| Button knot | |
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| Names | Button knot, Stopper knots, As numbered in picture : 1- Fiador, 2- Sailor's diamond (#693), 3- Figure-eight loop, 4- Diamond, 5- knife lanyard, 6- Chinese button, 7- Chinese button doubled, 8- True lover's, 9- Ashley's, 10- Celtic button, 11- Celtic button on the bight (and thus doubled and with lanyard loop), 12- Friendship, 13- Figure-eight, 14- Overhand |
| Typical use | Keeps the line from slipping out of things. |
A button knot is a knot that forms a bulge of thread. Button knots are essentially stopper knots, but may be esthetically pleasing enough to be used as a button on clothes.
The single-strand button is a third type of knob knot, in which the working end leaves the knot at the neck, parallel with the standing part, so that the two parts, or ends, together form a stem. The lay of the two ends is the same, and the knot is symmetrical throughout.
There are many methods for tying button knots, such as the Chinese button knot, the Celtic button knot and the monkey fist. The Ashley Book of Knots contains over a hundred examples.
Celtic button knot single, with 4 steps of tying it
Celtic button knot double, flat and tightened forms
Celtic button knot formed on the bight, untightened - flat
Celtic button knot formed on the bight, tightened
Chinese button knot front side
Chinese button knot back side
Rose knot on 2 ropes step1 wall
Rose knot on 2 ropes step2 crown
Rose knot on 2 ropes step3
Rose knot on 2 ropes step4 second wall
Rose knot on 2 ropes step5
Rose knot on 2 ropes step6 second crown and tucked ends
Rose knot on 2 ropes top view
Rose knot on 2 ropes side view
Rose knot on 2 ropes back view, animated tying
Rose knot on 4 ropes
tying of Rose knot on 4 ropes
Pairs of monkey's fists formed as cufflinks in silk
a larger monkey's fist formed with a thicker rope
a heavy monkey's fist for throwing with an eye splice
