Sore arms...
Jun. 27th, 2011 02:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
carlfoxmartenOne of my graduation gifts was a copy of The Ashley Book of Knots, the official guide to knots and knot-tying since its first publishing in 1944.
It contains over three thousand knots depicted in over seven thousand drawings, and they're all practical in some way or another.
I'd discovered the section on "Chain Sinnet", which basically amounts to weaving or braiding ropes, and is very similar to something called "Boondoggle" (at least, it's called that in North America, in other countries it's called "Scoubidou").
I've been experimenting with variations on a square knotted variety over the past couple of days, but discovered my right forearm started to hurt.
Turns out, it was too much too soon, and the muscles that controlled my fingers' dexterity weren't used to that much movement that quickly.
I'm going to take the next couple of days off, and then resume my experiments, but much more slowly so as not to hurt myself again.
This book covers so much material, it's going to be very difficult to do any sort of thorough reading, though I'm going to be spending much of my time in the sections on sinnet, as they're quite the interesting variety of knots.
It contains over three thousand knots depicted in over seven thousand drawings, and they're all practical in some way or another.
I'd discovered the section on "Chain Sinnet", which basically amounts to weaving or braiding ropes, and is very similar to something called "Boondoggle" (at least, it's called that in North America, in other countries it's called "Scoubidou").
I've been experimenting with variations on a square knotted variety over the past couple of days, but discovered my right forearm started to hurt.
Turns out, it was too much too soon, and the muscles that controlled my fingers' dexterity weren't used to that much movement that quickly.
I'm going to take the next couple of days off, and then resume my experiments, but much more slowly so as not to hurt myself again.
This book covers so much material, it's going to be very difficult to do any sort of thorough reading, though I'm going to be spending much of my time in the sections on sinnet, as they're quite the interesting variety of knots.
