Use: Used a component in a back splice and in the double crown knot. Can be used to temporarily prevent the ends of a laid rope from unraveling. 
 
How to tie:
  
 
- Make a constriction around the rope about 7.5 cm
  from the end. You can constrict it by tying a constrictor knot around the rope with a bit of twine, or you can tape it. 
- Unravel the end of the rope all the way to the constriction.
 
- Bind the ends of the strands with tape to keep them from unraveling.
 
- Double one strand (strand A) over itself and lay it between the other two (strands B and C), leaving a loop in its center.
 
- Pull strand B over the end of strand A and lay it between strands A and C.
 
- Pass strand C through the loop made in strand A.
 
- Tighten all three strands carefully.
 
 
See  http://www.ropeworks.biz/archive/Acrown.html for an animation.  
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