Year: 1991 Language: English Author: Floris Hin Genre: Knots Publisher: Hearst Marine Books ISBN: 0-688-12329-5 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages + text layer Pages count: 168 Description: There have been many books showing knots and splices in all the world’s languages. There are huge comprehensive ones with every tangle and loop imaginable. There are slim volumes with essential hitches — even plastic cards showing the bare necessities for sailors, mountaineers, or sportsmen. Between these extremes, others jostle on the bookshelves. But none is in color. This Is Knotting and Splicing is unique, because the team which devised, wrote, and photographed it in Holland has unlaid ropes, colored each strand, and thus shown, where applicable, the relative complexities of knotting and splicing. Where different lines, but no strands, are involved, equal care has been taken to use or create cordage of different color. The book has been written by Floris Hin, with photography by Theo Kampa and Jaap Hille. The Dutch editor is Wim de Bruijn. Help in acquiring the many types of line was given by Peter Kiihne of Marlow Ropes and J. Wethman of Lankhorst. The book spans simple knots to time-consuming plaited work and looks at the traditional hitches as well as the latest invention in the world of knots — designed to counteract the slipperiness of some synthetics — the Hunter’s Bend. It is not often that knots make front-page news in national dailies, but this one did on its invention in 1978, in the London Times. The use of color to solve the age-old difficulty of explaining on paper the construction of knots, bends, hitches, whippings, and splices has been made possible because Hearst Marine Books has produced this book as one of its THIS IS series. A big printing in English, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish has been made, following existing all-color books on subjects such as racing, windsurfing, sailboat cruising, diving, rough-weather sailing, and photography afloat. Meanwhile, the first of the series, This Is Sailing, remains in print in twelve languages after thirteen years. Though rope materials change, most knots are likely to remain useful to successive generations. Hearst Marine Books is particularly pleased to have added this subject to its unique list.
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This is knotting and splicing
Language: English
Author: Floris Hin
Genre: Knots
Publisher: Hearst Marine Books
ISBN: 0-688-12329-5
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages + text layer
Pages count: 168
Description: There have been many books showing knots and splices in all the world’s languages. There are huge comprehensive ones with every tangle and loop imaginable. There are slim volumes with essential hitches — even plastic cards showing the bare necessities for sailors, mountaineers, or sportsmen. Between these extremes, others jostle on the bookshelves.
But none is in color. This Is Knotting and Splicing is unique, because the team which devised, wrote, and photographed it in Holland has unlaid ropes, colored each strand, and thus shown, where applicable, the relative complexities of knotting and splicing. Where different lines, but no strands, are involved, equal care has been taken to use or create cordage of different color.
The book has been written by Floris Hin, with photography by Theo Kampa and Jaap Hille. The Dutch editor is Wim de Bruijn. Help in acquiring the many types of line was given by Peter Kiihne of Marlow Ropes and J. Wethman of Lankhorst.
The book spans simple knots to time-consuming plaited work and looks at the traditional hitches as well as the latest invention in the world of knots — designed to counteract the slipperiness of some synthetics — the Hunter’s Bend. It is not often that knots make front-page news in national dailies, but this one did on its invention in 1978, in the London Times.
The use of color to solve the age-old difficulty of explaining on paper the construction of knots, bends, hitches, whippings, and splices has been made possible because Hearst Marine Books has produced this book as one of its THIS IS series. A big printing in English, Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, and Swedish has been made, following existing all-color books on subjects such as racing, windsurfing, sailboat cruising, diving, rough-weather sailing, and photography afloat. Meanwhile, the first of the series, This Is Sailing, remains in print in twelve languages after thirteen years.
Though rope materials change, most knots are likely to remain useful to successive generations. Hearst Marine Books is particularly pleased to have added this subject to its unique list.
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