The knots ranged from one of the strongest basic knots in existence, the reef knot, to one so weak that it can unravel if ...

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 ...

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 livelihoods rely on knot ...