Knots, Splices, and Rope Work - A Practical Treatise

The number of knots, ties, bends, hitches, splices, and shortenings in use is almost unlimited and they are most confusing and bewildering to the uninitiated. The most useful and ornamental, as well as the most reliable, are comparatively few in number, and in reality each knot learned leads readily to another. This book endeavored describes them in such a manner that their construction may be readily understood and mastered.