Even our deep experience with knots from tying shoelaces and unraveling cords cannot overcome the deficit, though Croom guesses that a sailor or a survivalist whose livelihood relies on knot strength ...

Knowing how to tie a knot is an essential set of skills needed ... It's also known as the weaver's knot, and is widely used by sailors, although it also comes in handy when you are out in the ...

houses The Museum of Knots and Sailors’ Ropework in a shed in his garden. He explains how humans have been tying things together for millennia. Today, a cargo net might be made up of a series of ...