Guild Supplies Price List 2002 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 Des Pawson, Brian Field and Geoffrey Budworth cut the birthday cake, while Knot Tyers Ken Yalden toasts the Guild. Back Cover - Councillor Mrs. P Bryant, Issue No. 76 Mayor of Fareham unveils the 2K2 frontispiece President: Brian Field Secretary: Nigel Harding Editor: Colin Grundy Website: www.igkt.net IN THIS ISSUE Submission dates for articles KM 77 07 OCT 2002 Letter from a President 3 KM 78 07 JAN 2003 The Guild Website 4 Book Reviews 7 A Crowning Achievement 10 Knotting Matters on CD 12 How to ... Find Cordage 13 The IGKT is a UK Registered Knotmaster 14 Charity No. 802153 The Gourock Logo 16 Except as otherwise indicated, copyright The Fareham Experience 18 in Knotting Matters is reserved to the In- ternational Guild of Knot Tyers IGKT Spherical Covering Knots, Pt II 32 2002. Copyright of members articles published in Knotting Matters is reserved Decorated Knife & Sheath 37 to the authors and permission to reprint should be sought from the author and ed- Bowstrings, Pt I 38 itor. All sources of quotations printed in Knotting Matters are acknowledged. Branch Lines 45 Notes from the Secretary’s Blotter ith the 20th Birthday that of my postman. Thank you all for Celebrations, yet another co-operating with the change. They are W holiday, demands made upon more businesslike than I am, yet just as me by my employer, wife, family etc. - friendly and approachable as I would but I shan’t mention any of that. I’ll like to think I’ve been - and are always mention the wonderful time at Fareham there during normal business hours! meeting members from around the Remember your cheque should still be world, and making many new friends. made out to IGKT, and don’t forget to The atmosphere, the camaraderie, knot include your name and address in your to mention the incredible quality and letter. If paying by credit card, they ask quantity of knot tying was amazing. I that you indicate which fee you want must thank, first and foremost, Ken them to collect. At this stage, they don’t Yalden for turning this idea into reality; know whether you are junior, adult, without his inspiration - and last strands family or group member. Should you of hair, none of this would have come to wish to contact them, Linda Easton is our fruition. Neither would it have happened contact, her phone number is 01732 without the help and support of those 520040 and email address is around him including the team of [email protected] stalwarts who ‘did all the work’. On For overseas members who have behalf of the membership I thank you all problems obtaining cheques or cash in most sincerely. UK pounds, I will try to be flexible. Let The AGM that followed was attended me know if you’re having trouble, and by 10% of the membership. Tony Doran, I’ll see what I can do to help - but please Jeff Wyatt, and Ken Yalden all retired don’t send non UK currencies to CAF as from the council, whilst Ken Nelson and they are unable to deal with it. Charlie Tyrrel were elected to it, leaving, The Celebration Tankards have for the first time, an empty seat in the proved popular, and sold well. Initially, Council Chamber. Again, on behalf of they were in short supply but I have the membership, I would like to record some in stock, and can post them our thanks to Jeff, Ken and Tony for the anywhere in the world. Remember the many years that they have worked motif is genuine 22-carat gold, and they diligently and constructively on your should not be put in a dishwasher or behalf microwave. With all these changes, Lesley Wyatt Two small queries for the has accepted the role of Web Site co- membership, if your subscription is paid ordinator, and you’ll be pleased to know from an account in the name of G D that the site has been updated. I’m sure Goodall, please contact me, likewise if Lesley will be pleased to hear from you you wrote to me with a request for a copy with your contributions. of KM72. CAF collecting your subscriptions on Nigel Harding my behalf, has eased my workload, and 2 Letter from a President his letter is by way of being a developing flat knot designs and who ‘State of the nation’ report on my had produced privately a five inch thick T Presidency so far. book containing over 500 designs. All to I said in my inaugural speech that I who I showed the book agreed that it would try and visit as many branches as should be published. With the consent of possible. So far I have met the North the Council and a lot of work by Des American Branch, the Pacific Branch Pawson, a slimmed down version has and the Texas Branch. On this side of the now been published. I rate this flat knot Atlantic I have visited the newly formed work as bearing comparison with John French group and groups in Essex, East Hensel and Kaj Lund. Anglia, Kent and Bristol. If I haven’t Following a telephone call from the visited your area, bear with me. As my BBC asking about the knots and ropes health improves, my visits will spread available to Iron Age Celts, the producer further afield. was interested in the reconstruction of an All of us in the Guild endeavour to Iron Age chariot. I pointed him in the develop old talents and explore new direction of rawhide rather than rope and ones. I am pleased to say that after years IGKT member Richard Hopkins. The of badgering, Europa Chang-Dawson resultant programme gave credit both to has agreed to put on paper her detailed Richard and the Guild. Although the 10- knowledge of the lore of Chinese second shot of Richard was all too short, knotting. Anyone can become an expert the producers written account of the on Chinese knotting - all that is needed is project is much more generous in its great skill, a highly developed artistic praise of his skills. The chariot now sense and years of practice. These stands in the forecourt of the British qualities Europa has, but in addition she Museum and once again the IGKT has has something I believe to be very rare, if increased its reputation as a reputable not unique. and authoritative body. Brought up in a traditional Chinese The last three years have seen family, a rarity in her youth, she has introduced two innovations. One is the learned from her aunt not only the Presidents newsletter and the other is the mechanics of knotting and braiding, but Certificate of Honour system to reward also the stories, fables and legends members who work so hard in the associated with this work. Stories and service of the Guild. I hope these items meanings passed down over many will set precedents for future Presidents hundreds of years. The world of knotting to follow. will be richer when her work is finished. The Council has offered me a second term of office and although my health is Another discovered talent is that of not good at the moment I feel I still have Skip Pennington. Contacting the writer work to do and service to offer. I look of a letter with a curious letterhead, I forward to producing a similar report in found a man who had spent 20 years three years time. 3 The Guild Website by Lesley Wyatt or some time now the Guild had a known about, please send me details so website set up by Tony Doran. this page can be kept as up-to-date as F Unfortunately, due to unforeseen possible. circumstances, Tony has been unable to continue work on it. The committee Galleries asked if I would help. After The Gallery Section will be expanded consideration, and confirmation that I into several galleries, for example: Bags, would not be responsible for the Bellropes, Chest Beckets, Decorative technical stuff, I agreed. Web Designer, Knots, Functional Knots, Key Fobs, Mel Pedley of Black Widow Web Mats, Pictures, Tools and Turk’s Heads. Design, was retained to set up and These names are based on the pictures monitor the site, and we started working that are already there. If anyone has together in July. ideas for additional galleries, please let Bearing in mind the possible size the me know. site could grow to, we decided to move the site to a ‘provider’ who could offer Online Forum more space at better rates. We needed to There is an interactive Online Forum register a new ‘domain’ name and now where members are able to ‘chat’ and have a new web address - www.igkt.net have discussions on knots.