Constrictor knot tutorial9/3/2023 ![]() The Constrictor knot was described but not pictured as the "timmerknut" ("timber knot") in the 1916 Swedish book Om Knutar ("On Knots") by Hjalmar Öhrvall. Hyatt Verrill illustrated Burgess' Clove hitch variation in Knots, Splices and Rope Work. Burgess copied from Bowling, he changed this text to merely state "when the ends are knotted, the builder's knot becomes the Gunner's Knot." Although this Clove hitch with knotted ends is a workable binding knot, Burgess was not actually describing the Constrictor knot. He wrote, "The Gunner's knot (of which we do not give a diagram) only differs from the builder's knot, by the ends of the cords being simply knotted before being brought from under the loop which crosses them." Oddly, when J. ![]() Bowling described it in relation to the Clove hitch, which he illlustrated and called the "Builder's knot". The first known description of the Constrictor knot occurs in Tom Bowling's 1866 work, The Book of Knots where it was called the "Gunner's knot". Regardless of its exact origin, there is little doubt that Ashley popularized the Constrictor knot and led to it being much more well known today than in the past. Although Ashley apparently believed he had invented this knot more than 25 years earlier, research suggests that he was not the originator. ![]() ![]() First called "Constrictor knot" in Clifford Ashley's 1944 work The Ashley Book of Knots, this knot likely dates back much further. ![]()
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