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KNOTS AND SPLICES --- HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, ETC. --- KNOTS AND SPLICES --- HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, ETC.

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This essay in cultural anthropology provides a comprehensive view of the way primitive people in all parts of the world once utilized knots; mnemonic knots—to record dates, numbers, and cultural traditions; magic knots—to cure diseases, bewitch enemies, and control the forces of nature; and practical knots—to tie things and hold things together.In his discussion of mnemonic knots, the author analyzes the Peruvian quipus (or knotcalendars and knotrecords) and suggests that the Inca astronomerpriests, known to have been accurate observers of the movements of the planets, may also have been able to predict the dates of lunar eclipses; and he shows how it is possible to manipulate the Ina abacus in accordance with the decimal system.His treatment of magic knots includes instances from Babylonian times to the present, with curious examples of the supernatural power attributed to the Hercules knot (i.e., the square knot) in Egypt, Greece, and Rome. His analysis of a littleknown treatise on surgeons’ slings and nooses, written by the Green physician Heraklas, is the first detailed account of the specific practical knots used by the ancient Greeks and Romans.Quipus and Witches’ Knots, which is abundantly illustrated, often surprises the reader with the unexpected ways in which the once universal dependence of men on knots has left its mark on the language, customs, and thought of modern peoples.

Knots and splices. --- Quipu. --- Khipu --- Kipu --- Abacus --- Mathematical instruments --- Knotting and splicing --- Splicing --- Joints (Engineering) --- Marlinspike seamanship --- Ropework --- Ancient history

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"Faire des noeuds est un lent détour, un " innombrable retour " : un point de départ, et une direction indiquée, l'assignation d'une origine débouchant à l'autre extrémité sur une ouverture, avec entre les deux, une forme, un dessin, une idée qui se déploie et vous invite à suivre son fil. Autant dire que le noeud est un tout, forme un monde, une cosmogonie possible : le repli ou l'horizon, l'énigme et la solution, l'harmonie ou la rupture, l'individualisme ou le lien, l'attache ou la dérive, une entrave ou une envisageable liberté, un ancrage ou l'appel du lointain... Ce sont ces questions que tisse sans répit Jean-Pierre Husquinet, c'est entre ces pôles, moins contradictoires que complémentaires, qu'il serpente, sinue, s'égare pour se retrouver - jaillissant au sortir d'une forme parfaite lorsque l'on croyait l'artiste en train de s'emberlificoter, n'oubliant jamais de teinter d'humour et de couleurs vives la complexité retorse ou les méandres trompeurs de son matériau.

Cordage in art. --- Knots and splices in art --- Installations (Art) --- Textile crafts --- Cordes et cordages dans l'art --- Noeuds et épissures dans l'art --- Art textile --- Husquinet, Jean-Pierre --- Installations (art)