Thank you, Dan_Lehman!
I'm sorry but I've not found the hilarious bowline...
Could you show it, please?
thanks.
Ciao,
s.
I will *tell it* (again), for now.
rope runs from right-to-left (SPart right, to-become-eye left),
making the nipping loop with a clockwise turn,
crossing point at bottom (6:00),
on-going eye leg crossing OVER SPart;
at suitable length for eye, make the U-turn ANTI-clockwise
so to bring returning eye-leg back below & beside on-going
one, and crossing back over SPart;
at which point, turn this working end clockwise down
under the SPart (and now, roughly, pointing down from 6:00).
HERE, there is a choice :: to make
hilarious bowlineor a similar one (described after...).
FOR
H.B., take the working end around (continue
clockwise) OVER the adjacent eye legs;
and now, form a bight and tuck this in through the nipping
loop,
from back to front (i.e., towards view) --so, crossing
9:00-ish side of loop UNDER and bring bight out from that.
The substance of the bight --the material bulk and resistance
to being bent/folded-- is what is hoped to keep the nipping
loop *loopish* and not opening (too much) into a helix.
So, dress & set the knot accordingly, working to minimze
the collaring of the eye legs, hauling on the bight end to
get this snugged, which will tend to rotate the nipping loop
opposite the direction it will want to move when loaded,
which is towards opening into a helix --a little of which might
be fine for the situation (YMMV).
.:. This is a knot that looks fine for putting in an eye w/o ends,
and maybe *instructive* about knot strength in having the
SPart in a curvature of diminishing radius (something that might
obtain more in some materials than others).
That other-like-knot choice would have one form a bight
at the decision point (working end at the 6:00 area after
turning around the SPart), and tucking out through the
loop immediately, front to back (away from view).
AND THEN, though, one must draw the eye through the
tucked bight and snug the latter around it, which will give
more sure resistance of the SPart opening into a helix,
though it can do so, depending on materials and so on.
In the
H.B., one might be able to untie it by simply pulling
on the tail and spilling the tucked bight --though it wasn't
the point of the tucking, which was need (TIB) and bulk.
Generalizing the tying *aspects*/techniques/... presented
above can lead to many more such eye knots, and some
look great (there might be elements of immodesty showing ...).
--dl*
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