upon zoomed inspection, to have been tied by opening up the lay of the twisted strands
Well, I doubt that, but indeed the vertical parts/strands
don't really allow sufficient *room* for them to be much
at all involved in actual (vs. artist's rendering) knotting!
Note the similarity (re mirror'd on vert. axis) of the small
low center loop from left to right, but not quite exact vis-a-via
over/under crossings of other strands!?
(And IIRC, there isn't presentation of through-strands
whole-part *splicing* in any old literature? Hensel & Gretel
have that weird construct where strands are twisted into
a first-stage kink and then a whole-rope reeved through
those strand-eyes, but otherwise, I don't think I've seen
indication of what I
do see in commercial-fishing constructs.
)
. . . mystery to be continued . . .