Nodes. We all need and use of knots. The laces tie us to Grandma's Christmas present we are using, but we can tie a knot that keeps slipping, and may not be related, if we want?
Learning a few simple knot is one of the most useful things that we use as we all do in everyday life. The simple granny knot 'is something we know all the slides, but 9 out of 10 times it will. Use the square knot and hold it instead. And for the windward? Very easy to tie knots andfor many of the things binding on roof of car for the mooring of a boat. Can you tie a bowline?
All sailors can tie a lot of nodes for various purposes, and some even tie decorative knots, just because they can. An old pastime on board ship, but very useful. In the days of ships sailing in a node could well mean the difference between life and death, if things are going to lose.
The difference between a "granny knot and square knot is a simple rotation, butamazing how many people end up each time with a "grandmother". Just remember "from left to right and below, from right to left and below" ... we have a square knot. Two "left overs" to "grandmother". (From The grandmother recalled the leftovers)
Bowlines, failures, Fisherman's, Weber, seizure, shortenings, artillery, etc. All catspaws strange name, but easy to learn and improve access to a constant "Grandma" when you need something safe use.
Groped to describe the relationship between aNode without a chart is very difficult to do and even harder to understand, and unfortunately I can not put images in this article. But I can point to a good source of patterns and this will be seen in my resource box below.
I think I seriously urge you to learn some good knots, if you're a camper or an outside person, such as tents and equipment is based on good reliable knots most of the time. Shortly spent hours learning a piece of rope to save hours of frustrationafter ... especially if you fall your tent blows away your shelter or your equipment is your stand on the roof, even before you get to your campsite.