Sheet bend

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Animated Knots show you how to tie Basic Knots, Fishing Knots, Sailing Knots, Climbing Knots, Forty Knots,
Special Knots, and Advanced Knots, for Wolf, Bear, Webelos, Tenderfoot, Second Class, and First Class.


Sheet bend
Image:Sheet_bend.gif
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
Animation of tying a Sheet bend
Animation of tying a Sheet bend

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. ”
— See 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


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


Notes


See also
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 on a Bight · Cleat Hitch · Double Bowline · Figure Eight · Marline Hitch · Midshipman's Hitch · Rolling Hitch · Stevedores Knot
Climbing knots Alpine Butterfly knot · 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


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