SOME BASIC TERMINOLOGY IN CASA KNOTS All TH are tubular knots. It means that the start and the end of such a knot coincide. In addition, when one counts the number of bights, the end of the final bight coincides with the start of the first bight. Furthermore, when I make the calculations of the disposition of the first wrap, I use the numbers on the picture below that are in red. That is, I do not use the bights, but the crossings of the rope. However, the use of this pattern is characteristic for one thing – when the working end crosses the standing end, for instance in position 1 (in the lower or upper part of the picture), it means that bight No2 is started; when the working end crosses position 2, then bight No3 is started, etc. To summarise: when the working end crosses the rope in pos Z , then bight No (Z+1) is started. THIS IS ONE OF THE DIFFERENCES WITH THE WAY SIDNEY WOOD ON HIS WEB DOES THE CALCULATIONS FOR BUILDING CASA KNOTS. His web is accessible on http://www.taylortel.net/~stwood/index.html . 1
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SOME BASIC TERMINOLOGY IN CASA KNOTS
All TH are tubular knots. It means that the start and the end of such a knot coincide. In addition, when one counts the number of bights, the end of the final bight coincides with the start of the first bight. Furthermore, when I make the calculations of the disposition of the first wrap, I use the numbers on the picture below that are in red. That is, I do not use the bights, but the crossings of the rope. However, the use of this pattern is characteristic for one thing – when the working end crosses the standing end, for instance in position 1 (in the lower or upper part of the picture), it means that bight No2 is started; when the working end crosses position 2, then bight No3 is started, etc. To summarise: when the working end crosses the rope in pos Z, then bight No (Z+1) is started. THIS IS ONE OF THE DIFFERENCES WITH THE WAY SIDNEY WOOD ON HIS WEB DOES THE CALCULATIONS FOR BUILDING CASA KNOTS. His web is accessible on http://www.taylortel.net/~stwood/index.html.
Another thing to be mentioned is the direction in which the knot is built – it starts from the lower
right-hand side and continues in the direction shown by the red arrow.