Thousandbone

A thousandbone is a nautical knotwork .

Purpose and manufacture

On sailing ships , it is used to prevent sails from becoming ashamed of standing rigging . It is woven from unusable remnants of rope . Pieces about 20 cm long were torn into pieces of cable yarn and woven individually or in pairs between tensioned huesings ( yarns ) with an anchor stitch . The finished millipede is wrapped around the ropes or steel cables at the endangered (chafing) point and fixed.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cable yarn

Web links

• Sailor's Knot (Jack Tar)

• Thousand legs

• Manufacture of centipedes (millipedes, millipedes)

Images of thousand legs on windjammers

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  Position and dimension of the thousand legs
  (Gorch Fock)

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  Thousand Legs and Sailor's Chair
  (Gorch Fock)

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  Roald Amundsen (ship)