Platting
Platting or fancywork means "loving handwork with ropes and knots". Especially during the great sailing ships had the sailors during lulls (wind) much time and leisure, to engage in trade. Ropes, ropes, ropes and lines offered opportunities to create artistic decorations. In addition to ornate knots ( decorative knots ) as decoration for pipe strings , knives and marlin spikes (splicing nails) or splicing as a termination of ropes, especially linen was braided (plating).
Round-symmetrical flat plating
Round-symmetrical flat plating is used as a trivet, table mat or carpet. Oval and almost rectangular shapes are also common as shoe scrapers. Once the basic pattern has been laid with a line, it is easy to widen it with several layers.
The oval plating measures 35 × 21 cm and is made of 7 m rope with a 10 mm diameter. The doormat measures 35 × 30 cm and is made of 10 m rope with a 10 mm diameter. The same pattern is also used for the “Celtic Cross”.
Round plating
Round plating or square plating, for example, was used as an artistic handle for the clapper of the ship's bell . Today it is often seen as a key fob . Further forms are chain plating, screw plating (also crown plating). The basic elements are the cockpit , the square knot and the old woman's knot .
Plattings created with Scoubidou as key rings
Flat plating
- Ribbons and belts are created by flat plating.
- Braided leather belts are also made in flat plating.
- In the bakery or kitchen, dough is made into flat platings in the form of plaited butter and plaited yeast .
- In hairstyles , the pigtail is usually a "three-strand flat plate".
- In the military, plattings (e.g. rifle cords ) are used as decorations and decorations in military parades .
Kettenstek pattern
Ring plating
A basic form is the Turk's Union , which is often used to mark the center position on the steering wheel, but also as a bracelet or in the form of a Gilwell knot as a scarf knot (mostly in leather).
See also
- weave
- Macramé - a knotting technique from the Orient for the production of ornaments
- Knot science
- List of nodes
- Scoubidou - a trend in tying knots among young people.
literature
- Clifford W. Ashley : The Ashley Book of Knots . Over 3800 knots. How they look like. What they are used for. How they are made. Special edition. Hamburg: Edition Maritim, 2005, ISBN 3-89225-527-X