Shoelace knot the granny (or duffer's) knot. This version will also produce asymmetrical slips; one pointing down the other up. Shoelace knot The shoelace knot, or bow knot, is commonly used for tying shoelaces and bow ties. The shoelace knot is a doubly slipped reef knot formed by joining the ends of whatever is being tied with a half hitch, folding each of the exposed ends into a loop (bight) and joining the loops with a second half hitch. The size of the loops and the length of the exposed ends are adjusted when the knot is tied. It has the stability
A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven () is a 2004 novel by the Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgård. It is known as A Time for Everything in the United States. Its narrator is a man who has decided to write a book about the history of angels; his main source is a 16th-century treatise on angels by an Italian theologian, who encountered a pair of angels when he was young. The novel's Norwegian and British titles are a quotation from "Ecclesiastes". Salley Vickers reviewed the book for "The Guardian", and wrote that