By Philippe Petit
After years of hands-on study, Philippe provides Why Knot?, a consultant to tying his crucial knots. Philippe's personal useful sketches illustrate unique tools and transparent, smart tying directions. photos within which specified knots have been used in the course of miraculous high-wire walks, quirky knot trivialities, own anecdotes, worthwhile suggestions, magic tips, and unique tying demanding situations make sure that, in case you are now not already nuts for knots, Petit will rework you right into a knot aficionado.
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"In studying Philippe's e-book we're cogently reminded that with out the power to safe a rope, or tether a goat, or make quick the sheets of a galley, a lot of the civilization that we take with no consideration could disappear as simply as a slipknot within the palms of a Vegas conjuror." -Sting
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"Philippe Petit is an artist of knots: We get taken and sprung loose whilst. this can be a dynamic booklet, eclectic, enjoyable, and useful. From Nabokov to the realm alternate middle to improvised handcuffs! Wonderful." -Colum McCann
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"Read this e-book and dad it on your pocket. . . . at some point it could actually shop your life!" -Melissa Leo
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"This isn't really your basic ebook for Boy Scouts. this can be for people with a feeling of poetry-the poetry and the secret of the Bowline within the Bight, the Highwayman's Hitch, and the Monkey's Fist-revealed to us through a guy whose existence depends upon ropes and knots." -Werner Herzog
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"Petit's certain and deeply insightful philosophy during the guise of mere knots eternally binds us to staggering new joys." -Elizabeth Streb
"The e-book describes, between different issues, the type of knots that held quickly whilst was once excessive up with out a net-the 'locked constrictor' he used on the exchange heart, the 'farmer's loop' he fixed to the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia in 1973, the 'jug sling' he forged sooner than he walked among Avery Fisher corridor and what was once then the recent York kingdom Theater in Lincoln middle in 1987." -The long island Times
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"Petit's illustrated consultant to a couple of his favorites, just like the slipped clove hitch he used to anchor the cord on which he walked throughout New York's Grand relevant Terminal.. [He] carried a size of rope in his pocket with the intention to practice methods at a moment's observe. The e-book comes built with a piece of twine so readers can do the same." -WIRED
"In explaining the aim and construction of knots, Mr. Petit earns excellent marks. because of these wonderful drawings, I relearned the bowline in list time." -Wall road magazine
"Petit, who is aware the best way to tie 2 hundred knots and has a knot library of 2 hundred volumes, is a poetic and passionate instructor." -Boston Globe
"His most up-to-date ebook celebrates the unsung heroes of his paintings: knots. This fantastically packaged hardcover comes entire with a convention rope coiled within the title's O." - psychological Floss
"Thank you for this highly intelligent publication, each person wishes one!" -Charlie Rose
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"Mr. Petit is the right instructor. His descriptions are transparent, he deploys humor usually and he makes his issues with anecdotes which are colourful and remarkable. Explaining the aim and production of knots and due to these faultless drawings Mr. Petit earns ideal marks." -Wall road Journal
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"For famed high-wire walker Philippe Petit, a well-tied knot is greater than a specific thing of beauty-it's a question of lifestyles and demise. The punning name of Philippe Petit's most up-to-date booklet may simply as simply be the maxim wherein he ha
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Example text
Can be found in many aspects of my life. When I open a how-to book for the first time, it is with the impatience of a student-craftsman eager to start creating something. Noisily, I flip past the front matter to reach where the action is (eventually I will go back to the first pages and profit from a preface, some information, a piece of advice). Thus, since this is my book, let’s start immediately: “Welcome to my personal world of knotting, where tying comes first! ” I was not asking. Also by Philippe Petit Trois Coups (Herscher, Paris 1983) On the High Wire (Random House, New York 1985) Funambule (Albin Michel, Paris 1991) Traité du Funambulisme (Actes Sud, Arles 1997) To Reach the Clouds (North Point Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York 2002) Currently translated into nine languages.
Strop: an endless loop (usually made with a Short Splice) used, for example, to hold a pulley block.
Then on April 17, Pawson (who would become a knot-book author in 1998) organized another meeting. Among the twenty-five people assembled were Dr. Edward Hunter and Geoffrey Budworth, and also Dr. Harry Asher (knot book author in 1986). More talk, more hope for the creation of a guild soon, and a good omen—the photographer who took the group’s picture was named Hitch! IGKT By May 15 of that same year, the International Guild of Knot Tyers was officially born. ) IGKT’s mission is to promote the art, craft, and science of knotting; to undertake research in all aspects of knotting; and to establish an authoritative body of consultative purposes.