One expects a student’s life to have a certain ascesis to it. One, for instance, does not buy rings for one’s napkin, one makes them. And so I procured some cord (the seller considered me carefully and then said that I had a face which permitted me to indulge in sailing, which in turn justified buying cord to tie knots—‘Sailors fiddle’, she said approvingly; though I cannot play the violin). And I procured a helpful video on the tying of 3-lead 8-bight Turks Heads, because I can never remember any of these fancy knots. Yet being a student is no cause for shoddy workmanship. It seems I cannot recognise cotton, for I tried a butane backsplice. But lo! cotton does not melt. So the question is, how small a sailmaker’s whipping can you make?
That’s pretty small. And here they are:
