File:Ashleys Stopper.gif

From Knot Atlas
Jump to navigationJump to search

Ashleys_Stopper.gif(180 × 180 pixels, file size: 23 KB, MIME type: image/gif)

This knot is known as the oysterman's stopper or the Ashley's stopper knot.

When we tie the ends together this gives the 8_20 knot on the Rolfsen knot table.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current17:15, 10 March 2016Thumbnail for version as of 17:15, 10 March 2016180 × 180 (23 KB)Jones (talk | contribs)Ashley's stopper knot, also known as the oysterman's stopper, is a knot developed by Clifford W. Ashley around 1910. It makes a well-balanced trefoil-faced stopper at the end of the rope, giving greater resistance to pulling through an opening than oth...

There are no pages that use this file.