[BTW, currently my computer isn't getting a cursor-activated
enlargement to Alan's middle image?]
I like this Anti-Myrtle loop, very simple small knot, easy to tie, jam proof.
Quick release version is TIB.
I think Anti-Myrtle is not inferior to the Myrtle at all.
This eye knot appeared in Knotting Matters some time
back (a decade?), called there "bollard loop" and (IIRC)
"Swedish Bowline"; it was by me referred to as the/an
"anti-BWL" but with MarkG. having hijacked and adapted
that term for other things, I'm left w/"bollard loop" or
some other idea; but not "anti-Myrtle", which puts the
cart before the horse, if nothing else.
It appears in the good (& pricey) book
Handbook of Fibre Rope Technologyin one photo (of a "knot"), credited to Samson Ropes.
It first appeared to me on various commercial-fishing
gear, where I could see that it benefited from easy
tying and more of a jamming set than the BWL.
I've also see it (or the inferior version, but with tail
secured) in trawler dock lines.
Note that these two knots are in a way complementary :
loading one fore-aft'd will give the other; Mark I think
highlights this in terms of knot handedness. But *THIS*
author finds the bollard loop to be better than the Myrtle,
but I'm not sure why :: the latter's S.Part turns around
the (semi-hard-loaded) Returning Eye Leg, vs. around
the unloaded/compressible/heat-absorbing tail.
But check w/particular material(s) you're using;
and put in a 2nd wrap in either case . . .
AND, importantly --as confusion can arise (speaking for
myself
)--, BOTH knots gain in performance by having
a >>2nd wrap<< --which gives 3 diameters for the S.Part
to surround (better contact area; more nearly approximating
a circle; MAYBE a bump in ultimate strength), and so in this
way, one can be more sure with this tie-in.
I like putting in a
cloverhand with the tail through the
S.Part's nipping turn; one can also add a "proper collar" vice
one of the turns.
--dl*
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