Sheet bend

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Sheet bend
Names	Sheet bend, Becket bend, Weaver's knot, Weaver's hitch
Typical use	Joining two ropes of different diameters.
Caveat
Releasing
Category	Bend knots
Group	Basic knots
Related	Bowline

The Sheet bend is much more secure than a Square knot.

“ [The Sheet bend] serves almost every purpose well, and unties readily without damaging the rope. ”

— The Ashley Book of Knots # 1431, p. 262

“ The Sheet Bend is recommended for joining two ropes of unequal size... It works equally well if the ropes are of the same size. ”

— Grog

Required for

• Bear # 22b, Second Class rank #2f, Sea Scout Apprentice #5.

Instructions

1. Make a loop in one end.
2. The rabbit goes out of the hole, around the tree and back under his path.

Lesson Videos

• Grog's Animated Knots: Sheet Bend
• Video: Sheet Bend
• Wonder How To Video: Sheet Bend Knot & Double Sheet Bend Knot

Notes

• The Sheet bend is one of the Forty Knots.

See also

Double Sheet Bend

Knots by Use
Basic knots	Overhand knot  •  Square knot  •  Granny knot  •  Two half-hitches  •  Taut-line hitch  •  Bowline  •  Sheet bend  •  Slip knot  •  Clove hitch  •  Timber hitch
Advanced knots	Constrictor knot  •  Monkey's fist  •  Ocean plait  •  Trucker's hitch  •  Turk's head
Special knots	Braiding  •  Carrick bend  •  Chain sinnet  •  Cow hitch  •  Double sheet bend  •  Sheep shank
Fishing knots	Arbor backing knot  •  Barrel knot  •  Blood knot  •  Blood loop  •  Clinch knot  •  Fisherman's knot  •  Improved clinch knot  •  Nail knot  •  Needle knot  •  Palomar knot  •  Surgeon's loop  •  Turle knot
Sailing knots	Bowline  •  Bowline on a bight  •  Cleat hitch  •  Double Bowline  •  Figure Eight  •  Marline hitch  •  Midshipman's hitch  •  Rolling hitch  •  Stevedore's knot
Climbing knots	Alpine Butterfly knot  •  Bowline  •  Double fisherman's knot (Grapevine)  •  Figure eight follow-through  •  Figure eight on a bight  •  Figure eight on bend  •  Figure eight knot  •  Prusik knot  •  Safety knot  •  water knot
Forty knots	Blackwall hitch  •  Bow knot  •  Bowline  •  Bowline on a bight  •  Cats Paw  •  Chain hitch (Marline hitch)  •  Clove hitch  •  Double Carrick bend (Carrick bend)  •  Double Figure Eight  •  Double Overhand  •  Double sheet bend  •  Figure Eight  •  Fisherman's Eye  •  Fisherman's Knot  •  Granny knot  •  Half hitch  •  Halyard bend  •  Hitching tie  •  Killick hitch  •  Lariat loop  •  Lark's head or (Cow hitch)  •  Marlinspike  •  Midshipman's hitch  •  Miller's knot  •  Overhand bow or (Water knot)  •  Overhand knot  •  Rolling hitch  •  Running knot (slip knot)  •  Sailor's knot  •  Sheep shank  •  Sheet bend  •  Slippery hitch  •  Square knot  •  Stevedore's knot  •  Surgeon's knot (surgeon's loop)  •  Taut-line hitch  •  Thief knot  •  Tiller's hitch  •  Timber hitch  •  Two half hitches