[Jewelry making - Article 00338] - Re: [Orchid] Making Hercules Knot

[Jerry in Kodiak]

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>        That looks like what I've always called a reef knot.

    You're correct, it is a reef or square knot. Different name, same
    knot. The reef knot  has been used from the early days of sailing
    vessels to the present to tie in the reef points in a sail. The knot
    is easily "upset"  so that when it comes time to "shake out" a reef 
    it can be done quickly and easily. If you pass one of the working
    ends back through the knot you have a "slipped " reef knot which
    makes it even quicker.  An earlier post mentioned the possibility
    that the Hercules knot was also called a "love knot" . They must
    have been referring to what is called in common usage the "true
    love" or "true lover's" knot. This is a knot used for many years as
    tokens of everlasting love between the sailor who spent much of his
    life at sea, and his wife or sweetheart who spent those long lonely
    days and nights (the sailor hoped) without him. The knot is two half
    hitches tied with their loops or bights intertwined and the standing
    parts joined to form two ring shanks. Thus, while the knots stay
    locked together (the couple), the shanks (the two individuals) are
    apart.. If you tie the two knots together properly and draw them
    taught they appear to become one. 

    Jerry in Kodiak  (a sailor who has "swallowed the anchor")

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