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IF you are after spherical covering grids or realisation browse this page of Contents and
look first in those pages of tutorials and second in the Friend's pages : miscellany here
Grids= Norbert TRUPIANO (nono) Claude HOCHET  ;  John RICHING  ;  Jan VOS
The steady flow of new tuts or new personal effort is not documented in Contents : explore the pages and  every month have a look a What is New page

TUTORIALS ARE IN TUTORIALS PAGES  PAGES

Barry BROWN
Claude HOCHET
JIMBO
Didier MURAT
John RICHINGS
Michel SINCE
Norbert TRUPIANO ( with Alcosinus aka Alain LEGEAY)
Jimmy R. WILLIAMS
Jan VOS
Don WRIGHT
Stefanos FANIDIS

bat's belfry------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There is no intersection in a knot, only crossing
Now splices are different 
Something not to forget about hitches : D/d

bat's belfry page 2-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Silly stats from a maker
Shadow chasing
Tangle
Shadow-tangle

bat's belfry page 3----------------------------------------------------------------------
Kindergarten topology and geometry

bat's belfry page 4----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ropes, letters and topology
Reidemeister's move
How to close a knot
Useless crossings
Signing the crossings and lettering too

bat's belfry page 5-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Playing with ABOK#525 and Fig-of-9
A mirror is not inverting left/right or up/down

bat's belfry page 6-----------------------------------------------------------------------
About image manipulation and propriety of language

bat's belfry page 7-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Capsizing/collapsing of square knot ( reef)

bat's belfry page 8-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Bowline coming undone
Outside tail bowline inferior to Inside tail bowline : another myth
Tangle and shadow comparison about bowline
Proposed experiments on bowline
These bowlines were not considered easily coming undone knots
Teasing question/answer
Frequently inspect your cordages
Always 'stop' or 'seize' your cordages

bat's belfry page 9-----------------------------------------------------------------------
About exploring where cordages break
The rope alphabet idea
Another missed mention of anteriority : knots and mathematics

bat's belfry page 10----------------------------------------------------------------------
Handedness
"Right" & "Left" does not make sense about knots
With the lay/against the lay

bat's belfry page 11----------------------------------------------------------------------
Clockwise - anticlockwise
With the sun - against the sun

bat's belfry page 12---------------------------------------------------------------------
Importance of the chosen frame of reference
I cannot agree with this use of S and Z with H & L

bat's belfry page 13---------------------------------------------------------------------
Turk's-Head former not a recent invention as you might have been led to believe !
Single handed bowline under strain ( a diver 'tool'  )
Shame on book by IGKT founding member who pass for an ex-spurt.
Something fishy !  Herringbone another misnomer in the knots' world

bat's belfry page 14---------------------------------------------------------------------
A topic about notation of pins, pins positioning, tracing paper, coding when transmitting
a knot (in a tutorial for example)
On the influence of the type of tracing paper on the knot representation


bat's belfry page 15---------------------------------------------------------------------
 whole topic and some remarks on """"""generalised"""""""enlargement of knots

bat's belfry page 16---------------------------------------------------------------------
Important remarks on THK enlargement
How to use the enlargement processes to make a THK EVOLVE INTO a minimalist
GAUCHO Knot ( Spanish Ring Knot )
How to use the ENLARGEMENT processes on a THK to make it evolve into
a Gaucho pattern Regular Knot
An important point on THK enlargement
Why IMO spherical cover calculator are hopeless

bat's belfry page 17---------------------------------------------------------------------
*** DISHONEST SCAM :  SOME FOOLISH GUYS TRYING TO TAKE US FOR A RIDE  AND TRYING TO MAKE US BELIEVE THEY UNDERSTAND NESTED-BIGHT CYLINDRICAL KNOTS (NBCK ) WELL ENOUGH. TO MAKE A GOOD MADE IN USA SOFTWARE.

***


friends's page----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Frank Charles Brown contribution
Belem bell rope      
Jimbo's trick for THK ( his hat band )
Roy Chapman trick for a one handed constrictor
Other Jimbo's trick for Constrictor
Clint FUNK table of knots
Contibutions ( tutorials among them )  by Atribord
Contributions by Alcosinus and Nono
A link ( while waiting for a translation into French of his belt tutorial) toward Vince Brennan tutorials
Atribord's visit to Halifax Maritime Museum
Jimbo the KINKY newly discovered splice  ;-)
Joe Schmidbauer's  bell rope

friends's page  page 2--------------------------------------------------------------------
Doug Varney aka knotworkn special jug sling
Don Wright many works and photo gallery
Jimmy R. Williams : a tricoloured monkey fist ADDED : A TUTORIAL
Derek Smith's knot drawing, coding utility
Jimbo neat splice
Roy grids
Alcosinus 's present to me : covered billiard ball
Nono & Alcosinus grids for spherical coverings
Herringbone sailor's knife lanyard by Alcosinus

friends's page  page 3--------------------------------------------------------------------
Jimbo, Frank Brown, Gabriel Richir, Roy  works

friends's page  page 4--------------------------------------------------------------------
Jimbo,

friends's page  page 5--------------------------------------------------------------------
Roy's hemp bracelet
Jimbo extreme minimalism lanyard
DON 's MAMMOTH PineApple Knot   ( Don WRIGHT)
Another Brummel by Jimbo
Jimbo's Dyneema schackle
Jimbo's   'smell wick'
DON's Blue Whale PineApple Knot ( Don WRIGHT)
DON's miscellany of knots    (Don WRIGHT)


friends's page  page 6--------------------------------------------------------------------
Claude HOCHET's work ( sample )
Roy CHAPMAN's work = becket for an Officer's Sea Chest
Matthew Walker K one strand by Claude HOCHET
Roy CHAPMAN's knot work on a Steamer steering wheel and on a passenger strap
Philippe MICHEL original works : little men in rope and high grade spherical cover
Frank C BROWN figurines
Jan VOS stupefying spherical cover with hole
Jan VOS Pyramidal cover   ( with tutorial in Publications.html )
Don WRIGHT latest whip
Barry BROWN  : a bracelet  and a 360 faces spherical cover, both from grids by NONO
Barry BROWN : a splendor !

friends's page  page 7--------------------------------------------------------------------
Roy CHAPMAN's chest beckets
Frank Charles BROW's roo
Michel SINCE photographic documentation of the making of a 360 faces spherical
covering on Nono's grid but using directly the HP codes by Claude HOCHET
Don WRIGHT guitar string
Record breaking spherical covering : 408 faces by Claude HOCHET
Record breaking spherical covering : 456 faces by Claude HOCHET
Record breaking spherical covering =  600 faces by Don WRIGHT

friends's page  page 8--------------------------------------------------------------------
The quest for PRINCE's EDWARDS CARRICK BRACELET
FCB new figurine : A Caledonian tree trunk thrower !
Don WRIGHT 800 faces spherical covering on a Nono's invented grid
Norbert TRUPIANO (NONO) 1776 faces , on his own invented grid
John RICHINGS : second first man to make a 800 1000 FACEs spherical covering
Jan VOS tutorial for PYRAMIDES 8B and 14B in images

friends's page 9  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
FCB new figurine :  Corrida
John RICHING 's 1776 FACEs spherical covering
Jan VOS realisation of Nono's bracelet ( the invented single strand version of #1389 )
Don Carrick after a new invention coming from Nono.
Michel SINCE premier Herringbone-pineapple
Don WRIGHT dog leash
Claude HOCHET new program for "all mixes of Regular Knots" : Herringbone Knots,
Herringbone-Pineapple Knots, others Pineapple, other mixes
Jan VOS ABoK#1388 with Nono's grid
John Riching record breaking spherical covering : 1976 FACEs
Claude Hochet 408/204FACEs spherical cobvering illustrated with his new software
thatdraw and code ANY nested bight knot
Franck C BROWN new F.E.G : corrida theme again
504 FACEs spherical covering
a new spherical covering made by Claude HOCHET
5 new F.E.G by Franck C BROWN
Cane and knife sheath by Don WRIGHT
Nancy BARNHART's work ( a new comer to knots )
Roy Chapman's work : belt from ABoK
John Riching : walking stick (part one)

friends's page 10  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Two knots by Nancy BARNHART that she sent to me as a present.
A welcome new contribution : JP HONEYWELL 's covering.
John RICHINGS  :walking stick (part two)
Michel SINCE : gainage en T de sa façon
Michel SINCE : encore un gainage stupéfiant d'innovation
John RICHINGS and his spaghetti mat ;-) beautiful celtic like design.
John RICHINGS ups and downs mat


friends's page 11  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Franck C. BROWN new F.E.G : doggie taking care of master's health
Latest creation from Michel SINCE : THK 'T' assembly
Latest idea from Nancy BARNHART: beach rocks and cordages
New contribution by JIMBO
A new comer from Greece : Stefanos FANIDIS
Again JIMBO : dragonflies mobile
A 'Fabergesque' egg by John RICHINGS
A program (free) from Poland (Struktor) for MOBIUS STRIPS
A tri-colour wheel by Don WRIGHT
Nancy BARNHART 368 Faces
From George HUTCHINSON : a rendering of the "Prince's bracelet"
From John RICHINGS : a PINE CONE
From Stefanos FANIDIS : a 5-PASS STANDARD HERRINGBONE KNOT : not a
PINEAPPLE but a much more difficult knot to do neatly
Eggs and CROSSES from Don WRIGHT
From Stefanos FANIDIS a knot he conceived using ARIANE

friends's page 12  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- From Stefanos FANIDIS : a PAMPA STYLE knot after the tutorial given in
--- From Jimbo  his new creation/invention : some coils with gripping power or that keep the
form they are put into
--- From John RICHINGS : an intertwining of two Prefect Herringbone-Pineapple Knots
--- From Stefanos FANIDIS several bracelets
 --- From John RICHINGS : an intertweaving of two Perfect Herringbone-Pineapple Knots
with leather lace
 --- From John RICHINGS : an intertweaving of three even-LEAD THK into a PINEAPPLE knot ( please NOT a stajndard HERRINGBONE-PINEAPPLE !!)with leather lace
---  From JIMBO : a collection of sling
--- From Stefanos FANIDIS : a SEDGEWICK knot after the tutorial given in
how-to-make page
--- From John RICHINGS :  HANSEN knot
 --- From Stefanos FANIDIS : a checkered pineapple bracelet


friends's page 13  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- From Stefanos FANIDIS : CHECKERED PINEAPPLE
---  From John RICHINGS : HELICAL PATTERN cylindrical knot ( so-called barber pole pattern)
--- From Stefanos FANIDIS : a HOUND's TOOTH cylindrical knot
--- From John RICHINGS : a 6 components semi-perfect Herringbone-Pineapple knot
--- From Michel SINCE one of his own creation
--- From a talented new comer, Joseph  (Joe) BENNETT : 360 Faces spherical cover aftter
Nono's grid plus several bracelets.
--- From John RICHINGS a 500+ spherical cover with a very handsome pattern he made
with ARIANE
--- From Don WRIGHT a DON's BRACELET ( a special pattern  and procedure )
--- different DRAGON's SCALE pattern from THREE sources : Stefanos FANIDIS,
John RICHINGS, Claude HOCHET
--- From Stefanos FANIDIS a LOSANGE PATTERN cylindrical knot
---  From Claude HOCHET: 63 FACES, 101 FACES, 120 FACES spherical covers.
--- From Don WRIGHT :: lanyard 17-STRAND double braid
--- From Don WRIGHT :: lanyard 9-STRAND double braid
--- From Don WRIGHT :: a 17-strand French Sennit lanyard
--- From Don WRIGHT :: another 17-strand French Sennit lanyard
--- From Don WRIGHT :: another set of three lanyard


friends's page 14  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- From Stefanos FANIDIS : two kangaroo leather lace bracelets designed with ARIANE
--- From Don WRIGHT : a lot of work as a donation to a charity help
--- From John RICHING : a PERSIAN CARPET PATTERN
--- From Don WRIGHT : a modified French braid and some fobs
--- From Stefanos FANIDIS :  kangaroo leather lace bracelet designed with ARIANE
--- personal gift received from Michel SINCE  
--- from Stefanos FANIDIS : the first to attempt the new NONO's grid and a lanyard
--- from Stefanos FANIDIS : a lanyard after Don's
--- John RICHING take up again the walking stick : fifth knot
--- From Stefanos FANIDIS : in leather using the lattice grid made by Norbert and
a checkered Pineapple given by Schaake in N° 44 The Braider
--- John RICHINGS variations on a spherical cover
--- Stefanos FANIDIS bracelet from ABoK#1386 sinnet  and 1385
--- Claude HOCHET and friend's splices
--- From Stefanos  FANIDIS  new attempts in paracord, inspired
by the patterns of ABoK#1385 and ABoK#1386


friends's page 15  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- From  Joseph  (Joe) BENNETT :  a very high quality crafstmanship applied to a frame




 how-to-make page-----------------------------------------------------------------------
* Hansen knots type 1 and 1* according to The Braider by Schaake
* Standard Herringbone-Pineapple Knots  (several )
* Standard Herringbone Knots (  5-PASS ODD and 5-PASS EVEN )
* Eugen ULRICH  AND FIADOR KNOTS
* HEADS HUNTERS KNOTS
* PAMPA Style 29L 16B
* PERFECT (because single strand) HERRINGBONE-PINEAPPLE KNOTS
* SLOW and FAST helix regular knots
A  Schaake's spherical Regular Nested Bights SPHERICAL cover (360F/750 Crossings)
* How to make a HOUNDTOOTH ( PIED-DE-COQ pour les francophones) pattern
after Eddy CLIMO's idea
*


investigation------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Noeud de capelage or jury rig knot
Noeud de raban de cul de chalut

investigation page 2-----------------------------------------------------------------------
An "unknown" splice of old
Canot à misaine rigging
Baleinière des Açores

investigatiopn_3--------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Lascaux 'corde' affair

investigation_4---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Noeud de Franciscain et noeud de Capucin ( Franciscan and Capucin )

investigation_5----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ashley's blunder ( one of quite a lot )


knot craft ornamental--------------------------------------------------------------------
Ornamental knots derived from Celtic knots
My diagrams
Endless knot
Noeud d'escarpolette

knot craft ornamental page 2-------------------------------------------------------------
Covering a cubic shape
Conversation piece;
Making ornament
Lamp stand and turk's head
Ornamented punt
Knots in a perfume bottle
Pearl knot
A palimpsest of "covering a cubic shape"
Several grid of knot of my invention = Neither Row Nor Column coded on a THK
cordage route
A particular helix pattern
750 Xings / 360 Facets spherical cover (Schaake 's design )
210 Xings / 210 Facets sperical cover ( Schaake's design )

knots harbor boats----------------------------------------------------------------------
Brittany knots 2005 sept
Paris river Seine moorings 2006 January
Brittany boast and harbors 2006 April
Brittany flotsam knots 2006 April
Brittany museum harbor in Douarnenez
Knots in the fields and meadows- Burgundy August 2006
Brittany mooring knot reconstructed
Brittany Sept 2006- South Coast

knots harbor boats_2-------------------------------------------------------------------
Musée de la Marine de Paris au Trocadéro
Brittany Boats and harbours 2007 June
French floats
Brittany Boats and harbours 2008 June
River SEINE moorings


my musings------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Non dangerous core for knots
Square mat by recursive move
New way to show a knot ?
Ebony and white TH
Transforming a Bowline into 2 interlocked reef knots
Model rope walk
A cat opinion about cordages and topology
A lateral splice
A one strand pseudo splice
simple tripod lashing
About the importance of respecting the lay of strands
My two ways to make a constrictor.
How to transmit a knot over the phone
A THK alternative and the notions of invention, finding, creation...

my musings p 2--------------------------------------------------------------------------
About an utilitarian knot ill treated by ornamentalist making it into a "GRAAL knot"
A trefoil in Moebius
Illustrators are the bane of knots publication
My musing about spherical cover creation/invention/finding/discovery/derivation...;-)
Following Schaake's counsel and using isometric grid to compare knots ( here Bowlines )


PAGE EN FRANCAIS  p1-------------------------------------------------------------
---présentation des motifs
---table d'orientation des BT et PAS BT
--- un nouveau diagrammed'orientation pour situer les Bonnets Turcs parmi les Noeuds
Cylindriques

PAGE EN FRANCAIS p2--------------------------------------------------------------
---Traduction fautive de LEAD and BIGHT en SPIRES et GANSES


PAGE EN FRANCAIS p 3-------------------------------------------------------------
---Une grosse rigolade !!! les GANSES PARALLELES INTERNES
---Les TYPES DE CODAGES : rang ET colonne, rang, colone, ni rang ni colonne


PAGE EN FRANCAIS p4-------------------------------------------------------------
---Numérotation des épingles, des demi-périodes, des rangs, des colonnes dans le BT
PAS des épingles et confection de n'importe quel BT
---Contre une façon d'exprimer les BT qui est vide de sens
---ça sent le poisson pas frais  (sur la mauvaise dénomination que représente
'arête de poisson' ou herringbone pour qualifier un motif )

PAGE EN FRANCAIS p5-------------------------------------------------------------
---longue explication sur les agrandissements (enlargement) des BT avec et sans la mule

PAGE EN FRANCAIS p6-------------------------------------------------------------
---tutorielS pour plusieurs noeuds réguliers
---Modularité dans certains noeuds réguliers
---Faire mieux que ASHLEY sur certains de ses noeuds
couverture de forme cubique et pomme de touline "harmonieuse"

PAGE EN FRANCAIS p7-------------------------------------------------------------
---mise au point sur les agrandissements
---procédés d'agrandissement utilisés pour les évolutions de noeuds réguliers
---Aide de Nautile pour les nuls pour savoir combien de PARTS et d'ANSES sont ajoutés
lors d'un agrandissement de BT carrés
---Feuille excel de Nautile pour tous les agrandissements de BT

PAGE EN FRANCAIS p8-------------------------------------------------------------
---CHEVRON : une appelation peu judicieuse dans la plupart des cas !
---traduction de mon article de 2008 : commentfaire un ruban de Möbius
---Traduction de mon article de 2007 : les bonnets turcs ne sont PAS des tresses (braids )
---De l'importance des demi-tours et des boucles pour la qualité des noeuds


PAGE EN FRANCAIS9-------------------------------------------------------------
---petit supplément d'information sur les numérotations ESSENTIELLES à connaître dans
les Noeuds Cylindriques Réguliers 
---Faire un Noeud Möbius Régulier
--- autre feuille Excel de calculs pour Noeuds Cylindriqueq Régulierq codage COLONNE
---Tous les Bonnets Turcs carrés avec 4 départs seulement
---Comment trouver le code d'un Noeud Cylindrique Régulier
---CASA est une notion a abandonner
---Casa est réellement uen notion un peu idiote, un poison intellectuel

PAGE EN FRANCAIS p10-------------------------------------------------------------
--- Bonnet Turc 9P 8A == Gaucho UNE-PASSE 9P  8A
--- Résumés des agrandissements
--- agrandisseemnt d'ordre supérieur
--- un """pineapple""" de 1934
--- une méthode de 1934 pour les BT longs
--- l'algorithme du pauvre et le 'moule'
---quiz: est-ce un noeud régulier ?
---sur le noeud de Matthew Walker ( un noeud de ride)
---Noeud de Trèfle avec un ruban de Möbius
---Illustrateurs == poison ( fermeture bouteille champagne)
---à propos de 'noeuds nouveaux"
---quelques réflexions sur les couvertures sphériques
---diagrammes isométriques
---une série particulière de bonnet turc somme point de départ
----bis sur diagrammes isométriques et quatre noeuds d'ajut


PAGE EN FRANCAIS p11-------------------------------------------------------------
- A PROPOS DES BONNETS TURCS LONGS


PAGE EN FRANCAIS p12-------------------------------------------------------------

- un auteur moins inculte que 99% des noeurs français et qui utilise ANSE plutôt que cette
idiotie de traduction parGANSE


publications------------------------------------------------------------------------------
New spherical cover ( Nono and Alcosinus )
Nono : a pouch
Nono : Solid Sinnet : Excel worksheet
A great 3 colours Monkey's fist tutorial by Jimmy R WILLIAMS
A whole bunch of Donald B WRIGHT tutorials
Sphere covering tutorial in code tables (French for now) by by Claude HOCHET
Barry BROWN special variation on the PINEAPPLE theme
Barry BROWN SINGLE strand Matthew Walker Knot
Jan VOS sharing about the Pyramidal Cover Knot
Addition of Michel SINCE in Claude HOCHET topic (360 faces Nono's spherical
covering)

publications_2 ( Nautile's only )----------------------------------------------------------
Moebius ( nautile)
Mathematics and THK (nautile

THK of not THK
Knots and mathematics
a bunch of Nautile's writing
How to easily do Moebius strips
HP 48GX EMUlator EMU48 to run my knots programs
HP-48 programs 
NO LONGER MADE AVAILABLE ! ( ask for it by mail )
SUPERSEDED BY RKnotBUILDER program

publications_3 ( Nautile's only )----------------------------------------------------------
HP 48GX program for the Moebius
SEVERAL HP 48GX program computing THK coding algorithm
Tutorial : special ALGORITHM for LONG COLUMN-coded standard knots
Tutorial : paper and pencil calculation of code for PINEAPPLE
Tutorial : paper and pencil calculation of code for so called multi-strand THK
Another HP48GX emulator  ( Window - MAC  LINUX )
HP48 program for HERRINGBONE knots
HP48 program for any knot on a THK cordage route
complete correction of the faulty links and addition of a total recapitulation ( page bottom)
SEVERAL EXCEL Worksheets : adaptation of the HPGX48 programs
HP-48 programs 
NO LONGER MADE AVAILABLE ! ( ask for it by mail )
SUPERSED BY RKnotBUILDER program

publications_4---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nono ( Norbert TRUPIANO ) covering for CUBE
A forgotten  ( my mistake ! ) tutorial by Don(ald) WRIGHT  : LLK Little Lump Knot
Nono double sleeve knot
Nono : a spherical covering with  a "bump" all along the equator

publications_5---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nautile's HELP FOR DUMMIES on square THK enlargement
Nautile tutorials on HERRINGBONE KNOTS ( Even and Odd more 5 and 6-PASS)
Excel worksheet for THK enlargement
IsoGridTracer stand alone program ( a PYTHON program)

HP-48 programs 
NO LONGER MADE AVAILABLE ! ( ask for it by mail )
SUPERSEDED BY RKnotBUILDER program

publications_6---------------------------------------------------------------------------
RKnotBUILDER a stand alone program by Claude HOCHET    OBSOLETE
RKnotBUILDER VERSION 2 WITH DRAWING MODULE    OBSOLETE
RKnotBUILDER VERSION 3 
NONO (Norbert TRUPIANO)  ONE OF KIND BRACELET


publications_7---------------------------------------------------------------------------
NONO (Norbert TRUPIANO)  ONE OF KIND BRACELET

publications_8---------------------------------------------------------------------------
63 faces for sphere, tetrahedron, octahedron covering by Michel SINCE
Two tuts by John RICHINGS from Wales
An hexahedron (cube here) covering by Michel SINCE from a NONO's diagram

quiz--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
String and balls teaser
Linked teaser
My trick with overhand knots
Topological knots can be real ones
Never ending story ?
C knot

quiz page 2-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Two ropes and ring teaser
Playing with the Perko pair
Fixed loop = sliding loop or Bwl transmogryfied
Lapp bowline instead of usual beginning with #1788 in mind
Quiz Bowline on a ring

quiz page 3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Champagne and hemp

quiz page 4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Brion TOSS möbius bowline
A mystery knot ? will you recognize it at first glance ?
Quiz : is that a Regular Knot ?

ropes & cordages------------------------------------------------------------------------
Trees they know
About the trick of using letters "Z" & "S" to find the lay
Uncoiling a cordage the right way
Fibre - thread/yarn - strand - helix

ropes & cordages  page 2---------------------------------------------------------------
Forces inside a cordage
France Marine Nationale way to a snarl free coiling
How a laid cordage behave under a load
La Corderie Royale de ROCHEFORT

ropes & cordages  page 3---------------------------------------------------------------
TWO articles found on the NET
New topic on a particular Egyptian rope item

ropes & cordages  page 4---------------------------------------------------------------
The oldest known knot
Textile industry yarn glossary
Natural fibres orientation ans its consequences
Practical forensic microscopy


Turk's head_1----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bight/lead counting
My irregular THK
THK are not braids
Is any circular knot of any complexity a THK
Personal proposal to define what is a THK

Turk's head_2----------------------------------------------------------------------------
THK compared anatomy
THK enlargement


Turk's head_3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Enlargement step by step in slow sequence
Enlargement : The secret of the mule
Enlargement : use of "corridors"
Enlargement : mat perspective
A few formula fro |L-B|=1 THK
Unrolling of time sequence compared to spatial sequence in enlargement process
Enlargement extended to other knots than THK : an exploration

Turk's head_4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
BIGHT number versus BIGHT order
Modulus

Turk's head_5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Titbits (UK) or tidbits ( US)  of THK anatomy & math
Order in which the BIGHT are COMPLETED
Miscellany musing

Turk's head_6 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Computing the order in which the BIGHT are LAID
Teeth in the sea !
Different way to BIGHT numbering

Turk's head_7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
About half-period in THK

Turk's head_8 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dissection of HALL's prose on "algorithm"

Turk's head_9  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Palimpsest of HALL's prose on the "algorithm"

Turk's head_10 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Follow-on of page 9

Turk's head_11 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Follow-on of page 10

Turk's head_12 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Algorithm : user's recipe

Turk's head_13 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Short cuts in writing the sequences

Turk's head_14------------------------------------------------------------------
A program in HP-RPL for the ROW-coded knots made on a THK shadow
Reading tips
About PINEAPPLE

Turk's head_15------------------------------------------------------------------
Still PINEAPPLE mostly a summary of SCHAAKE and TURNER


Turk's head_16------------------------------------------------------------------
Still PINEAPPLE : THEIR TYPES : WHAT EXACTLY THEY ARE
A well diffused egregious mistake about Pineapple 

Turk's head_17------------------------------------------------------------------
Still PINEAPPLE
Differentiation of coding

Turk's head_18-----------------------------------------------------------------
Differentiation of coding
Calculation of length needed

Turk's head_19-----------------------------------------------------------------
ALL SQUARE THK from 4 basic THK
Coming back in CORRIDORS and COUNTING LEAD
Summary of Enlargement Type 1 and Type 2
UPPER ORDER enlargement
PINEAPPLE FROM  1934
1934 method for long turks head
Poor Man Algorithm and mule and mould

Turk's head_20-----------------------------------------------------------------
SCHAAKE on Turk's Head and CASA !
Some characteristics of Herringbone Pineapple Knots
Another style of enlargement

Turk's head_21-----------------------------------------------------------------
LONG turks-head knots


Turk's head_22-----------------------------------------------------------------
How to differentiate knots made either on a THK cordage route or with
interwoven THK

Turk's head_23-----------------------------------------------------------------
Asymmetric Regular Nested Knot
Periodic Regular Nested Knots
Essential coding of Pineapple
Essential coding of checkered pineapple
THK envisioned as POLYMER ;-)
The mule system for turk's head enlargement
TYPES of coding
On THK enlargement
THK as polymer
Soap box against one stupid name : CASA



Turk's head_24-----------------------------------------------------------------
Standard Herringbone Knots

Turk's head_25-----------------------------------------------------------------
Comparing Herringbone and Herringbone-Pineapple for dummies
Angry ( really, deeply, sincerely) billet on some stupidities on nested and not nested

Turk's head_26-----------------------------------------------------------------
Herringbone, Sequence Rule and probability of success in case of ignorance of that rule
Pounding the nail with  those with a wood(en)  head on HER and HER-PAK
Establishing the difference NESTED  and NO-NESTED BIGHTS
SCALING AND PHASE SHIFT as explanation in NESTED NO-NESTED

Turk's head_27-----------------------------------------------------------------
Searching for any of those ?
Nautile help for the dumb about numbering PINS, positioning PINS
THK and some moronic statement dissected
Nautile help for the dumbs on GAUCHO knots - HEADHUNTER knots - FAN knots
using MODULARITY


Turk's head_28-----------------------------------------------------------------
about the meaning and uses of : crossing, face, ply, pass


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TUTORIALS PAGES

Barry BROWN
Claude HOCHET
Didier MURAT
John RICHINGS
Michel SINCE
Norbert TRUPIANO ( with Alcosinus aka Alain LEGEAY)
Jimmy R. WILLIAMS
Jan VOS
Don WRIGHT
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