Just a final note on the names of the "Pipa Knot". The name on the knot board posted by kenneth,
http://www.agrussell.com/accessories/gifts/first_mates_knot_board.html , is the "Pear Knot". It is the name in Graumont and Hensel, "Encyclopedia on Knots and Fancy Rope Work", pg. 306, pl. 157, fig. 298 of the "Pipa Knot".
Knot names remind me of Lewis Carrol's satire, "Through the Looking-Glass". In Chapter 8, Alice is talking to the Knight who is about to sing her a song.
Edited it goes something like the following.
Knight: "The name of the song is called 'Haddocks' Eyes'."
Alice: "Oh, that's the name of the song, is it?".
Knight: "No, you don't understand ... That's what the name is called. The name really is 'The Aged Aged Man'."
Alice: "Then I ought to have said 'That's what the song is called'?".
Knight: "No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is called 'Ways and Means': but that's only what it's called, you know!"
Alice: "Well, what is the song, then?"
Knight: "The song really is 'A-sitting On a Gate'."
Cheers - Brian.
Ps. Kenneth, try again, we have all had this experience or a variation of this experience when learning new knots. Welcome to the club!
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