I ran across this knot
http://www.polocrosse.net/aus/qld/images/knot.jpg
with the caption:
"Net knot (tight): It is this tiny, intricate knot which separates polocrosse from all other racquet sports. A series of these small knots form a loose net in a squash racquet head to hold a polocrosse ball. The knots can be adjusted to throw the ball faster or slower depending on which position a player takes on the field."
My initial reading matches Nautile's. I see the two ends going off to the right as
legs of a bight, around which another piece of cord ties the knot. And the tightest
apparent turns of this knot are at the ends (left & right) of the whole. It hardly
looks like a knot that is ready for adjustment!
Google shows only a few other sightings of this (to my search so far, anyway);
and some of the knots shown less clearly (smaller) in another site appear to be the
more common "double" knot--like a double Becket Hitch (turns around the bight
appear to be parallel & even; an end appears to exit from the bight tip)!?
Also, in one of these photos, it appears that only a few of the nets' knots are of this
form, others being the simpler meshknot/bowline/// form. Perhaps that knot just
jams too much to adjust? --that the extra material passed through the bight is
what enables loosening of this knot?
*knudeNoggin*
