Fig. 6.
We now come to the various useful knots, bends, and hitches, all easy to acquire, but difficult to describe in words. However, if the reader will study the accompanying diagrams with a bit of rope in his hand, he will soon discover for himself how these knots are formed. They all serve their purpose admirably—that is, they are quickly made, are secure, and cannot slip, and yet are readily undone again.
We must explain that the standing part of a rope is the portion held in the hand; the bight is the loop made in tying the knot; the end is that extremity of the rope on which the knot is to be made.
First we have the common Overhand Knot ([Fig. 7]), to which we have already alluded.
Fig. 7.