When I look at the bowline always at this front side ,
she is more beautiful and easy to see how the structure work.
According to your reply, see what you think if I put it this way.
Indeed, I concur in your thinking; but please note how
very much the presentation of the
bowline is NOT done
in this way. Then, consider how often the knot is NOT
understood! Yes, I'm suggesting that there is connection,
here. (In my first encounter w/knots at an age when
one would think that someone who now --adulthood--
is so immersed in them and w/some degree of *gift*
in fiddling/figuring (and much fumbling finding) would
have then begun this interest; but, no !? I only recall
thinking that the nipping of the loop in the
sheet bendwas a neat, efficient locking; I did NOT --or I've now
recollection of ...-- recognize the
bowline as being
that end-2-end knot with parts connected into an eye!?
My surmise that in part this was because the correspondence
wasn't presented directly --one *back* vs. one *front* side.
And I believe the the rockclimbing world's common belief
that the
bowline is harder to "recognize" than the
fig.8
eye knot is in part because the wrong side is looked at
(granted, the latter doesn't have a "side" issue).
It has two ways to transform the bowline, front side or the back side.
??! No, the
common bowlline (#1010) has two ways of going
topological by which side of the eye the tail is taken out
of, as I noted above --which poses some interesting
ruminations to have about using topology for some kind
of knots cataloging (since it implies that two topological
knots could claim relation to the practical knot
bowline)!
Separate from this is the
tail-outside/Cowboy bowline.
Amazing X1 has created so many knots and provide wonderful analysis
in this forum and he said Dan has tied all the knots in the universe.
His reply I think was slightly defensive and missed my
point : that X1 can come up with the URLinks to most
any image we've posted --and then even to ones not
in this forum(or to a post) !! --some gift of getting, that!

--dl*
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