asked 100 scouts from 100 counties around the world to each contribute a knot
I must concur in Derek's caution: how is it to be precluded (or otherwise accepted)
that the collection doesn't comprise multiples of the few known knots (or even, to a
lesser degree, some several instances of duplication)?!
One way to ensure that this doesn't happen would be to have this century-count
of Scouts organizations pick from a queue of 100 (or more) knots pre-selected;
the contribution would be the physical item. Perhaps some hybrid of old & new
could be had, asking first for offers of knots from the collective, then assigning
what can be done to some several (likely no more than 25 differences would
be found?) groups and then having those left out go choose from the set of
options. --a list though that would need continual updating so that there isn't
a continual need for conflict resolution (choosing same knot by two or more ...).
And it's not as though each such knot can bring along some history, and in
many cases, even an agreed name!
But Scouts are about the future, too, they must hope.
Let the count begin by a receipt and growing list of
contributions;
when that runs dry, then one will need to seek "new" knots, and tyers
for them.
--dl*
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