This is knot what I had in mind...
Last night I was watching some exotic wood creations on YouTube that went into some specialized woodworking tools. This morning, YouTube served up some videos about knot tying.It must be a blue morning as I blogged about a blue dog sculpture and I'm associating the knots with my brother and my dad's old Bluejacket's Manual.
My dad was in the US Navy and came home with lots of cool things from his travels.
After moving to Miami, we opened his duffle bag to find some utensils for camping, hats, scarves and the manual. My brother was a fishing enthusiast and studied the chapter on knot making. It fascinated him. I really wasn't too interested, but learned to tie a few knots for fishing line and remember at a barbecue party tying some short ropes to make a longer one used for securing canvas as a windbreaker.
Let's not waste any time on the knots.
The Bluejacket's Manual
I don't recall what edition it was and it's probably 80 years ago. It wouldn't surprise me if my brother still has that old book!