List of bend knots

This is a list of types of bend knots. A bend knot is a knot used to join two lengths of rope. Although the reef knot can be used in this way, it is insecure when used as a bend and so is not classed as one.

The sheet bend is the classic bend knot. A study of 8 different bends using climbing rope found that the Butterfly bend was strongest, but recommended the double fisherman's knot for being easier to untie."^[1]

Types of bend knots

Knot	Description	Image
Adjustable bend	A bend knot that can be easily lengthened or shortened.
Albright special	A knot (properly, a bend) used in angling.
Ashley's bend	A knot used to securely join the ends of two ropes together.
Beer knot	A bend that can only be used in tubular webbing. Its most common application is in slings used in rock climbing.
Blood knot	A knot most usefully employed for joining sections of monofilament nylon line while maintaining a high portion of the line's inherent strength.
Butterfly bend	A type of knot used to join the ends of two ropes together.
Carrick bend	A knot used for joining two lines. It is particularly appropriate for very heavy rope or cable that is too large and stiff to easily be formed into other common bends.
Double fisherman's knot	A bend, or a knot used to join two lengths of rope.
Fisherman's knot	A bend (a knot for joining two lines) with a symmetrical structure consisting of two overhand knots, each tied around the standing part of the other.
Flemish bend	A knot for joining two ropes of roughly similar size.
Harness bend	A general-purpose bend knot used to join two ropes together.
Heaving line bend	A quick and simple knot that is used to attach playing strings to the thick silk eyes of the anchorage knot.
Hunter's bend	A knot used to join two lines.
Nail knot	A knot used in fly fishing, which can be tied in multiple ways.
One-sided overhand bend
Racking bend
Sheet bend
Shroud knot	A multi-strand bend knot used to join two ends of laid (or twisted) rope together.
Simple Simon under
Single carrick bend
Surgeon's knot
Triple fisherman's knot
True lover's knot
Water knot
Zeppelin bend

References

↑ Knot Break Strength vs Rope Break Strength

Knots

By type

Bends	Adjustable Albright special Ashley's Alpine butterfly Basket weave Beer Blood Carrick Double fisherman's Fisherman's Flemish Grief Halyard Harness Heaving line Hunter's Nail One-sided overhand Racking Sheet Shoelace Shroud Simple Simon under Single carrick Surgeon's Surgeon's loop Triple fisherman's True lover's Water Zeppelin

Binding	Boa Bottle sling Constrictor Corned beef Granny Ground-line hitch Jamming Miller's Packer's Reef Strangle Thief Transom

Climbing	Autoblock Bachmann Beer Bowline on a bight Alpine butterfly Directional figure eight Double bowline Farmer's loop Figure-eight Figure-eight loop Figure-of-nine loop Friction hitch Klemheist Munter hitch Overhand loop Prusik Trident loop Yosemite bowline

Coils & Shanks	Alpine coil Butterfly coil Over/under cable coiling Chain sinnet Sheepshank

Decorative	Carrick mat Chinese button Celtic button Diamond Fiador Friendship Ghiordes & Senneh Matthew Walker Turk's head Wall and crown

Fishing (angling)	Angler's loop Arbor Bimini twist Blood Fisherman's Half blood Improved clinch Knotless Nail Palomar Snell Trilene Triple fisherman's Turle Uni

Hitches	Adjustable grip Anchor bend Axle Bachmann Bale sling Barrel Becket Blackwall Blake's Boom Buntline Cat's paw Clove Cow Distel Double overhand noose Falconer's Farrimond friction Friction hitch Garda Ground-line Half Halter Highpoint Highwayman's Hitching tie Icicle Improved clinch knot Killick Knute Lobster buoy Marlinespike Munter Ossel Pile Pipe Sailor's Snuggle Swing Taut-line Timber

Loop	Angler's Artillery loop Bale sling hitch Bowline Bumper Carrick bend loop Cossack Cowboy bowline Diamond Double bowline Dropper loop Eskimo bowline Fiador Fireman's chair Friendship knot Halter hitch Handcuff Honda Jury mast Overhand Portuguese bowline Rigid double splayed loop in the bight Slippery eight Span Spanish bowline Tom fool's Trident Triple bowline Triple crown Water bowline Yosemite bowline Zeppelin

Running (slip)	Hangman's Running bowline Running highwayman's hitch Tarbuck

Splices & splicing	Eye Fid Marlinspike Rat-tail T Western Union

Stopper	Ashley's stopper Button Double overhand Monkey's fist Overhand Stevedore

Whipping	Common Overhand knot with draw-loop Portuguese Sailmaker's West Country

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