Knot | Description | Image |
Adjustable bend | A bend that can be easily lengthened or shortened. | |
Albright special | A low-profile bend suitable for monofilament or small-stuff. Mainly used in angling. | |
Ashley's bend | An original bend by Clifford Ashley consisting of interlocking overhand loops. | |
Beer knot | A bend suitable for tubular webbing. Its most common application is in slings used in rock climbing. | |
Blood knot | A low-profile bend most usefully employed for joining sections of monofilament nylon line while maintaining a high portion of the line's inherent strength. | |
Butterfly bend (Alpine butterfly bend) | A bend analogue of the butterfly loop. | |
Carrick bend | A bend that is particularly appropriate for very heavy rope or cable that is too large and stiff to be easily formed into other common bends. | |
Fisherman's knot
Double fisherman's knot
Triple fisherman's knot |
A symmetrical bend tied with two overhand knots around the standing end of the other line.
A variation of the fisherman's knot consisting of two double overhands.
A variation of the fisherman's knot consisting of triple overhands. |
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Flemish bend | A bend based on the figure-eight knot. | |
Harness bend | A bend that can be pulled taut before securing. | |
Heaving line bend | A bend suitable for tying smaller lines to larger lines, such as in attaching playing strings to the thick silk eyes of the anchorage knot. | |
Hunter's bend | A bend consisting of two interlocking overhand knots. | |
Nail knot | A bend used in fly fishing to join lines of different diameters. It is useful but difficult to tie by hand. | |
One-sided overhand bend | A bend formed by tying a single overhand knot in two lines facing the same direction. |
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Racking bend | A bend for joining lines of different diameters. It is more secure than the heaving line bend or sheet bend due to the woven figure-eight knot "rackings". |
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Reever Knot | A secure and compact bend. | |
Sheet bend | A common bend for joining lines of different diameters. |
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Shroud knot | A multi-strand bend used to join two ends of laid (or twisted) rope together. | |
Simple Simon over | A bend for joining two lines two lines together | |
Simple Simon under | A bend that is more secure than the similar Simple Simon over. | |
Single carrick bend | | |
Surgeon's knot | A bend commonly employed in small-stuff. It can be pulled taut before securing. |
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True lover's knot | A bend consisting of interlocking overhand knots. |
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Water knot | A bend suitable for flat material such as leather or webbing. |
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Zeppelin bend | A bend consisting of interlocking overhand knots. It is similar to the hunter's bend but offers advantages in that it is jam resistant and easy to untie. |
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