decorative knots
Thedifferencebetweenutilityknotsanddecorativeknotsis
moresubtlethanit mayseem. Generallyknotswhoseonly
purposeistodecorateoradornorthosemadepurelyfortheir
appearanceareclassifiedasdecorative.Inreality.however.
very few knots are purely decorative, for most ofthem
combineaestheticqualitieswithspecificpracticalfunctions
whichareoftenquiteimportant.
Thischapterdoesnotpurporttocoverthewholeofthe
enormousfieldofso-calleddecorativeknots,buttheknots
presentedshouldatleastgivesomeideaofthisvastcategory.
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