hitches 🍵 tea and tag

[alana]

to my detriment, i don’t know my hitches!

so if anyone knows these knots, let us know!
i won’t even take a guess. some of it’s because i hit my head pretty bad a week ago and still prone to glitchy cognition

i’m also interested in the machine that does this!

a different knot at each end with some strong thread connecting tag with tea.
the tag knot and the filter bag knot

so there’s no staple or glue,
tiny tiny knots

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[alana]

i might’ve got the ends mixed up, oops

tea drinking tip -
the filter bags filter some of the the taste,
so i tear small nicks in the paper where it’s folded.

leaf tea is better but sometimes there’s a need for filter bags,
so, i’m not a complete tea snob,
just make the nicks in the bag

[Dan_Lehman]

I’m abashed to admit that I never read this post,
and here I am thinking that I might be the lone
knotter paying attention to such in-our-midst knottings!

Examining tea-bag knots takes some care, prying
open w/Xacto knife point, looking w/magnifier, sometimes.

I’ve seen some variety, and am pretty sure that in some
cases there is the same Tangle at bag as at tag, BUT the
loading --so, the Knots-- differs :: a timber hitch structure
–maybe a Fig.8 so disposed (for which ABoK has its own #)–
is loaded per normal at one point, like you show for the bag
above; but then at the tag, the S.Part leads into the twisted
part, reverse loading!

Cheers,
–dl*