Knots, Splices and Rope Work

by A. Hyatt Verrill

Giving Complete and Simple Directions for Making All the Most Useful and Ornamental Knots in Common Use, with Chapters on Splicing, Pointing, Seizing, Serving, etc. Adapted for the Use of Travellers, Campers, Yachtsmen, Boy Scouts, and All Others Having to Use or Handle Ropes for Any Purpose.

A MUST HAVE

Artificial eye

Baggage
Barrels
Beams
Belaying-pin
Belaying-pin splice
Belting
Bends
Bight
Billet
Blackwall hitch
Blocks
Bolt-rope
Bow-knots
Bow-line
Bow-line on bight
Bow shortening
Boxes
Bridles
Builders' hitch
Builders' knot
Bundles
Butchers' knots

Cable
Casks
Catspaws
Chain hitch
Chain knots
Chests
Cleat tie
Clinches
Close band
Clove hitch
Cordage
Core
Cotton
Cotton rope
Crown braid
Crowning
Crown knots
Cuckolds' necks
Cut splice

Deadeye lashing
Deadeyes
Dogshanks
Double chain
Double crown
Double figure-eight
Double knots
Double plait
Double wall
Double wall and crown

End
Ending
Ending rope
End pointing
Eyes
Eye splice

Fancy knots
Fibres
Fid
Figure-eight knot
Fisherman's hitch
Fisherman's knot
Fivefold knot
Flemish eye
Fourfold knot
Four-strand braid
Four-stranded rope
French shroud knot

Gaff-topsail halyard bend
Garrick bend
Gordian knot
Granny knot
Grass
Grommets
Gunners' knot
Gut lines

Half-hitch
Half-hitch and seizing
Half-hitch work
Handcuff kings
Handcuffs
Handles
Handspike
Hawser hitch
Hawsers
Hemp
Hemp rope
History of rope
Hitches
Hooks

Introduction

Jute

Lanyards
Larks' heads
Lashed cut splice
Lashings
Laying up
Leather braid
Left-handed rope
Long splice
Loop lashings
Loop knots
Loops

Magnus hitch
Manacles
Manila rope
Manrope knot
Marline
Marline spike
Marline-spike seamanship
Matthew Walker knot
Midshipman's hitch
Monkey chain
Mooring knots

Necklace tie
Nettles
Nooses

Open chain
Open-hand knot
Ordinary knot
Overhand knot

Packages
Parcelling
Parts of rope
Pier bend
Pointed rope
Pointing

Quoits

Reef knot
Reefing knots
Repairing rope
Rigging
Right-hand rope
Rings
Roband hitch
Rolling hitch
Rope
Rope buckles
Rose lashing
Round turn
Running bow-line
Running knot
Running noose

Sailors' knots
Seized shortening
Seizing
Selvagee
Selvagee board
Selvagee strap
Serving
Serving mallet
Sevagee
Sheaves
Sheepshanks
Shortenings
Short splice
Shroud knots

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction, Crafts, Ebooks

126 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1944

About the author

Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, known as Hyatt Verrill, was an American zoologist, explorer, inventor, illustrator and author. He was the son of Addison Emery Verrill (1839–1926), the first professor of zoology at Yale University.

Hyatt Verrill wrote on a wide variety of topics, including natural history, travel, radio and whaling. He participated in a number of archaeological expeditions to the West Indies, South, and Central America. He travelled extensively throughout the West Indies, and all of the Americas, North, Central and South. Theodore Roosevelt stated: "It was my friend Verrill here, who really put the West Indies on the map.”

During 1896 he served as natural history editor of Webster's International Dictionary., and he illustrated many of his own writings as well. In 1902 Verrill invented the autochrome process of natural-color photography.

Among his writings are many science fiction works including twenty six published in Amazing Stories pulp magazines. Upon his death, P. Schuyler Miller noted that Verrill "was one of the most prolific and successful writers of our time," with 115 books to his credit as well as "articles in innumerable newspapers." Everett F. Bleiler described Verrill's "lost race" stories as "more literate than most of their competition, but stodgy."

When the Moon Ran Wild (1962) was published posthumously using the name Ray Ainsbury.

Reviews

[Warren Fournier]

Radium-Age science fiction author A. Hyatt Verrill was editor of the popular science division of a boys' magazine when he penned and illustrated this little classic reference book. Verrill was quite the adventurer and explorer, and so he had first-hand knowledge and expertise with the practical arts of rope work needed in various applications. Now, to tie a knot has long been my Kryptonite. I remember my parents becoming exceedingly frustrated as they tried to help me practice tying my own shoelaces. Later, my choice of medical practice was influenced by my complete inability to tie surgical stitches. As this summer approaches, my wife has expressed wanting to do some boating and fishing. So I picked this book up hoping it would help me bone up on some badly needed skills.

Well, first of all, I was disappointed that there is no discussion on how to tie on a hook or lure to your fishing line. This book is entirely about the use of rope. It even teaches you how to weave your own rope from twine. If you want to learn the best way to secure a barrel for hoisting onto a cargo ship, this book is for you. If you want to make a citizen's arrest and all you have is a loop of rope, this book will teach you how to make a Tomfool knot which renders an effective pair of handcuffs that has foiled even the best escape artists. If you want to make a hangman's noose for your next Halloween costume, this book has got you covered. Need to lasso a raging bull or yolk a horse? Check out this book, pardner. But for everyday modern applications in the days of Home Depot and Menard's, it was a bit difficult to decipher.

The main problem was that Verrill gives very little explanation as to the purposes of each knot, nor does he compare and contrast the advantages of one knot over the other. He just bombards the reader with one knot after the other. The illustrations and descriptions of the execution of each knot are for the most part very clear, and you will have no problems practicing your rope skills with this book. But why you'd want to make such a knot in reality will require further research.

So overall, a great nostalgia piece and a fine book for learning almost any traditional knot for those of you into historical reenactments and Renaissance faires. But for a guy like me, Verrill would have me believe I am beyond help.

[Frank]

The material was okay.
In most cases, the illustrations were helpful and clear.
In a few cases, the illustrations were missing but the description was often clear enough to help one still tie the knot.
In one case the description indicates that the missing illustration is so exemplary that no description on how to tie the knot is needed. (I laughed out loud and then kept going.)

[George Walruff]

Knot your ordinary rope book

This is a good resource for anyone wishing to work with ropes. A lot of information on the use of strand ropes versus the more modern woven/braided ropes. Will have to one day play around with the old style ropes and then this book will really be helpful in tackling splices and such.

[MG Stough]

Nice Knot Book

If, like me, you love tying knots and reading about tying knots, then you will enjoy this one. A good portion is standard Ashley Book Of Knots repetition, but there are several gems buried in these pages, like the elusive Horse Bridal and Halter.

[Mike]

A book of knots with no illustrations?

The text is interesting, but without any pictures, it's a waste of time. A very sloppy way to convert to an ebook.

[Will Combs]

Super handy!

[Peter Heinrich]

Little explanation of why specific knots are useful, making the tying excercise rather academic. The illustrations are very poor in some cases, kind of a non-starter in a handbook designed to illustrate.

[Brantley]

The descriptions and illustrations were lacking, but the information on applications of various knots, splices, lashings, etc, was very helpful. Good for those who are already familiar with knots and lashings.

[Ian "Marvin" Graye]

You never know when you'll need a good knot.

[Ronald Broun]

A knot book without out drawings is useless.

[Roger Smith]

knots , splices and ropes is a very fine book and this is word 13 14 15 16 and 17