I’ve tried to get a picture of it, but it doesn’t come out clearly enough to do any good I think. But when Cobb is tying a rope to the chair he has Mal sit in, during the dream where they’re trying to steal Saito’s expansion plans, so he can repel down the building, does anyone know what knot he uses? Or if not specifically, what some candidate knots might be?

I’m not sure if this is the right place for this type of post, but I just got a costume with a cape. The cape has a really long rope in a continuous loop. I don’t know the fist thing about knots besides your standard knot to tie your shoes.

Is anyone able to help me identify what type of knot I need to look up to learn for this?! The costume did not come with instructions.

I’ve attached two photos: one is the cape I physically have, and the other is the product image showing the knot used.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated! 🙏

Does anyone know if this knot has a name? It seems like a bowline variation with an extra hitch in the middle.

Please help me retie this knot.

I have a 50 foot check cord that I use to let my dog run (we don't have a fence). I would like to tie it to a very stable/heavy table leg so that about 15 ft is at one end and the remaining 35 ft are anchored to the table leg. What's the best knot to use? Thanks much!

The Bosun Lanyard knot, Knife Lanyard Knot, Diamond Knot, What Knot... whatever you call it the ferrets try out their most complicated knot so far.

Thanks u/Wolfingwolfing for the suggestion. There is just barely enough tube for this one.

I've been looking into getting a folding knife for rope work on the go and the Myerchin ones keep popping up. There are tons of mixed reviews about them, so I'm a bit confused. The main things I'm worried about are the build quality, edge retention and the quality of the spike. I've heard that the lanyard ring, in the more recent ones, is pretty flimsy, could someone give their thoughts on it?

Thanks in advance!

Given a closed loop of rope, is there any knot that will let you tie the loop to a pole (no access to the pole ends) in a way that lets you adjust the length from the knot to the other end? Something like a cow hitch, but the cow hitch doesn't let you adjust the length.

This is basically the set up I'm trying to describe

And I want to be able to adjust the length of the blue rope relatively easily.

Make a Marlinspike Hitch and pass a rope end through the space normally occupied by the spike. Then pull the indicated strands to capsize the arrangement into the finished knot.

You may recognize this as the Snap Bowline method (ABoK #1788). Ashley also describes it for the Sheet Bend (#1473, #1990 and #2005), including under the name Short End Bend. The Crabber’s Eye Knot (#1987) has a similar sliding-to-locked transformation.

The same idea works for all the family members shown. Changing which strands you pull—and which way you pass the end through the hitch—determines the result. For example, reversing the insertion direction in the bowline setup switches between a normal and a cowboy bowline.

I'm confused because these two videos both show a perfection loop but the initial setup is different.

I can do a perfection loop by looking at a single image of how to tie it.

This video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uhx-oKt7M3M

has the initial step as a loop, crossed behind.

This video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vaawA6fpoXY&t=7s&pp=2AEHkAIB

Has the initial step as just pinching the rope.

But then the rest is identical. And they both make the perfection loop.

How is this possible?

Ps. I find the manual way of tying it (make an overhand knot then wrap the working end back through around etc) actually easier and you can get the length of the loop very exact.

I know only one knot, the one I use to tie my shoes and it doesn't work for this application 😄

the end of the lash and of the shorter string have eyes and I'd think they could be used to good effect. the short loop would go through a hole in the toy. The knot is semipermanent, but it would be cool if it could be undone reasonably easily.

Any suggestion of a knot I can then lookup somewhere?

Thanks!

the pulling forces would effectively become cuts if so. curious as to what thoughts you all may have.

Some mats of different shapes and sizes

The title was supposed to say "Mats" Don't know what went wrong Edit: someone sent a PM asking about the rug under the mats. It's a jute rug made with a crochet needle for me by my girlfriend

I was noodling around with some paracord and ending up making an adjustable loop that seems useful. I'm sure I'm not the first to tie it, but it would be interesting to know what it is.

1. Take a line and form an assymetric bight (ie with one side much longer than the other).
2. Come up through the bight with your thumb and index finger and fold to form the 'bunny ears' of a lark's head.
3. Pass the bottom ear behind the top ear and up through it.
4. Wrap the bottom ear away from you around the top part of the top ear, and back up through the top ear again.
5. Pull it all tight.

EDIT: Finished knot:

How can I tie this? Presumably the wrap around the staff is a Prusik.

One of my stick handles

Sticks were a bit of an obsession of mine for a while

1 example of my work 😁

Fanart of kkayu the crow by doming

I was doing some searching on this subreddit and other related subreddits, but nothing relevant came up regarding what I'm trying to do. There's a satellite dish I'm hoping to lower from a flat roof that is about ~9-10 ft off the ground, and I was trying to see what is the best way to go about this using knots / DIY methods, if possible. Otherwise I'm also open to any other ideas or thoughts people have. For context I am a broke college student so please keep that in mind 😅

Additional context: I need a satellite dish for a school project (parabolic solar concentrator, for those curious); a local business owner contacted me and said he has one on his roof he could give me for free.

Update: the business owner said he has a ladder but I imagine it may still be somewhat of a challenge to get it down. I'm curious to hear others' thoughts on how they would lower this thing to the ground; the best idea I had was to use a double half hitch + tautline hitch between an anchor point on the roof and the dish, and then just slowly move along the working end of the tautline hitch until the dish is all the way down.

I'd like to do it with a noose-like knot, something decorative but secure. Suggestions?