It is a "new" hitch, indeed - considered that it may well had appeared in a picture only in 2011 :
http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=3288.msg19765#msg19765 http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=4975.msg32917#msg32917 However, given its
maximum simplicity
( I can not imagine a simpler
permanent and "tight" hitch than this...), we can safely bet that it has been tied many times in the past - at least by
humans, because it may be "
overcomplicated" for a weaver
bird !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploceidae Just like you, I had first tied it on marine ropes, but then I realized that it works on more slippery ropes, too, when the nub is and remains in contact with the hitched object. Pull the Standing End against the pole with one hand, while you push the nub towards its surface with the other. When the overhand knot will clinch on itself, its segments will "bite" the Standing End, and will immobilize it. Then, you can pull the Standing End even more, using both hands - and feet ( like a rower ) if you wish !
The single wrap of the hitch will remain tensioned, even if/when the pulling of the Standing End will stop. That is the function of the "tight" hitches, which makes them suitable as binders, too.
http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=4155.0 For a more tight and secure hitch, you have to utilize the mechanical advantage offered by the
Cow hitch and the opposed bights locking mechanism - so you have to use another "
overcomplicated" ( for weaver birds ) two-wraps hitch, like the
Locked Single hitch:
http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=4035.msg24785#msg24785 http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=4035.msg24787#msg24787 http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=4441.msg28170#msg28170 http://igkt.net/sm/index.php?topic=4814.msg31328#msg31328 I supposed that everything of so simple a nature had already being discovered. - but it hadn t !
