Knots on the Net
I wanted to do a site on knots, but since I can't draw a decent stick figure and there were already so many great knot sites I figured I would just tell you about some of them.
Instructional
Non-Instructional
Organizations
Books
Instructional
Theory of Tie Knots - Learn the 4 basic knots for neckties. Most of the site focuses on mathematical knot theory, but the bottom of the home page has 4 great pictures for tying the common necktie knots.
Ropers Knots Page: Knot site on knot-work in real rope and lines. - One of the largest sites on knots. Great place to start.
Shooting Star's Marlinspike Page - About 20 knots. Ugly but very effective animated drawings.
Knotboard of the Month Archive - About 16 knots. Very good HTML and PDF files with excellent drawings and text.
Learn2 Tie Basic Knots - Intro - A quick tutorial for 8 simple and common knots.
Troop 7 - How to Tie Knots - Good drawings of about 40 different knots. Oriented toward Boy Scouts.
BRMRG Knot Primer - Photographs of about 20 different knots. Oriented toward Wilderness Search and Rescue.
The FisherNet Knots List - Good but small drawings of 8 fishing knots. Good text directions.
Boating Rope Knots- 7 boating knots. Animated step by step drawings. No text.
Knots - 5 fishing knots. Very good step by step text instructions and drawings.
FM 5-125 Table of Contents - Army Field Manual section on knots.
Knotcraft by Stuart E. Grainger - Techniques for making nets.
Knots on the Web (Peter Suber) - A bigger and from the looks of it a better directory of knot related sites.
Non Instructional
THE INK GROUP - Knots - A knot calendar.
Starknot's Knotscape -- Knot Pics Page - Photos of fancy rope work and reviews of several knot books.
~ Alaska Museum of Fancy Knots ~ - Non instructional. Photographs of dozens of fancy knots.
FANCY KNOTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD - Non instructional. More photographs of fancy knots.
Organizations
igkthome - The International Guild of Knot Tyers.
International Guild of Knot Tyers - North American Branch -
Yahoo knot tyers club - Founded by the International Guild of Knot Tyers - North American Branch
The Cordage Institute - A rope making industry organization.
The Lehigh Group - Makers of rope.
Books
The Ashley Book of Knots - The encyclopedia of knots. More knots than you could ever learn. Considered by just about everyone to be the most complete work on knots.
The Klutz Book of Knots : How to Tie the World's 25 Most Useful Hitches, Ties, Wraps, and Knots - Great little book. A good book to start with, my copy even came with cords to tie.
The Complete Book of Knots - Far from complete, but beautifully done. Has several good knots that I hadn't seen before. Great, clear illustrations.