Tying Larkshead Knots

Video Transcript

"The next knot we're going to tie is the larkshead. Many of us might know this knot as well. It tends to be a fairly natural knot to tie, when we're just trying to figure out how to make something work. You start by folding the rope in half, and you can take whatever you want to tie it around. It's often tied around a hook, or a hoop, and then you take the two ends, opposite ends of the rope, slide them through the loop, and go like so. The larkshead knot isn't always the most stable knot, but a way you can make it more stable, is simply by passing one end of the rope through it again, and this kind of makes it find up a little bit, which can also be more difficult to untie, but it's a lot more stable."