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Dennis Wilkinson
Dennis Wilkinson
@djwtwo@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

My online Moby Dick book club's reading for the week starts with Chapter 47, "The Mat Maker", which opens with Queequeg and Ishmael working on sword mats. Since on the nerd Venn diagram I sit at the intersection of "in an online Moby Dick book club" *and* "a member of the International Guild of Knot Tyers"", I decided to tie an example of a sword mat (which is the flat part of this assembly; the ring at the end is technically a simple ringbolt hitch.)

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#photography #knots #knotwork #igkt

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A photograph of a sword mat tied with a "buttonholed" ring at the end, next to a reference card from the International Guild of Knot Tyers.
A photograph of a sword mat tied with a "buttonholed" ring at the end, next to a reference card from the International Guild of Knot Tyers.
A photograph of a sword mat tied with a "buttonholed" ring at the end, next to a reference card from the International Guild of Knot Tyers.
A photograph of a sword mat being tied off of a "buttonholed" ring, on an improvised "loom". One of the two chopsticks that served as the "swords" for the mat-making is visible holding the warp lines open near the bottom of the image.
A photograph of a sword mat being tied off of a "buttonholed" ring, on an improvised "loom". One of the two chopsticks that served as the "swords" for the mat-making is visible holding the warp lines open near the bottom of the image.
A photograph of a sword mat being tied off of a "buttonholed" ring, on an improvised "loom". One of the two chopsticks that served as the "swords" for the mat-making is visible holding the warp lines open near the bottom of the image.
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