Guild Supplies Price List 2004 Item Price Knot Charts Full Set of 100 charts £10.00 Individual charts £0.20 Rubber Stamp IGKT Member, with logo £4.00 (excludes stamp pad) Guild Tie Long, dark blue with Guild Logo in gold £8.95 Badges - all with Guild Logo Blazer Badge £1.00 Enamel Brooch £2.00 Windscreen Sticker £1.00 Certificate of Membership £2.50 Parchment membership scroll Signed by the President and Hon Sec For mounting and hanging Cheques payable to IGKT, or simply send your credit card details PS Don’t forget to allow for postage Supplies Secretary: - Bruce Turley 19 Windmill Avenue, Rubery, Birmingham B45 9SP email [email protected] Telephone: 0121 453 4124 Knotting Matters Magazine of the International Guild of Knot Tyers Issue No. 85 President: Jeff Wyatt Secretary: Nigel Harding Editor: Colin Grundy Front Cover - Ditty bag by Barry Brown Back Cover - Chest becket by Yngve Website: www.igkt.net Edell Submission dates for copy KM 86 07 JAN 2005 IN THIS ISSUE KM 87 07 APR 2005 The Isolated Knotter 6 The Six Knot Challenge 8 Start with an Overhand Knot 9 The Vice Versa Bend & the Reever Knot 10 The Petal Knot 13 The IGKT is a UK Registered Charity No. 802153 Knotmaster 14 Pioneers of the Patent Rope Except as otherwise indicated, copyright in Knotting Matters is reserved to the Machine 16 International Guild of Knot Tyers IGKT Knot Gallery 22 2004. Copyright of members articles published in Knotting Matters is reserved A Systematic Approach 28 to the authors and permission to reprint should be sought from the author and The Naming of Parts 33 editor. All sources of quotations printed in Knotting Matters are acknowledged. Branch Lines 34 ISSN 0959-2881 Postbag 41 Notes from the Secretary’s Blotter his morning I am sitting at my desk empty envelopes were received, but with thinking about the various notes on donations exceeding seventy pounds, T my blotter, and at the same time, this opportunity is likely to be offered at looking out of the window, watching future meetings fluffy white clouds scudding across the Shortly after that I took my extended sky. We are expecting a cold and family, Sylvia, her mother, (and the miserable winter ahead of us, and last Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner), for a weekend, as I drove to the Council short break in Brittany to catch the last of meeting in Northamptonshire, in central the summer weather. Whilst there, we England, one could see the remains of had the privilege of meeting Henri the previous weeks snow lying on the Phillipot, who invited us to his home in roadside verges. Hennebont, and showed us his It was only a few weeks ago that I was fascinating collection of knots and rope at the Autumn Meeting in Pitsea, where work. It is this camaraderie amongst knot all those who attended had thoroughly tyers that makes my job so pleasant and enjoyed themselves. Even the local worthwhile. Mayor had been attracted to our Since I last wrote, I have issued the gathering, and spent a lot of time touring latest edition of the Membership the various displays. In response to the Handbook, and since it landed on your member’s complaints, those speaking respective doormats, I have been were invited to use microphones, which inundated with errors and omissions. My proved quite successful, although we apologies for the errors, most of which have yet to fully master the technique. have proved to be the result of my typing Ken Nelson gave a preview of the next errors. The main body of the handbook, AGM, to be held at Beale Park in is produced directly from my database, Berkshire. This will give us all most of which is accurate, however the something to look forward to through the first few pages, listing the Council cold winter months ahead. Members, and Branch secretaries, are all The question of whether we should hand typed by me - and that seems to pay to attend Guild Meeting has been have been the problem. I am not sure hotly debated over the years, but at this whether it was the result of too much meeting David Walker offered an wine, or more likely, not quite enough. interesting compromise, by inviting Hopefully, by the next issue, all these donations. An envelope was left on every little problems will have been resolved. seat in the auditorium, and members I don’t know which year this would be could opt to leave it there untouched, put in the Chinese calendar, but in mine I call the empty envelope in the collection it the Year of the Knot. This is because of bucket, or put a donation in it and place the vast quantity of ‘New Knots’ I have in the bucket. A mixture of full and received. Some of them prove to be long 2 forgotten, or not recently published, but in May. Although the figures are not yet whatever they turn out to be does available, we shall be looking at two demonstrate that there is still lot of options, one is to make a small, but interest in knot tying, both by those who regular increase, the second would be to are members, and those who have only make one much larger increase, and just discovered our existence. maintain that level for a much longer All this waffle was really trying to put period. Do you, the membership have an off the inevitable bad news. At our last opinion on this? Having said that, I will Council meeting we had to discuss and go and wipe the beads of perspiration off agree next years budget. Although the my brow, and have a lie down. final year-end figures are not yet I will take this opportunity to wish you available, it does look as though there all the compliments of the season, and I will be a significant shortfall of income hope that 2005 will be a good year for over expenditure. For next year, we have you. Finally, I must say a big thank you cut our planned expenditure to the to all those who have sent me their minimum but I must issue a warning that Christmas greetings, for which I am most subscriptions will have to increase again grateful. in 2006, and a case to that effect will be put before the membership at the AGM, Nigel Harding Col’s Comment ecently, Jane and I were able to subject has been raised before. As knot meet up with Guild member tyers, we often come across a veritable R Frank Brown in Hobart, gold mine of a supplier, but so very often Tasmania. Firstly, I must thank Frank this source is not shared with other and his wife Lynn for their wonderful members. There have been some that hospitality. Wearing my council hat, I have advertised in this magazinem ore asked him what the Guild could do for recently and in the distant past, but they those members who live somewhat are few and far between, and members remote from the slightly closer knit are often asking, “Where can I get......?” American and European members. His So if you have a supplier that you use, considered reply is given in this issue of share it with the rest of us through the Knotting Matters as ‘The Isolated pages of KM. In this issue, I give you a Knotter’. I urge you to read this and small handful to start you off. So start make your views known in KM. sending in brief details, and hopefully we Another issue that Frank raised was can compile a database of suppliers to suppliers of materials and tools. This give our members a quick reference. 3 2K7 THE SILVER ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION of the IGKT. f you are a new comer to the Guild or you missed the fun of 2K2 - now is time to I set the scene. As the world moved from the 20th century to the 21st century much ado was made of the event with world-wide events. The International Guild of Knot Tyers used the momentum of events to launch 2K2, the Twentieth birthday of the Guild, with mem- bers tying their first knot of the new millennium, and then sending a postcard of the details to Ken Yalden. By doing this, a bond was woven world wide as individual knot tyers joined into a wonderful fraternity of friends with like interests. The following two years were used to promote the Guild and the forthcoming 2K2 to be held in the year 2002. The culmination of 2K2 was a weeklong event in Furnham Hall Fareham with Displays, demonstrations and practical workshops every day. Combined with the fris- son and momentum of Knot Tyer, meeting Knot Tyer, and exchanging ideas and won- der, from a multitude of countries. January 2005 will see the beginning of the two-year lead up for 25 years of the IG- KT. So, now is the time to think what you can do for the celebration, will you teach or will you learn? Or maybe do both !! There will be general and branch meetings of the Guild, before the main event, so you can try out your ideas and get into practice. The Solent Branch has recently had an ‘On the Spot’ session, where a tutor or sub- ject was requested, and given a teaching spot for a future meeting. How about doing that for future meetings, don’t just turn up and ask for things when it is too late to make arrangements.