Tied Up in Knots

I LOVE KNOTS. There’s magic in taking a piece of rope and, with a few bends and turns, creating a remarkable structure that is as useful as it is attractive.

I’m also delighted to know that people sitting around campfires thousands of years ago taught knots to one another just as Scouts might today. Their world was different from ours, but the experience of forming knots — and many of the knots themselves