The Ashley Book of Knots

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The knowledge gained shall expand your skills necessary for basic survival and you will find helpful in everyday living situation. Featuring every practical knot, what it looks like, who uses it, where it comes from and how to tie it; with 7000 drawings representing over 3800 knots.

Although the drawings are clean and simple, I am especially thick-headed when it comes to knots, which is why I am reading this book. On a gray day when I'm in no mood for much I can open ABoK to an arbitrary page and feel myself decompress as I browse. The edition with the the cover illustration of the sailor on the pier is hilarious if you know what knot he's tying: a handcuff knot. Published in 1944, so there's a lot of interesting history in it as well as lots of fascinating information on useful and decorative knots.If you are really into knots like I am and want to view one of the best source books on knots then I highly recommend this book. Faber Members get access to live and online author events and receive regular e-newsletters with book previews, promotional offers, articles and quizzes. With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics. I've referred to this beautifully illustrated book many times when looking for just theright way to rig something up in the yard, fastening cargo to the roof of the car, tying my kids to the flagpole.

Annie Proulx, with its descriptions and illustrations of various knots providing the chapter headings. What it does not have is information about modern synthetic ropes and specialized knots that have been developed for them. Those skills are at the fore in this work, his illustrations of knots being among the clearest and most understandable in any work of the kind. Some of the illustrations are a bit hard to follow; updated diagrams would make this book the essential reference it deserves to be.

But it's so much more than just an enyclopedia of knots; it's also a glimpse into the history of their use and utility. His ruling passions were marine painting and knot-tying, on which he was one of the world’s leading authorities. if you can appreciate a magnificent effort by one person to know, record and share everything there is to know about one thing, you'll appreciate this volume.

More knots then the internet, honestly in a decision between referencing the internet or this book, I would look in the book first! Ashley has devoted eleven years to writing this book, and it is based on forty years of looking for, trying out, and thinking up new knots. x 9" The Ashley Book of Knots is an encyclopedia of knots written and illustrated by the American sailor and artist Clifford W. This is probably the most important book on the subject, and has more knots listed than any other book. This book and a piece of cord will open a new and challenging world of practical adventure to readers of all ages.He was an author and painter of consummate skill, well regarded for his paintings of ships and the sea and for his illustrations.

If you appreciate resourcefulness, art, sailing, camping, flying, needlecraft, knitting, crochet, history, physics, tenacity, dedication, collecting, music, carpentry, or anything really.Ashley's wonderful 1944 work, The Ashley Book of Knots, which I had the good fortune to find at a yard sale for a quarter, this book would have remained just a thread of an idea. Knot tying is probably in no danger of disappearing, but certainly fewer people are learning to tie them. The Ashley Book of Knots is an encyclopedia of knots written and illustrated by the American sailor and artist Clifford W. Due to its scope and wide availability, The Ashley Book of Knots has become a significant reference work in the field of knotting.