are original to repeat articles from No.l in NoAl, and stern from your interests either directly No.2 in NoA2 et seq.... or indirectly in knotting. J regret that of late I have been so tied up with work and away from home that this edition of KM l... very late, it seemed that WELCOME TO every time I tried to tinbh it off I was off to sea again. THE GUILD One recent voyage across the Atlantic ended in Norfolk V.A. where I wa... able to take a weekend break before flying home. Barry BOND Cornwall UK I was able to travel inland to the Shenan­ Arild OANES Norway doah Valley and the Blue Ridge Mountains Capt HOLT Somerset UK of Virginia. Driving back to the coa<,1 I William DURRENT Essex UK stopped at a "Rest Area" where I was Clive PEXTERI York... UK hartened to see a mini-bus full of Scout", D PUSILL Somerset UK all with a length of line in hand (until they Chris & Lauren HALHOIT Ohio USA got to the Cola machine!) practicing knot". AIjan BIJL The Netherlands Next stop was the '"Mariners Museum" at Mr & Mrs D BRADY Hant" UK Newport News, to see what they had to Larry STILES Wa...hington USA offer in the way of knot related museum W.E. STEPHENS Cornwall UK pieces - sadJy few...a sailmakers bench Karoly CSEBFALVI Budapc'St and tooL" with a copy of Ashley open at Emil PETROV Zimbabwe the tooL" page was all that I could fmd, James MILNER Worcs UK then, Eurica!! book" galore in the shop A KITSON UK (and in the library I gather but it was Neil MUNDY York... UK clOSed..SWlday) and the prices compared Royden BOWLES London UK with what we pay in the UK made Richard WARE Australia purchase irresb'table...my knothook library James MITCHELL Hert'i UK grew by about 100% that day! Peter HUGHES Kent UK Next s10p was The Netherlands, 2 LETTERS Don WOODS writes: edition pull some odd thought,> together ­ Re the "Thumb Knot/Overhand Knot" Round Wire Ropes and Flat Wire Ropes ­ (KM39), may I try and throw some light the first "for inclined planes, mines, on the subject. collieries, ship's standing rigging, etc." I too wa" baftled by the requirement of the and the other "for pit'>' hoist", etc." Guide Knotters badge for (a) Thumb Knot Thi'>, I strongly suspect, is a land"man's and Cb) Overhand Knot. After much book of knotting, more suited to the dust, correspondence with "The Guides Asso­ toil, darkness and sheer terrors of the coal ciation" it transpired that the Overhand mining trade. Knot should have read "Double Overhand There's nothing wrong with that - this Knot". What the Guides call a Double book with ifs Scottish puhlishers and Overhand Knot i" in fact the Overhand suitably salty title taken possibly from Loop (Ashley #1046). Bowling Bay on the Firth of Clyde point" Further to this may I offer thi" explanation to a rather nice a.,sociation of ideas - some - The Thumb Knot i" indeed an overhand harmless nonsense. knot but an overhand knot i" not neces­ Bowling Bay wa" the western ternlinll<; for sarily a Thumb Knot. Tie an Overhand the Forth and Clyde canal and must have Knot loosely in a cord around an object; seen coal brought down from the pit,> of this i" a Half Knot. It requires a further Airdrie and Monkland<;, east of Glasgow. knot to complete. If you tie an overhand There was a steam powered canal inclined knot in a pie~e of cord and pull it up tight plane at Blackhill. on the Monkland you have a knot in it" own right Le. branch canal - the ftrst built of it" kind. It Thwnb Knot. I hope this i<; of interest to had a pair of two inch steel ropes coiled readers and clears up this problem for on a pair of counter-rotating sixteen foot those involved in teaching Guides and diameter drums. The drums rotated one Brownies. turn for twelve strokes of the engine, hauling boats up the incline in tanks of water. Now. suppose for a moment that the 000000000 howline knot were to he Tom Bowling's knot...(which wc accept it is NOT)...early Robert JACKSON writes... plans for the Forth and Clyde canal were OCHE AYE TOM BOWUNG to end it nearer Glasgow at Dalmuirhurn­ (Or.. .A Dalmuirburnfoot By Any Other foot. Name) Would the name have stllck? Before the Hon. Editor decides to dose the R.L.J. correspondem:e about Tom Bowling I have 3 MAGNUS - THE VIKING? By Pieter van de GRIEND The second is about the afonnentioned In thi<; small note I would like to add a hitch. Des wrote to say that he had few comments to remarks made by Des observed the hitch being used a lot in PAWSON in KM40 p9. Des suggested that Sweden. I can back him up by saying that there might be a link between the Rolling it has been used and still i<; being used a Hitch (Ashley #1735) being called Magnus great deal in the small open boats on the Hitch and the Vikings. It is about that link Faroe Islands. This i<; of interest because I would like to make two comments. the Faroese are direct descendant<; of The first relates to rope samples excavated Vikings. Moreover due to appalling clima­ from the Oseberg and other ships. To my tic conditions, there i<; very little sailing knowledge and that at the Viking Museum being done around the island<;. Hence the in Roskilde nobody has ever written Faroese have not developed their boat<; for anything about knot<; in the fmd<;. I only sailing, but for rowing. Doing so they have know of two scanty sources illustrating left the summer rig intact. One of the some of them; an eyesplice, a Becket Bend knot<; used for tensioning the stays is the and Overhand Knots. However there i<; no Rolling Hitch. It is shown in fig.l, which doubt that Viking cordage technology wa<; is reproduced from Maria Eide Petrersen's well developed. In fact they had regular booklet Snoklar (1982). Fig 2 i<; a method trade routes between Greenland's West I have been shown by Sune Joensen from coa<;t and the great fair of Koln in the island of Sandoy in 1987. Germany around 1200 supplying the Euro­ AN OPEN BOAT'S RUNNING pean market<; with Svardreip. Rope made & from Narwal hide, known for it<; immense STANDING RIGGING. The drawings in Maria Eide Petersen's natural strength and used extensively in rigging of Viking ships. Snoklar are a bit unclear or in the case of 4 the knot called SpelUli printed upside down. HINTS & TIPS To tension the standing rigging they used the construction to he descrihed bdow. Here the end of the stay is led through an Chcis EATON writes from Switzerland.. eyebolt on the gunwhalc and pulled taut. A Half Hitch is taken around the standing When working on a pien:ed table or sketch, part a little up the stay, This hitch is life can be made much easier if the spilled, making the working cnd to lose it.. drawing is coloured and the ends of the Half Hitch, giving the standing end cords used dyed the same colour. I tlnd felt slightly more ten..ion and jamming the tip pens best for this. The idea can be working end whkh is taken through the enhanced by the use of coloured pins when loop and up, slipped arOlmd the stay as pinning out the strand". For onc such L shown in Fig 2 on the previous page. a" the procedure is invaluahle for at least I know where each strand goes right lip to WHAT KNOT? the last moment (then it all goes wrong because I can't get thc teno.;ion right!!), By Ed - Cnn:.
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