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Knotting Matters 53 ISSUE 53 SUMMER - JULY1996 ISSN 0959-2881 \'.. GUILD SUPPLIES I.G.K.T. STOCK LIST 1995 "'.. ::II:I:I:I.jlll~lllllllllj:i:i::li:l:iljl:::l:I:II:·1··:·II·lj·I:I:::III:I:ljl·:~lljl:lilll:lllllii.:I::·:1:::llilil::lil:ll jl·:::lll:::i::IIIIII:lil:llillll:::i:iil:l:I::I.i.i:lllil~:il:~~::.llillliil.~:··li·I::i·i::·:·I:lil::::~I:lljlillllllll::l::llllllll·: KNOTCHARTS 100 to choose from £0.10 each POSTCARDS Set of 8 instructional (Brown & Cream) £1.50 Set Set of 8 Single Strand Ornamental Knots (White on Blue) £1.50 Set RUBBER STAMP "IGKT - Member" (excludes stamp pad) £4.00 TIES Polyster (Dark blue, with white Knot motifs) LONG £8.95 each BADGES Guild LOGO Enamel Brooch Type £1.80 each Cloth, Blazer Type £1.00 each Car Sticker (Solft Plastic) £1.00 7" Display Stand Logo £7.50 each KNOT CRAFT· THE VIDEO elementary teaching aid VHSorNTSC Stuart Grainger £8.50 each SUPPLIES SECRETARY 3 Walnut Tree Meadow Stonham Aspal STOWMARKET Suffolk IP14 6DF THE QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER of THE INTERNATIONAL GlTILD OF KNOT TYERS ISSUE No. 53 SUMMER - JULY 1996 PRESIDENT Des Pawson HON VICE PRESIDENT Dr. Vaughan Jones,F.R.S. PAST PRESIDENTS Perey Blandford - Geoffrey Budworth - Erie Franklin ­ Jan Vos - Stuart Grainger - Glad Findley GUILD ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION RATES: SECRETARY: Payable by cash/cheque EurocardlMastercard or Nigel Harding VISA. Juniors £4 3 Walnut Tree Meadow Seniors £14 Stonham Aspal Families £19 STOWMARKET Corporate By Arrangement Suffolk IP14 6DF Tel: 01449 711121 Taxpayers in the UK - We would prefer a covenanted subscription. EDITORS: Lonnie & Margaret Boggs Advertising Rates: Members Non-members 78 Marlborough Avenue Full page £32 £49 KIDLINGTON Half page ~19 £22 Oxford 0 X5 2AP Quarter page £10 £15 Tel: 01865 378104 For inclusion in one issue only. Except as otherwise indicated, copyright in Knotting Submission dates for inclusion of articles/letters: Matters is reserved to the International Guild of Knot KM54 16 AUGUST 96 Tyers IGKT 1995. Copyright in members' articles KM55 22 NOVEMBER 96 published in Knotting Matters is reserved to the KM56 07 MARCH 97 authors and permission to reprint should be sought KM57 07 JUNE 97 from the author and editor. All sources of quotations printed in Knotting Matters are acknowledged. THE IGKT IS A UK REGISTERED CHARITY NO. 802153 submitted for him by Richard EDS BYTES & PIECES Hopkins. Page 45, Animals Knots What do you think of the new front should be 'ANIMAL KNOTS' and page and table of conrents? I heard a was written by Heinz Prohaska lot of good ideas about how to make Horsching, Austria. Also the letter KM better at the AGM at Gilwell in ends, 'Gorillas use knots to join the May. I hope we have included them ends of lianas (not lines) when all in this issue. The new 'HOUSE making its nest. Page 50, the letter STYLE' will include things like 'More on Clock Ropes' was written indented parC;lgraphs and putting by Terry Ridings. Here is his address authors names and areas at the head so you can write to him: 121 Garner of the article or letter. We will try to Road, Salt Spring Island, BC, use some symbols to break between Canada, V8K 2B1 articles and letters to help alert the .(email:[email protected]) reader of the change. We try to retype Going back to KM50 (page 20) and all letters and articles but sonle times 51 (page 26) the two articles on 'The the quality of the item is as good as Use Of Knots On Inland Waterways, we could do and would loose the written by Stuart Grainger, was first distinctive look of the author, so we published in the magazine "Canal and scan it in or send it off to the printers Riverboat" in 1992- copyright Stuart as camera ready copy. So there will Grainger. be changes in columns and type face but its deliberate. There are some NOTES FROM THE spelling errors but not that many for SECRETARY'S BLOTTER 68 pages. We make_ every effort to proof read all the text at least four I am sitting here looking out at the times by three different people and sun shining on the garden, and still we see glaring mistakes when we thinking, why am I sitting indoors read the printed copy from the writing this, when I should be outside printers. We will continue to strive to enjoying a brief glimpse of summer. come up to the very high standard Such is the sacrifice one has to make, that was' set by our previous editor, especially when the deadline for copy Gordon Perry. for this edition of KM is tomorrow, Erratum KM 52: The article and Lonnie can be so persuasive, beginning on page 10 is of course by (and he is also one of the few people I Stuart Grainger, and I didn't include know who is bigger than me). his name. The letter beginning on As usual I am in a rush, as I have to page 34 'Nautical Unequal Ropes' get all those little jobs done before tea was written by Eric Jones but time today, which is Friday, because I 2 KNOTTING MATTERS - JULY 1996 shall be going to bed about that time other nationalities may be much more in readiness for an enjoyable laid back, as I have on numerous weekend of night shifts. On Monday occasions been specifically asked to when I start moving back into the change an individuals address label, land of the living, I shall be climbing not only to remove the title, but to into my car and setting off on my replace it with their Christian name. I touring holiday in France. By the shall continue the practice of the time you will be reading this, I shall formal address unless an individual be back home again, wading knee objects, in which case, if I am advised deep, through the piles of I will make the appropriate correspondence which will have piled al terations. up on the doormat, in our absence. If Whilst on the subject of you have written recently, and are correspondence, I have been asked by still awaiting a reply, that is probably Margaret Machado in Oregon, if the reason. there is anyone who would be Since I last put pen to paper we have interested in corresponding with her held our Annual General Meeting at on the subject of Tatting. She has Gilwell, which was an amazing started creating jewellery and gathering of knot tyers from all over accessories using a modified tatting the world. With well over a hundred technique. Other enquiries I have members present it must rate as our received, range from the covering of most successful gathering so far. Our the sheaths of Japanese swords, to a thanks must go to Charlie Smith and simplified introduction to the his team of helpers who made all the Schaake mathematics. Incidentally. necessary arrangements, not the Jug Knot is often referred to as forgetting David Doy, and his having been in regular use by the daughter Jane who kept us fed and Romans, can anyone confirm whether watered all day, with catering of the this is fact or fiction. highest standard. As others have A question raised at the AGM was prepared their own reports on the whether we should be organising a event, I shan't say any more about it, major event to coincide with the other than, I am looking forward to Millennium celebrations, or whether the next one. we should wait until our twentieth On to more mundane administrative birthday, in 2002. There was an matters. Here in the UK we are all a overwhelming majority in favour of little reserved about ourselves, and so the latter, however, that does not stop correspondence is usually addressed us from having a lesser event for the rather formally to Mr or Mrs former. Ideas put forward were quite Whatsizname, however, I suspect that diverse, however the one which KNOTTING MATTERS - JULY 1996 3 caught my fancy, was to tie a Turk's ERIC FRANKLIN Head around two thousand well FOUNDER MEMBER & SECOND known objects from.. all over the PRESIDENT world. This struck the as being a useful public relations exercise, We are sorry to have to record the achievable, and amusing. I must death of Eric Franklin, but are admit that I was in a substantial thankful for his long and busy life minority, but the thought of a Turk's and particularly for his love of and Head stuck on the top of the Eiffel skill in knotting, to the benefit of the Tower did rather catch my Guild. He was a founder member imagination. Must go now, it is now and our second president, and very Sunday afternoon, and I have run out active in putting the Guild on its feet. of time. More recent merrlbers will not have To all of our northern hemisphere met Eric because he was kept from menlbers, do have a good summer, meetings by a prolonged illness, but best wishes. those members from earlier days will Nigel Harding have happy memories of his knowledge, skill and ability to entertain. My connections with Eric go back at least to early post war years in Scouting. I first knew him when both of us were contributing to the boys' magazine 'The Scout' and the adult magazines 'Scouter' and 'Scouting'. We have both been life long members of the Scout Association and both, more recently, commissioners. By coincidence, and possibly to be regarded as a fitting tribute to Eric, our AGM has just been held in a new building on the spot at Gilwell where a few of us Guild members ran a knotting base at the annual Scout Gilwell Reunion when our Guild was not much more than one year old.
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