Do you know what a sheepshank is? How about a sheet bend, a carrick bend, a clove hitch or an Eskimo bowline? Not familiar with Western culture? Then perhaps you know the Pan Chang, Chinese button or ...

For many of us, untangling our earbuds is the extent of our survivalist knot knowledge. Tying knots is just for sailors and mountain climbers, right? Turns out, there are a few simple knots that you ...

Every Boy Scout and sailor learns them: clove hitches, sheet bends, half hitches and bowlines — knots to tie ropes together or to something. Wesley E. Sullivan III learned them as a Scout in East ...