Fig. 46.—Lark’s Head.
Fig. 47.—Lark’s Head Stoppered.
If, instead of the ends being brought down outside the bight after it has been passed through the ring, they are put through it, a “single lark’s head” (Fig. 46) is the result, and Fig. 47 shows the same knot “stoppered.” It may be made by passing a bight through the ring, and drawing the two parts of the rope through the bight; or where this is not practicable by reason of one end of the rope being fast, the end may be passed up through the ring behind the standing part, and down through the ring and bight again. Sometimes, instead of stoppering this knot with an overhand knot, as in Fig. 47, the end is seized to the standing part with twine.
Fig. 48.—Lark’s Head with Crossed Ends.
Fig. 49.—Double Lark’s Head.
A “lark knot” with crossed ends (Fig. 48) is made in the manner above described, except that the end comes over instead of through the bight. The ends are often stoppered as in the last knot.
If the standing part is taken in one hand and the end in the other, and drawn apart, it is nothing more than a “clove-hitch” or “builder’s knot” (Fig. 25, p. 31) under a different name.