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How to Tie a Slip Knot
Knot Tying Instructions
Step 1 - Hold a length of rope out in front of you and twist to form a loop

Step 2 - Reach through the loop, grasp the dangling right end by the middle, and pull it through the loop, being careful not to let the end come through. Keep your left hand steady, and a knot will tight arond the part you are pulling throug

Step 3 - You can now hook the new loop around things (including useful things like your thumb!), and pull the main length of the rope to tighten around them



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The Taut Line

A taut line, is used to tighten a line, and is ideal for clothes tents and the like. This would have to rank up there as one of the most useful knots to learn!<taut line knot image>

How to Tie the Taut Line Knot

Step 1 - Wrap your rope around a pole (branch, tree trunk, fence post...), cross the shorter end underneath the long running length of the rope, and drop it down through the hole between where the rope crosses and the pole

Step 2 - Bring the rope around and drop it through again this is the "extra turn"

Step 3 - Bring the end of the rope to the front of the two loops you just made, and tie another half-hitch (just like the first one in step one). Pull to tighten

Step 4 - You can now slide the knot along the main length of rope to tighten the line, as needed


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It will not slip, and can be reliably lassoed or tied around object