![]() Contrast this with his description for knot #1452, which he left unnamed but which is now universally referred to as the Ashley bend which starts out: " 1452. Given the Constrictor's similarity in form and method to a number of similar binding knots, particularly the Strangle knot (#1239) and Miller's Knot(1) (#1241), it is reasonably clear why he used the word "evolved". Then the knot shown here was evolved, which proved in every way adequate. For a while seizings were employed, which served the purpose well but took too much time to tie. At the time when the sinnets of Chapter 39 were being made there was no knot that would hold secure the large number of strands that were required for some of them. And so, regarding the specifics of this case, here's what Ashley has to say about the constrictor knot at its main entry, #1249 (caps original):ฤก249. Since only a very small proportion of the world's knotting activities over the millennia has ever been written down, no other claim to 'originality' is likely to be valid. ![]() Just about all that anyone can hope to claim is that the knot has not been published in any common knotting publication. There is nothing new under the sun! Modern claims to have been the first to have invented a simple knot are difficult to sustain. My guess would be that every simple knot possible has already been tied somewhere, by someone, at some time, very likely many times. ISBN 981-02-2469-9, chapter two "Why Knot? Some Speculations on the Earliest Knots", page 28, Charles Warner writes: ![]() Too Old 18:19, 13 March 2006 (UTC) Reply While I don't entirely resist giving Clifford Ashley some credit, I think for such a simple knot the issue of origin is more nuanced than one purely of first published reference. Unless, of course, someone can give a reference predating Ashley. In view of the meticulousness of Ashley in researching and giving credit, I think he must be given the benefit of the doubt.
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