Best reference books for knot tying and rope work?

[Dan_Lehman]

@mcjtom post:17

I have an interesting find: the Russian equivalent? (maybe not) to the ABoK by
Lev Skryagin - Nautical Knots.
I don’t read Russian but there are illustrations and the text could be auto-translated to get the jest of it.

I can’t be sure, but I don’t think the book was ever translated into English or has been well known (has it?),
which may be interesting as there may be some constructs there that are either unique or at least obscure
to the English-speaking audience, but since the author has been surely familiar with ABoK,
maybe that’s not the case.

Somebody more familiar with knotting than I am would have to make a judgment on it…

Thanks for remarking; I just had a long browse, selectively
dropping texts into a translator (with some of the 2 B expected
comical translations).

1. I’m puzzled that it cites Ashley’s #1452 as having long been
   known to “furriers”!? And, as indeed the author IS aware of
   ABoK (though yet not awarEnuff to not parrot the nonsense
   count of “3900 knots”), he gives no hint of this knot being
   among those it presents, apparently as a then new discovery!?

2. Hunter’s bend is directed by synonymy to the realm of hunters,
   and he alleges that Edward got a British patent for it!? Huh, I’m
   pretty sure that the knot was relatively quickly enough found to
   have been presented by Phil Smith some decade plus prior to
   Hunter’s even discovering it that such a patent wouldn’t occur.

A lot of the illustrations appear to have been copied, though
not all --or not by sources I’m familiar with.

–dl*