What is it?

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Originally Posted by scifan57

Important Announcement:
Early this morning,What is it? Passed Dream Heights's Neighbor code to move into 8th place in the top 10 list.
stranding made the post that enabled the thread to move into 8th place.
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Is that good :-) ?

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Originally Posted by scifan57

Sisal rope,traditionally used by navies and merchant ships. It would have been made by a rope maker in a rope walk. Made of sisal fiber from an Agave plant.

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Yes to all that. Made of sisal rope. I need a bit more. The object made with the rope, it's name. What the original thing was made for.
Here's another:

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Originally Posted by stranding

Is that good :-) ?

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Considering that there are 68,624 threads In the iPad forum right now,moving from last place to 8th place in just over 5 weeks is very good indeed.

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Originally Posted by stranding

Yes to all that. Made of sisal rope. I need a bit more. The object made with the rope, it's name. What the original thing was made for.
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You must mean the knot known as a Turks head. Turks heads were used as a decorative way to finish the end of a rope. Turks heads were also used on the end of a heaving line. The line was thrown to people on the pier and the other end was tied to a mooring line. The heaving line was then used to haul the end of the mooring line ashore to fit the eye on a cleat or bollard.

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Originally Posted by scifan57

Considering that there are 68,624 threads In the iPad forum right now,moving from last place to 8th place in just over 5 weeks is very good indeed.

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Oh, didn't know this was in last place that recently! Quite a turn-round then :-) But that's not top is it? Could we aim for that? Hard work is good for you!

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Originally Posted by scifan57

You must mean the knot known as a Turks head.

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Nope.
You could check out the IGKT Website.
(Extra info that's correct will gather ye brownie points, to be exchanged later in heaven.)

Here's what I asked for:

What is this?
What is it's name? (the object)
Where would it traditionally be found? (both the the rope and this made-up object)
Who would originally have been most likely to have made it? (you have the first person who made the rope but what about the next maker?)
What is the stuff it's made of?

For an extra bonus prize, what is the stuff inside it?

And I really want some indication of what the traditional use was, as well as the contemporary use of this particular object.

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Originally Posted by stranding

Oh, didn't know this was in last place that recently! Quite a turn-round then :-) But that's not top is it? Could we aim for that? Hard work is good for you!

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We are aiming for the top. What is it? Is accumulating posts at a faster rate than any thread above it in the list.

Is it part of a knot mat?

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How about the Monkey's Fist knot,used as the weighted end of a heaving line.

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Originally Posted by Richard Brown

Is it part of a knot mat?

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Yes to knot, no to mat!