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ISSUE 42 EARLY 1993 ISSN 0959-2881 I~I iiiiiiiiiiiiiii~11 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiijKiiiiiiiiiiiijN0iiiiiiiiiiiijTTiiiiiiiiiiiijINiiiiiiiiiiiijGiiiiiiiiiiiijMiiiiiiiiiiiijAiiiiiiiiiiiTTBiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiRiiiiiiiiiiiS THE QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER of THE INTERNATIONAL GUILD OF KNOT TYERS ISSUE No. 42 JANUARY 1993 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). PAYABLE By: Nigel HARDING CASH/CHEQUE/EUROCARD/ MASTERCARD or 3 Walnut Tree Meadow VISA. Stonham Aspal Juniors (Under 16 years oId) £ 4.00 STOWMARKET Suffolk Seniors £ 14.00 IP146DF Families £ 19.00 TeI: 0449 - 7I1121 Corporate ByArrangement Taxpayers in the UK - We would prefer a JIDJIQR covenanted subscription. Gordon PERRY MBE Except as otherwise indicated, copyright in Knotting 17 I London Road Matters is reserved to the International Guild of Knot HORNDEAN Tyers IGKT 1993. Copyright in members' articles Hampshire published in Knotting Matters is reserved to the P080HH authors and permission to reprint should be sought from the author and editor. All sources of TeI: 0705 - 592808 quotations printed in Knotting Matters are acknowledged. The IGKT is a UK REGISTERED CHARITY #802153 1 1...--- EDITORIAL _ I A belated Happy New year to you all, and yes I have resolved to catch up with the KM schedule as soon as I can. I NEW MEMBERS I However for me to catch up I need more material. If you have black and white WELCOME TO THE GUILD: photographs, can write a small article or two., make up a crossword or puzzle, have NHW KITCHENER - Dorset UK a hmt or tip that you would like to pa<;s Leonard MITCHEL - Illinois USA on or you know someone who can ­ AW GARLINGE - Dorset UK please pass it on. Remember, if you M NEWCOMER PA USA submit anything that has already been Chris NEAL Salop UK published I also need written approval to Grant WALTZ lA USA use it from the AuthorfPublL<;her - this David SWANN MD USA should not be a problem because the Gary SEESIONS - Texas USA source is always recognised and KM is WiIliam GERRY - BC CANADA the newsletter of a regi<>tered charitv and Sarah BULL Essex UK not sold for profit. • Peter WILLlAMS Dyfed UK Ralph LIA NY USA I did have some good news for the New Stephen ABLETT -Worcestershire UK Year!! - my appointment in the New Les BAKER Bristol UK Years Honours Li<;t to be a Member of the Terry BAR BEE Texas USA Military Division of the Most Excellent John BERNARD LA USA Order of the British Empire (MBE), so I Stephan BOCKSTROM - SWEEDEN have recently been to Buckingham Palace Mike B ROMLEY CA USA with my family for the Investiture by The A CAMPBELL - Merseyside UK Queen. Philippe CORREARD - FRANCE lan CRABBE Essex UK Nigel ha,,; just asked me to give a 10 R DUNCAN Aberdeen UK minute talk at the AGM, so I propose to Gus ERICKSON MN USA let all those of you who attend into the Jean Paul HASSELLE ~ BELGIUM in process that I use putting together the John HEAPY Cheshire UK pages of Knotting Matters. See you Ray HULM Middlesex UK there........hopefully with your bit to say Jack KEENE Texas USA on how you would like to sce KM Larry HALL MT USA in develop the future. Richard LEV Y London UK Ryan SMITH GA USA Michael LUCAS - Hampshire UK Bill SORENSON CA USA Matthew MANGELS - MA USA Brigitte STONE Devon UK Ray McALLISTER - MD USA Don THIERS - BC CANADA Don MIKKELSON VA USA Peter UPHAM Queensland AUSTRALIA Charles OLSON Georgia USA Imgard VALK - Yssel NETHERLANDS Dennis PEACOCK CA USA L WILKES - Staffs UK Carl PECKINPAUGH - VA USA Giovanni SASSU - Cagliari ITALY David RICHARDS - Isle of Man UK 2 From THE SECRETARY'S BLOTTER As 1 sit here in front of the word well, a copy might even be included with processor, resting the bags under my eyes this edition of KM, otherwise it will be on the desk, odd thoughts drift through with the details of the AGM. my mind. Some would say that all my thoughts are odd, whilst others are quite For those who have paid this years surprised that 1I have any thoughts at all!! subscription, plea<;e skip the rest of this paragraph, as I just want a quiet word From the correspondence 1 receive from with those who haven't. Please send me all around the world, I get to know a lot the money as soon as possible, as Linda, of what is going on in the knotting our beloved treasurer, gets ever so irritable fraternity, yet unless 1 tell you no one eL<;e with me for not helping her keep her will ever get to know. books straight. For example, for those members in I have now attended a years worth of America, did you know that Ray McAI­ Council meetings. My hair is much whiter lister is toying with the idea of ~tarting a than it wa<; a year ago, but at least the branch in the Maryland area, as is Mike perennial problem of •'Trading" has now Bromley in California. LuAnne Kozma gone away, with the issue of the "Code of is also well under way with her plans for Practice" with KM41. something in the Great Lakes area, which could include members from both the The latest edition of Ashley will be USA and Canada. Well done everyone!! available shortly. As usual, it is very expensive, but worth every penny. This Cary Parks has just given me quite a edition is particularly noteable because the headache. Unknown to him, his name was extremely attractive dust cover i<; a picture mentioned in an article in the American of a knot board by Bemard Cutbush. 1 edition of Scouting magazine, and just had better stop now, before 1 flU the before Christmas he sent me the 83 whole of this edition with a lot of ,my enquiries which had unexptX.'tedly arrived ramblings. on his doormat. Well, having dealt with those, he has gone and sent me another 1 hope to sec you at the AGM, load. Thanks for all your efforts Cary. Nigel HARnING Up there in the far north, Lennart Heinriches is waving the flag for the SUBSCRIPTIONS Guild in Finland, and there are many others, far too numerous to mention, who are all doing the same, throughout the We arc now able to accept whole world. EUROCARD MASTERCARD I have recently produced a supplement to and VISA - which should reduce the Membership list, which includes those members who have joined us since the the bank and currency coversion last list was printed. If things have gone charges for non-UK members. 3 · --0------ ------' t Any tVr/77 o-r Starknot can 6e usedto start::, providing that each seranc//s /lnally eucked ou~ardbetween the upperandlower loops or Cl node. They are next- tied in a Crown andeach strandis then tuckeda.9a/n to fOrm a MattheU/ Walker Knot enc/rcl/179 6J?e Star. 5 ~ .2-93 A Matthew Walker encircling a Star Knot. 4 Beneath tile enCircledStar; s6rt tYlry ~ ---""_0 second Starknot ~~~IJi,.:.-_l!!""'~!'8Irrelevant details are O/?7dxed "-'~'-=........ to aidclarity At this scase, as viewed rr007 above, curn the knot: over and extend the lower loo,L? or ~~~~. each node. Overlap the e..::ctended loops, as shown, tuck the ends through at the overlap men 6ack to the s~ where they l77ayoe secvredall:er 6ghtenin..9 moderately ThiS knoe r€9uires care andpa6ence in the rmal &.9hee'"7In51 or 5y/7?/?7eCry l77ay 6e lost Development of Bott le top Knot: As describe-d by Jan Hoefnagel 28-10-92. ~ 2-93. 5 LETTERS Edgar SINDER from USA writes.. As for security: I have tested thi'" ESKIMO BEND against Sheet Bend and True Love Bend (Ashley's #1414 "Water Knot") and GRAND BANKS found it much more secure than either. If FISHERMAN'S LOOP: STRENGTH is of primary importance ­ which it usually is not - then all three are Recently I wrote of discovering a Fisher­ inferior because LH GRAPEVINE BEND man's Knot so strong and so secure, even (Ashley #294) is by far our strongest easily in monofilament, that I'm astounded it - tied secure bend - particularly in monofi­ isn't universally known and used. It is ail lament. that, but, a", I suspected, is not "new". It is Item 8, Plate #314, The Encyclopedia of Knots. G & H say it's a "Ganging Knot often used by fishermen on the Grand leAN ANYONE HELP Banks to suell their hooks". To tie it RH, just tie a Slip Knot (Ashley's #44) with the hook where the arrow i", and lead the end Judyth GWYNNE, up over the S1aDding cord and back R. through the overhand. It is neater, stronger, The author of ..Basic Principles for the smaller, more secure, and easier tied than Cleaning of Lace & Linen" is emharking the ANGLER'S LOOP (Ashley #286). on a second book in which all types of laces, including Netting, Knotting and Macrame are to feature. Judyth will be ESKIMO BEND: using some extracts from 'Ashley, but After writing in the same letter I'd seeks to contact other exponents, particul­ discovered the smallest and neatest bend, ary in the arts of Macrame lace, st%'Ul'e to breaking point even in monofila­ (Leonardo's Knot or similar designs) and ment, and often a most useful bend where Tatting. Photograhs relating to these suhj the Sheet Bend is usually worthless ects will be particularly welcome. If you because of its weakness and insecurity, 1 can help or know "a man that can" then discovered that Harry Asher on Pages 22 plea<>e contact Judyth direct at: and 23 of KM38 descnbes and pictures 'Bramcote' this very bend.
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