Hi All
Why dandelion : they put their light floating seeds in the care of the wind.
That is what I do here.
As one of my professeur of litterature said of me " Charles you are like the road post : always showing the way but never following it"…
Still playing with the brainstrom rules : no internal censorship, sky is the limit.
Unintended polling vote on the topic ?
That was not the intent but I think that we will have a sort of "wild polling about the interest of “naming the knots and sorting them out”.
Data mining
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number ofviews : should have way to evaluate what in French is dubbed “coefficient de revoyure” : total number of views / total number of different pseudo.
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absolute number of post in reply
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ratio of number of different pseudo/number of answers
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ratio : "number of views/number of post in answer.
The absolute number of different pseudo answering posts would be of great interest.
If there are too few viewings and most important too few interaction(replies) then, whatever the standing participants it will show that this issue is to be forsaken for quite a long time.
Only the first 2 of my posts should taken of account for my pseudo, my answering posts should be susbstracted or the bias would be too great.
Yes I know I am just as a 3 years old toddler with my “why”.
Database to be used in the first step of this trekking = ABOK
A database is useful is verified and cleaned
- no doubles
- no “not in the subject”
- no missing
- no “what am I forgetting that you can think of?”
Why IGKT would not send an e-mail to all members ( is that possible? don’t know) asking them to send back
- For each non-uniquely mentionned knot in ABOK ( NOTE :here naming does not apply, only structure of knot) send ALL the numbers pertaining to it. IGKT ad hoc commission will work on material.
Yes: The buck stop at IGKT board desk! - Each member who know a “missing” knot send carefully verified drawings ( or photo) of said knot, all the names known by sender, its usage…
After all : say 1000 members and 4000 knots that is only 4 knots for each member.
Yes I know this silly arithmetic ( exact though, mind you!) does not apply/ mean anything in treal life problem. But (badly done) “statistics” are the modern manipulation tool.
Why IGKT would not publish an e-book with the above end result( always provisionnal revisabled “end” result) of the above working.
There are quite a few members who have web sites quite usefully illustrated : they could give a hand.
E-Book first edition would be just ABOK cleaned of of all double.
Drawings or pictures would be "new original "ones to avoid copyright trouble.
( original ABOK number will always be retained / later an index number would be add)
E-publication = easy revision of “errors”
Could be a sort of Wikipedia or “project Gutenberg” thing.
Why would not it be possible to use the mathematical knots classification/coding in
see those sites 
no need to be a mathematician to enjoy the pics. And I am sure someone like “Grog” (Alan Grogono)could lend a hand and surely there are other math-head at large in IGKT that could help.
See the Rolfsen Knot Table at Dror Bar-Natan: The Knot Atlas: Moved
Why would not IGKT ( per statute) would not contact:
ALL (Naval, maritime, fisheries) museums, or whatever dealing with knots, and ask them for documentation.
Could even try Universities with Professor of Ethnology.
That is certainly NOT a limited proposition…
Why IGKT would not contact each of its branches ( either members directly or via the local President) to try and enlist aid on the matter?
Graal, Troy, Nessie, Yeti, Little Green “men”
Is that what you think about the IGKT dictionnry of Knots ?
Well, when I am very long dead ( and I am told it is for quite a long time) and THE dictionary is published : Put in in a GREEN cover with a “very queer” knot looking like a creature from outer space!
Last one for the road : STARK RAVING MAD this one ( very much more than the others)
Why would not IGKT appply to UNESCO for a grant " sauvegarde d’un patrimoine de l’Humanité"
for safeguarding a Humanity patrimony?
Mad but not senseless :
Is not knot-lore precious knowledge( hand craftma included, (women, girls included in the craft…sorry Ladies and Mes Demoiselles))
There were not always sophisticated high-tech glues/tapes and from the first prehistoric hunter using pine resine and vines “ropes” to fix his knapped flint on a wooden shaft.
Stark raving mad I said! Understatement surely?
EMERGENCY BRAKE ( no fine if used abusively)
ANYBODY want me to shup ut on the topic : send a post headed “shut up” and I promised that at the second one, I will not post anymore without another post asking " open it again!", even without please!
Kind regards to all
PS Sobering phony statistics ?
Suppose there are 4000 knots. one knot per month ( reasonable speed dont you think?) is “finished”.
In LESS THAN 334 years “we” are done! ( the " " for we are sekf-evident, ar they not?)
Wanted to speed it up 4 knots a month : less than 83 years
40 knots a month : less than 9 years!
French “Academie Française” is “reviewing” our Dictionnnaire to accept words.
Now letter F “done”.12 memberscommission one meeting a week.
In 1935 there were 35 000 words, in the last 9th edition there are 50000 words. ( some “added”, some “retired”".
First tome (A to Enzyme) of 9th edition was published in 1992.
See the e-version of this Dictionnary at Redirection vers le nouveau site du Dictionnaire
If they did it why not an IGKT-DK
Don’t know what it is that IGKT-DK thing? barbarian!
International Guild of Knot Tyers Dictionnary of Knots
easy and short!