{"id":3660,"date":"2009-06-24T07:32:40","date_gmt":"2009-06-24T12:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artofmanliness.com\/?p=3660"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:00:53","slug":"7-basic-knots-every-man-should-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/skills\/7-basic-knots-every-man-should-know\/","title":{"rendered":"7 Basic Knots Every Man Should Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"s3-img aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"sailors learning knots\" src=\"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2009\/06\/sailors.jpg\" alt=\"Vintage instructor teaching sailors how to tie knots.\" width=\"497\" height=\"363\" border=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>For centuries, knotsmanship has been passed down from generation to generation. It&#8217;s an essential skill whether a man desires to hit the high seas or scale a high mountain. Heck, knots come in handy when you&#8217;re just working around the house. Unfortunately, many men don&#8217;t know how to tie a proper knot. When they do have to tie something, they make random loops and passes until they have something that sort of looks like a knot, but isn&#8217;t as secure as one. So today we&#8217;re going to look at the art of knot tying.<\/p>\n<p>Below we&#8217;ve made a series of videos on seven basic knots every man should know. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<h3>All the Knots in One Video<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H1a2vrhhkIU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>The Square Knot<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OOXALMKsUhQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>The Bowline<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gJ0Y1pHJTg8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Two Half Hitches<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zrTNMI8R0j0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Taut Line<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GdSJO_713do\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Clove Hitch<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G5m389Isimw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Figure Eight Knot<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PQ-bRpqTVNU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Sheet Bend<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XTX88CJR4DY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For centuries, knotsmanship has been passed down from generation to generation. It&#8217;s an essential skill whether a man desires to hit the high seas or scale a high mountain. Heck, knots come in handy when you&#8217;re just working around the house. Unfortunately, many men don&#8217;t know how to tie a proper knot. When they do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,42259],"tags":[42284],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-skills","tag-knots"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sailors1-538x280.jpg","aom":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sailors1-372x230.jpg","reactor-320":"https:\/\/content.artofmanliness.com\/uploads\/2013\/12\/sailors1-320x234.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126118,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions\/126118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beta.artofmanliness.com\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}