Eskimo bowline sheet bend. (The image above with red rope would result in an ends-opposite (and inferior) sheet bend; the version shown on the right side would give a same-side sheet bend (ABoK #1431). The common bowline when ring-loaded becomes effectively an inferior version of the Lapp bend, and so can slip and untie; the wrongly demeaned "left-handed"/"cowboy" bowline becomes the proper Lapp bend, and should hold.) A Cossack knot is another name for the same knot. A slipped version of the Cossack knot is called Kalmyk loop. Eskimo bowline The Eskimo bowline is an 'anti-bowline' which is in a class of
Knot damage. Macramé, one kind of textile, is generated exclusively through the use of knotting, instead of knits, crochets, weaves or felting. Macramé can produce self-supporting three-dimensional textile structures, as well as flat work, and is often used ornamentally or decoratively. Knots weaken the rope in which they are made. When knotted rope is strained to its breaking point, it almost always fails at the knot or close to it, unless it is defective or damaged elsewhere. The bending, crushing, and chafing forces that hold a knot in place also unevenly stress rope fibers and ultimately lead to a reduction in