| Art | |
| » Sculpture designs and math models. by Carlo H. Séquin. | |
| » Mariyo Yagi's Rope Art. Making a huge rope as an art event. | |
| Basketry | |
| » Cornhusk Basket. Simple instructions on making a corn husk basket. | |
| » Baskets, etc. The site has been established for internet exchange of tips, questions, and general knowledge about splint, reed and willow basketmaking. | |
| » The Basket Maker. A rather vast source of basketry links. | |
| » Basket Class. Free patterns, classes, links, etc. | |
| » Cane & Basket Supply (CBS). Supplier of basket maker materials, pictures of cane webbibg patterns, etc. | |
| » The Caning Shop. Your source for gourd craft, chair caning and basketry. | |
| » Krayneck-Prince Studio. Francina and Neil Prince produce a variety of baskets. | |
| » Native American Coil Basketry. From the NativeTech site, information on baskets made with this technique. | |
| » Nipmuc Splint Basketry. From the NativeTech site, information on split wood basket. | |
| » Hopi Basketry. From the NativeWeb site, information on Prof. Carol Jolles' Anthropology 310b, Spring Quarter 1995 class. | |
| » Hopi Basketry. From the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office. | |
| » Basket Weaving: Old Tradition to New Art Form. This U. of Arizona site describes the progression of basket weaving among the Native Americans in the southwest. | |
| Braiding | |
| » Japanese braiding. Japanese braiding links at section Kumihimo | |
| » Braided Image Hair Braiding. Specialized in braiding caucasian hair. | |
| » Fingerlooped Braids. Fifteenth century fingerlooped braid reproductions by Carolyn Priest-Dorman. | |
| » Sprang. From the Regia Anglorum's site. Sometimes called twined plaiting, it is a technique in which the lengthways threads are twisted in such a way that a net-like textile is produced. (Regia Anglorum attempts to recreate a cross section of English life around the turn of the first millennium). | |
| » French Braid. Hair braiding. How to make a French Braid, by Roshan Pakistan. | |
| Business | |
| » Earth Guild. Tools, materials and books for traditional and contemporary handcrafts. Basketry, beading, dyes, cords, handling, polymer clays, design books, candlemaking, spinning & felting, soapmaking, yarns, papermaking, knitting & crochet, pottery, weaving, leatherwork, rugmaking, woodworking, folkwear patterns, books & magazines. Plus free Instruction sheets. | |
| » Cords. Materials for hammock & net making. Cotton blend netting twine, hammock cord, netting shuttles. | |
| » Golden Knots. Hand-crafted Knot Jewelry: Decorative Marlingspike Seamanship rendered in precious metal. | |
| » Knots & Whipping. A book on knots and whipping. | |
| » Making Rope with a Hand Operated Rope Machine. A book covering all details on getting started with your new rope making machine. Explores kinds of machines, rope design, rope-making processes. Plenty of detailed instructions and diagrams. | |
| » macramesuperstore.com. A retail seller of macramé cord and accessories. | |
| » Marlinespike.com. A source for traditional nautical gifts, decorative knotwork, and knot tying tools such as fids and prickers. Here you will find bell ropes, sea chests, and sea chest beckets made by Tim Whitten. | |
| » Marlow Ropes. Marlow Ropes, an accredited ISO 9001:2000 company are world leaders in pioneering the use of specialist fibres and rope constructions for the marine and offshore industries. | |
| » Nantucket Knotworks. Quality marlinespike knotwork by Charity I. Benz. | |
| » New England Ropes. Manufacturer of premium quality rope for 30 years. | |
| » Ulvilan köysipunomo. A ropemaker in Finland, in finnish only. Perinteisillä menetelmillä valmistetut, kotimaiset luonnonkuituköydet. Mittatilauksena asiakkaan tarpeen mukaan. | |
| » Seawear Nautical Knots Jewelry. Hand tied and woven nautical knot jewelry. | |
| » PB-Takilapaja Oy. PB-Takilapaja Ltd. is a family company making traditional seaman handicraft. Located in Helsinki, Finland. Click on link Kuvia tuotteista for pictures of products. | |
| Celtic knots | |
| » Steve Abbott's Computer Drawn Celtic Knotwork. Steve's site includes examples and a link to download his software. | |
| » Celtic knots. How to draw celtic knots. | |
| » How to draw Celtic knots. By Steve Abbott. Instructions and theory on designing celtic knots. | |
| » Celtic Knots BA. Celtic Knots BA is a Bannigan Artworks font family with 1 style. Create dynamic Celtic knot work strings with the Celtic Knotwork-BA font. Characters are sections of knots that are derived from ancient Celtic manuscripts such as the Book of Kells. | |
| » Celtic knotwork. How to construct celtic knotwork. | |
| Chinese knotting | |
| » Chinese Arts and Crafts. By Yvonne H. Chang | |
| » Chinese knots. Pictures of chinese knots from TSA UMASS. | |
| » Chinese knots and beads for jewellery. Designed and handcrafted by Suzen Millodot. | |
| » Chineseknotting.org. Chinese Knotting home page. Knots, applications, books, supplies, links, glossary, etc. | |
| » Chinese Decorative Knotting. Former site of Yvonne Chang. Picturegalleries, history, instructions and knotwork for sale. | |
| » Spinning for chinese knotting. by Gwen Powell. Instructions and projects | |
| » How to Tie a Chinese Button Knot. You can learn to tie this Chinese knot by following the steps shown on this site. | |
| Crochet | |
| » True Lovers' Knot. Knot stitch how-to with photos and drawings. This stitch is called love knot, lovers' knot, true lovers' knot, solomon's knot or hail stone. | |
| » Crochet. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Origins, Early history, Modern practice, Unusual shapes and materials, International crochet terms and notations, References, Related links. | |
| Fishing knots | |
| » Grant's Guide to Fishing Knots. Instructions on clinch knot, jansik special, palomar knot, hangman's knot, scaffold knot, snelling a hook, joining line to line, blood knot, uni-knot version of the hangman's knot, surgeon's knot, spider hitch, offshore swivel knot, surgeons end loop, blood bight knot, dropper loop, tucked sheet bend, float stop, turle knot, double turle knot. | |
| » Knots. Fishing knots from shrimpin.com. Including Loop Knot, Half Blood Knot, Clinch Knot, Jansik Special, Palomar Knot, Uni- Knot, Snelling A Hook, Joining Line To Line, Uni-Knot Version Of The Hangman's Knot, Surgeon's Knot, Spider Hitch, Offshore Swivel Knot, Surgeons End Loop, Blood Bight Knot, Dropper Loop, Tucked Sheet Bend, Float Stop, Turle Knot, Double Turle Knot, Trilene knot, Orvis knot, The Albright Knot, The King Sling, The Double Uni-Knot, The Bimini Twist, Crawford knot, | |
| » Kilroys knot index. Basic advice on tying knots, detailed instructions on clinch knot, surgeon's knot, surgeon's loop, albright knot, backing to fly reel, duncan loop (uni-knot), barrel knot (blood knot), perfection loop, nail knot, loop-to-loop connection. | |
| » Fishing knots. Instructions on blood knot, improved clinch knot, surgeon's knot, dropper loop. | |
| » Fishing knots. Provides instructions for tying fishing knots illustrated and described. | |
| » TnOutdoorsmen. Covers common fishing knots including the arbor knot, the berkley braid, the king sling knot and the nail knot. Step by step illustrations and instructions. | |
| Forums and groups | |
| » KnotTyers. A Yahoo Club and discussion forum set up by the North American Branch of the International Guild of Knot Tyers Supports graphics and email notification. Covers all knotting topics. | |
| » Marlinspikeknotworks. Where fancy knots come alive. Dedicated to decorative knotting and leather braiding. | |
| » Rope Making. A Yahoo discussion group on the craft. | |
| » SparTalk. A Message Board for yacht riggers maintained by Brion Toss. | |
| » Ihan itse. Ihan itse on keskustelufoorumi kaikille kädentaidoille. A discussion board for all kind of handcraft, including ropework. In finnish only. | |
| » rec.crafts.knots. The only usenet newsgroup devoted to knots. This group does not allow the posting of graphics files. Read the Rec.crafts.knots FAQ before posting messages. | |
| General | |
| » Brion Toss Rigging. The professional ship rigging site of Brion Toss, a leading authority on ship rigging. Includes a catalog, news, links, and Spar Talk discussion board. | |
| » Endless Knot. The Endless Knot is a symbolic knot used in Tibetan Buddhism. It is known as Shrivatsa in Sanskrit and Dpal be'u in Tibetan. | |
| » Rope. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about non-metallic ropes. | |
| » Knot Tyers Wiki. An experimental Wiki created to establish the value of using a Wiki to resolve some of the issues involved in creating a standardised knot Index and naming system. Promoted by Derek Smith. | |
| » The Knotting Dictionary of Kännet. Maintained by Jan Korpegård. Under each knot, Korpegård gives the knot's name in 10 languages, and asks readers of other languages to send him the names of the same knots in their languages. He even provides the form for submitting the names electronically. Also available in Swedish. | |
| » 6-Knot Challenge. Knot graphics for the 6-knot challenge. | |
| » Knot. A online knotting journal from Paul Shin-Hong Hahn. | |
| » Hojojutsu. Hojojutsu is an obscure but interesting part of the cultural history of martial arts. HOJOJUTSU is the feudal martial skill of restraining a prisoner with rope. | |
| » Knot Tying Resources. A page from Martin Combs. | |
| » Knot Knotes. Includes scout knots, knot related fonts for your pc, a small square knotting project, the chinese dragonfly knot, strength considerations, the truckers hitch... And much more. | |
| » Books on knots and tall ships. Books on knots and tall ships and a few cords and thimbles, a page from Martin Combs. | |
| » Animated Knots by Grog. A page by by Alan Grogono.Animated knots index. Knot-Tying for boating, climbing, fishing, scouting, and arborists. | |
| » Canal Decorative Ropework. From Canal Junction. | |
| » Nylon Highway. The magazine of rope, climbing, and cave exploration. From the Vertical Section of the National Speleological Society. | |
| » Knots and knot tying. By Andre v.d. Salm of Netherland. Pictures, links, calendar, instructions etc. | |
| » Knot Tying Notation. By Peter Suber. The purpose of this notation is not to instruct beginners. The purpose is to help advanced knotters (1) communicate without illustrations, (2) communicate details difficult to discern from illustrations, (3) record their experiments and discoveries, and (4) analyze different tying methods. | |
| » Notes On Clinton R. Bailey Sr. By Peter Suber. Notes from a discussion with Clinton ('Skip') Bailey Jr., the son of the world knot tying speed record-holder. | |
| » Six Exploding Knots. By Peter Suber. Clove hitch biting a bight, figure-eight biting a bight, sliding butterfly, sliding sheet bend, sliding chinese crown, double carrick bend. | |
| » Knot So Fast. A proposal for regulating the world knot tying speed record, from Peter Suber. | |
| » Folsom's Knots and Knotting Page. A page by From Alan Folsom with knots and knot links. Covers the basic knots, 50 more advanced knots, animations, turk's heads, knot knives, knot books, and more… | |
| » Frayed Knot Arts. Square-knot belts and straps, fancy-worked wheels and other nautical art objects and jewelry items. | |
| » Fancy knotwork from Sibbo. Fancy Knotwork from Sibbo. Kari Nikrus' knot page. | |
| » Rockin Billy's. Rockin Billy's knot page. | |
| » Notable Knot Index. Loops & nooses, bends, hitches and more. FAQ, tutorials etc. | |
| » Knots, Splices and Rope Work. The Project Gutenberg eBook by A. Hyatt Verrill. | |
| » Willeke's Knotted Ideas. By Willeke van der Ham. | |
| » The International Guild of Knot Tyers. This is the organization to join if you are a serious knot tyer. There are many branches all over the world, but only few with their own website. Brances with their own webpages are North American Branch, Pacific Americas Branch and Texas Branch. | |
| » Alaska Museum of Fancy Knots. Probably the vastest picture collection of fancy knotwork on the net. Contents includes allso links, instructions, discussionboards etc. | |
| » Knots.com. This domain is mainly a site with fishing links, but has allso macrame links. | |
| » NetKnots.com. A collection of fishing, boating, outdoor and paddling knots. | |
| » Knots online. By Northern Mountain Supply. Several well-illustrated knots for camping and outdoor activities. | |
| » Ropers Knots Page. Probably the most thorough page of links to knot sites. In english and dutch. | |
| » Tall Ships Challenge. Muskegon 2001, photos on rigging and a close up of fancy knot work. | |
| » Phiala's String Pages. Tablet (card) weaving, loom weaving, sprang, braiding, ply-split braiding, knots, naalbinding, lucet, spinning, dyeing, felt balls, viking textile tools, bookbinding, photo gallery, link collections, medieval braids, fingerloop braiding, and much more. | |
| » Forty Knots. From www.uberpest.com | |
| » What are ROPES doing in Weavers Hand?. By Ann Norman. Handcraft made of not so common rope. | |
| Instructions | |
| » Marlinspike Knowing Your Knots. Exellence in online instruction' 2000 award winner. Bowlines, hitches, bends, stopper knots, relative strengths of common knots, splicing double braid, the monkey's fist. | |
| » GORP. Knot of the week. | |
| » Netmaking for floats. Diagram for making net floats by Phillip Baker. | |
| » Get knotted. Animated knots for scouts. Bowline, clove hitch, figure of eight knot, flemish knot, savoy knot, fisherman's knot, angler's knot, english knot, englishman's bend, halibut knot, true lover's bend, waterman's knot, lark's head, cow hitch, lanyard hitch, reef knot, square knot, rolling hitch, magner's hitch, magnus hitch, round turn and two half hitches, sheepshank, sheet bend, flag bend, common bend, sheet bend - double, sheet bend - left handed, thief knot, thumb knot, overhand knot, timber hitch. | |
| » Complete Guide to Knots. Instructions to tie several practical knots. | |
| » Knots. Animated instructions by Mark Rosenstein. Including Anchor Hitch, Bowline, Clove Hitch, Figure Eight, Rolling Hitch, Sheet Bend, Reef Knot. | |
| » Basic netmaking. Landing net, how to close or seam a net, how to make a castnet, castnet secrets, how to mend a net, how to measure netting mesh size, how to make a double selvage edge. | |
| » Double Surgeon's Loop. From Black Lake New York. | |
| » Boating knotsFrom boatingbasicsonline.com. . Cleat hitch, bowline, square knot (reef knot), round turn and two half hitches, clove hitch. | |
| » Know your knots. A few common outdoor knots. | |
| » The Chinese Button Knot. Detailed instructions on how to tie the chinese button knot. | |
| » String Figures from Around the World. by Richard Darsie. Stringfigures, instructions and pictures. | |
| » Knight on: Knots and Tackles. Overhand knot, reef knot, common bend, Half hitches, clove hitch, timber hitch, blackwall hitch, rolling hitch, bowline knot, running bowline, bowline on a bight, fishermans bend, topsail halyard bend, topsail sheet bend, sheepshank, various tackles, single-whip purchase, whip-upon-whip purchase, gun-tackle purchase, luff-tackle purchase, watch tackle, clip-hooks. | |
| » Turks Head. Instruktons for a 5x4 (five-lead, four-bight) turkshead knot. | |
| » Knots, Splices and Rope Work. The Project Gutenberg eBook by A. Hyatt Verrill. | |
| » Rope, Lines, Knots, Bends and Hitches. From www.realknots.com. Marlinspike Seamanship – Common Terms, Types And Uses of Rope or Line, Working with Fiber Line, Coiling down line, Worming, parceling and serving, Knots in the end of a single line, Knots for bending two lines together, Knots for securing a line to a ring or spar, Knots worked in the end of a line. | |
| » Knot Page of Mac Stevens. Top quality knot animations. | |
| » Knot instructions. By Willeke van der Ham. The thumb knot or overhand knot, Splice back to a round braid, Round braid of four strands, the traditional way, Round braid of four strands, alternative way, Turks head knot, Three bight, four lead turks head knot, Ocean mat Shamrock knot, The filling for the wing, Crown knot, Wall knot, Diamond knots, Petal knot, Petal knot 'up side down', The star knot, The square knot, The crossing, The square knot turning, The square knot turning the other way round, To start the square knots in a point, The half hitch knot, The larks head knot, The necklace knot. | |
| » Different Types of KnotsFrom Visual.info. Instructions on overhand knot, figure of eight knot, sheet knot, double shell bend, clove hitch, two half-hitches, sheep shank, studding sail, two round turns and a half-hitch, timber-hitch, half-hitch, bowline, reef-knot, halyard knot.. | |
| » Klabautermanns Knotentafel. Animated knotting instructions from Matthias Böving. | |
| » Alaska Museum of Fancy Knots. Detailed instructions for a star knot, little lump knot and nantucket sailor's bracelets. | |
| » Knot work. The macramé site. Learn how to tie the basic knots for macramé. | |
| » Muutama solmu moneen käyttöön . By Hannu Keskitalo, finnish only. Ashleyn päätesolmu, jalussolmu, viulusolmu, kahdeksikko, telinesolmu, jousenjännesolmu, zeppeliinikytky, vanttisolmu, kalastajan sorkka, paalusolmu. | |
| » Decorative Knots. The Most Useful Rope Knots for the Average Person to Know, by Dave Root. | |
| » Splicing document (1Mb pdf). A splicing document from Marlow Ropes. | |
| » Spinning for chinese knotting. by Gwen Powell. Instructions on: Double coin, double connection, pan chang, clover leaf, good luck, triple connection, button, phoenix tail, macramé square, brocade or congregated. There's allso a few project possibilities dedscribed with photos. | |
| » Splicing Guides. Select the kind of rope you want to splice, click, and follow the detailed, illustrated directions. From New England Ropes. | |
| » Japanese glass fishing float nets. How to weave your own. | |
| » How To Tie Popular Knots. From George Merrick Troop 7 of Coral Gables. Overhand knot, sailor's knot, square knot, lark's head, figure eight knot, stevedore's knot, killik hitch, sheet bend, double sheet bend, timber hitch, lariat loop, overhand bow, cat's paw, clove hitch, blackwall hitch, granny knot, fisherman's knot, double carrick bend, fisherman's eye, sheepshank, miller's knot, running knot, bowline, double figure eight, bowline on bight, double overhand, slippery hitch, half hitch, bow knot, two half hitches, hitching tie, rolling hitch, chain hitch, taut-line hitch, halyard bend, fisherman's bend, surgeon's knot, marlinspike hitch, midshipman's hitch, tiller's hitch. | |
| » What a knot page. From Woodburyscouts.org. This is not to say that this is not a page, but a knot page. | |
| Kumihimo | |
| » Kumihimo home page. Kumihimo is the Japanese name for the art of cord-making via braiding. Of course, braiding is no more an exclusively Japanese art than is paper folding, but it serves as a convenient term to distinguish the craft from other braiding techniques. | |
| » Melbourne Kumihimo Group. About Japanese braiding | |
| » Japanese braiding. From the California Academy of Sciences, photos from a class with Roderick Owen. | |
| » Orion's Plumage. from Rosalie Neilson. The site includes information and software for kumihimo. | |
| Linklists | |
| » Alaska Museum of Fancy Knots. A site about fancy knotting, vast content includes allso links to knotpictures, instructions, suppliers and much more. | |
| » The KnotPlot Site. Here you will find a collection of knots and links, viewed from a (mostly) mathematical perspective. | |
| » Ropers Knots Page. The Web Knot index | |
| » TextileLinks. by Rosemary Brock. Articles and links covering spinning, weaving, quilting, felting, knitting, sewing, dyeing, and the whole world of textiles. Links to supply sources, organizations, museums, events, training, etc. | |
| Macrame | |
| » Knot work. The macramé site. Learn how to tie the basic knots for macramé. Free patterns, instructions and information. | |
| » Knots.com. This domain is mainly a site with fishing links, but has allso macrame links. | |
| » macramesuperstore.com. A retail seller of macramé cord and accessories. | |
| Matemathical knots | |
| » Knot an illusion. Three 3d pictures of mathematical knots. | |
| » Monster sets. Pictures of mathematical knots. | |
| » Simple crossing projections of a polygon. Classification of knots by the minimal number of crossings. | |
| » Torus knots. Torus knots and links by crossing number. | |
| » Woven Polyhedra. By Adrian Rossiter. These models have been produced while testing the latest version of the Packinon off2pov program. | |
| » Mathematics. A gallery of mathemathical knots from Mathcad.com. | |
| » The KnotPlot Site. Here you will find a collection of knots and links, viewed from a (mostly) mathematical perspective. | |
| Necktie knots | |
| » Original Rope Tie. By Marvin Minsky. Not a tie knot, but a knotted tie. | |
| » To tie a tie. Several way's of tying your necktie. | |
| » How to tie a tie. How to tie a tie. | |
| Needle stitch | |
| » Stitch Library. From Needle Maid Designs, a site dedicated to the work of the late Martha Schmidt. A vast collection of stiches and techniques. | |
| Origami | |
| » Mini-Lotus Flower Folding Instructions. Instructions with photo's of the work in progress, pluss a few picks of a complete mini-lotus. | |
| » Paperfolding.com. An page dedicated to paperfolding (origami) with pictures, history, instructions, linklists… | |
| » Tammy Yee's Origami Page. Tammy Yee's origami page- easy paper folding crafts for children. | |
| Plaiting | |
| » Plaiting. Look for more links at the Braiding section. | |
| Rope making | |
| » Dave & Mike Ropesmiths. Cordage historians and makers of historically correct rope. | |
| » Rope Making from Natural Fibres for Kite Tail Trailing Lines. By Uli Wahl. Special natural fibre trailing-tail for kites. | |
| » Rope Making. From Cornell University. Tools, Build a Rope Machine, Technique, Make Rope, History, Science & Technology, Rope making links. | |
| » Rope Making. By Frank Stoll | |
| » Rope Machine. From MK Drafting & Design. | |
| » The Incredible Rope-Making Machine. An article from Mother Earth News Issue # 42 - November/December 1976 | |
| » Rope-making. From Royal Botanic Gardens, KEW. What are ropes made from? Rope manufacture. Rope manufacture. Different types of rope. History. | |
| » Rope-making Step-by-step. The art, craft and history of rope making, with bibliography, pictures, and significant links to related sites. | |
| » Rope-making. From Ropesandtwines.com. What are ropes made from? Rope manufacture. The rope-walk. History. | |
| Software | |
| » Animated Knot Tying Programs for Windows. Software to show you how to tie your knots. | |
| » Packinon. Packinon is a suite of programs for the generation, manipulation, and visualisation of point distributions and polyhedra. | |
| » Steve Abbott's Computer Drawn Celtic Knotwork. Steve's site includes examples and a link to download his software. | |
| » Braid Runner. The software program for kumihimo enthusiasts. | |
| Temari | |
| » www.temari.com. The art of Japanese thread balls. | |
| » www.temarikai.com. An american site with instructions, patterns, pictures, resources… | |
| Weaving | |
| » Braid weaving. The Regia Anglorum's site offers an introduction to this technique. (Regia Anglorum attempts to recreate a cross section of English life around the turn of the first millennium). | |