The Ashley Book of Knots

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Small tear to bottom right-hand corner of front dustjacket, otherwise minor shelfwear to dustjacket and its extremities, slight shelfwear to extremities of bookcovers, otherwise fine. Knot tying is probably in no danger of disappearing, but certainly fewer people are learning to tie them.

Home to William Golding, Sylvia Plath, Kazuo Ishiguro, Sally Rooney, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Max Porter, Ingrid Persaud, Anna Burns and Rachel Cusk, among many others, Faber is proud to publish some of the greatest novelists from the early twentieth century to today. His ruling passions were marine painting and knot-tying, on which he was one of the world's leading authorities. x 9" The Ashley Book of Knots is an encyclopedia of knots written and illustrated by the American sailor and artist Clifford W. Faber Members get access to live and online author events and receive regular e-newsletters with book previews, promotional offers, articles and quizzes. This is probably the most important book on the subject, and has more knots listed than any other book.First published in 1944, and reprinted many times since then, the latest reissue of this magnificent book contains, for the first time, fully illustrated details of all minor amendments and corrections that have come to light over the years. From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer. The original list of revisions submitted to the publisher is believed to have been lost, but many had been collected from a series of articles in Knotting Matters, the Guild's quarterly publication. But it's so much more than just an enyclopedia of knots; it's also a glimpse into the history of their use and utility.

As this book was first published in 1944, there are some more recently discovered knots missing from this huge volume, such as the Versatackle knot and the Zeppelin bend. I've referred to this beautifully illustrated book many times when looking for just theright way to rig something up in the yard, fastening cargo to the roof of the car, tying my kids to the flagpole. The Knotting Matters issues cited in the above Knot News article are: KM1, KM28, KM31, KM32, and KM33.If you are really into knots like I am and want to view one of the best source books on knots then I highly recommend this book.

He was an author and painter of consummate skill, well regarded for his paintings of ships and the sea and for his illustrations. Those skills are at the fore in this work, his illustrations of knots being among the clearest and most understandable in any work of the kind. What it does not have is information about modern synthetic ropes and specialized knots that have been developed for them. Some of the illustrations are a bit hard to follow; updated diagrams would make this book the essential reference it deserves to be.If you appreciate resourcefulness, art, sailing, camping, flying, needlecraft, knitting, crochet, history, physics, tenacity, dedication, collecting, music, carpentry, or anything really. On a gray day when I'm in no mood for much I can open ABoK to an arbitrary page and feel myself decompress as I browse. These have been collected and collated by Geoffrey Budworth with the help of other members of the International Guild of Knot Tyers. There is obviously nothing in the book about the synthetic ropes that have come out since it was written, or the knots that were developed to deal with the slipperiness of those ropes.