A Simple Locked Bowline

[mobius]

@xarax post:2

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P.S. 2014-6-09 : There is another slightly different variation of the 1 loop, where the second leg of the collar passes from the other side of the returning eye leg - and which is also TIB. The corresponding PET TIB loop is also slightly different, but it is not as interesting as the best of the family, the “pet loop” (A).

This is Xarax’s previous input into the bowline I am promoting, along with an image titled “2a.JPG”. The link was provided above. A very limited contribution has now been acknowledged. Thank you, Xarax.

I have been chastised (in another thread) for daring to give a decent name to a knot that I found on my own and I alone am promoting. When someone points me to a published description/discussion where someone did not refer to the Mobius Bowline as lacking interest and called it’s image “2a” and made more than a spurious passing comment like “variation of the 1 loop”, I will stand corrected. There is way too much intellectual snobbery exercised by the old guard on this site sometimes.

As I am probably the only one who will ever use the Mobius Bowline regularly, I will call it what I like. Why should anyone really care what I choose to call a knot I alone use?