{"id":1873,"date":"2015-12-11T09:04:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T09:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guelphoutdoorschool.wordpress.com\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2015-12-11T09:04:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T09:04:14","slug":"knot-tying-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/2015\/12\/11\/knot-tying-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Knot Tying Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday November 16th, 2015, I led a workshop for Outdoor School on knot tying. In preparation I had learned countless knots, chosen the ones I thought would be most accessible to the group, cut 7&#8242; foot lengths for each participant and burned the frayed edges with a lighter.<\/p>\n<p>It was important to me that every single person got to partake in the workshop with both hands, which meant I chose not to have anyone document it via cell phones or cameras. Instead, I have made the following video, both for those who may have forgotten the three knots, or those who missed the workshop.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/148594143\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>For those interested, the &#8216;Bible&#8217; of knots was written and illustrated by an artist, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clifford_Warren_Ashley\" target=\"_blank\">Clifford W. Ashley<\/a>, and though published back in 1944, is still one of the most important knot tying reference books today. Luckily for anybody interested in knots, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igktnab.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">sole North American branch of the International Guild of Knot Tyers<\/a>, is located in our backyard, just an hour away in Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>An excellent online learning tool is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animatedknots.com\/indexbasics.php?LogoImage=LogoGrog.jpg&amp;Website=www.animatedknots.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.animatedknots.com\/<\/a> It&#8217;s step by step images have a mirror option (for lefties), and was how I learned the Alpine Butterfly.<\/p>\n<p>Knots can provide both utility and fun, and the knots I have learned have given me confidence. Before preparing for this workshop I had no knowledge of knots what so ever, but after hundreds of repetitions, it is now like riding a bike. Thank you to everyone who attended the workshop, and I hope you take at least one of these knots with you through life.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Theo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday November 16th, 2015, I led a workshop for Outdoor School on knot tying. In preparation I had learned countless knots, chosen the ones I thought would be most accessible to the group, cut 7&#8242; foot lengths for each participant and burned the frayed edges with a lighter. It was important to me that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[17,24,38,58],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-tips","category-uncategorized","tag-ashley","tag-clifford","tag-knots","tag-survival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7CROG-ud","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/experimentalstudio.ca\/outdoorschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}