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VII Arcano

Rope work, explained and compared

Bindings & whipping

A binding knot cinches tight around an object rather than joining two ropes or attaching a rope to something it will later be released from. Some bindings are meant to come off again without much fuss; others are tied to stay, and are usually cut off rather than untied once their job is done. The entry below sits firmly in the second group.

The 1 entry in this category

  1. BD-03

    Constrictor Knot

    Locks tight around a bundle or a rope end. Highly effective, and correspondingly hard to remove once it has taken a load.

    Difficulty
    Black
    Best for
    A near permanent binding
A bundle of loose rope ends bound tightly with cord
A good binding knot resists slipping in either direction once it is drawn up, which is also why the tightest ones are hard to remove.

What belongs in this category

An entry is filed under Bindings when its job is to compress or cinch material together, whether that is a coil of loose rope, a bundle of firewood, or the raw cut end of a line waiting for proper whipping twine. Anything that is meant to be released quickly under load, such as a clove hitch used as a temporary tie-off, is filed under Hitches instead.