When one wants to make an artificial handle for an old jug or some other vessel, the True-Lover’s knot is used, as seen in [Fig 16].
FIG. 16.—THE TRUE-LOVER’S KNOT.
Tie two loose knots, a, b, as in the first cut of [Fig. 17]; pass the bight a through the opening f, the bight b through g, pull the loops equal, and, to complete the knot as in second cut of [Fig. 17], join the ends c, d, by a long splice at e.
FIG. 17.
The Jar-sling, seen in Fig. 20, serves a similar purpose. You are out picnicking, perhaps, and you suddenly find it desirable to convert an empty gherkin bottle into a swing-vessel in which to take home alive some tadpoles or minnows. In a long piece of cord make a large loop as in [Fig. 18], and hold the bight against the standing parts, a, a; pass the thumb and forefinger of the other hand down through c, lay hold of b where the crook of the imaginary wire is seen, and draw it through c down a little below a, a, as in [Fig 19], d, and hold it there. Now pass the thumb and forefinger down through the opening e (in the way the wire goes), lay hold of g, and draw it up through e, forming the complete knot as in [Fig. 20].
One more knot, the Turk’s-head ([Fig. 23]), remains to be described before we pass to the briefer subject of hitches. Take a long piece of fishing-cord, place the end a against the forefinger, wind the cord around the two fingers and hold it with the thumb, as in [Fig. 21].