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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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