Hi All, I found a Bowline transformation video done by a Russian knot Tyer Vasiliy Smirnov, I show him I have done the same thing before, and he exchanges his knots site.
Me too, and note that with the "tail-inside",
common
bowline, it matters on which side
of the eye one brings the tail out to (in a continuous
set of transformations in the bight)! It's possible
to take a facing-upwards knot to facing opposite
--which would be a neat trick to play on someone
with an ends-anchored line containing such a knot.
(Doing such topological transformations can be extremely
frustrating if one doesn't keep good account of one's moves:
you come up with form-B from form-A and ... , but struggle
to repeat the action, not knowing which moves you'd made!
I had trouble even with the relatively simple changes to
a
"figure 9" knot into two symmetric orientations.
)
Vasiliy Smirnov claim that the Eskimo bowline in my videos should call "Cossack" under Russia name. If it is true that Russian have discovered this knot, I think we should give them the credit, and have the name "Cossack" instead of Eskimo bowline.
That they might have discovered the knot (for themselves)
doesn't preclude Eskimos from having done the same;
as to who did so first, that evidence might be frozen
out of reach --or might predate any notion of states.
--dl*
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