Alphabetical List of knots
The variant knot names are included in the list with redirecting links to the most formal name. (approx 300 knots are list at this time)
- adjustable bend
- adjustable hitch
- adjustable loop
- albright knot
- alpine butterfly bend
- alpine butterfly knot
- alpine butterfly loop
- alpine coil
- alternate ring hitching
- anchor bend
- angler's knot
- angler's loop
- arbor knot
- artillery loop
- asher's equalizer
- ashley's stopper knot
- bachmann knot
- bag knot
- bait loop
- bale sling hitch
- barrel knot
- barrel sling
- becket hitch
- bimini twist
- binder's knot
- blackwall hitch
- blake's hitch
- blood knot
- blood loop dropper knot
- boa knot
- boas bowline
- boatman's knot
- boom hitch
- bottle sling
- bottom loaded release hitch
- bow knot
- bowline on bight
- bowline
- bowstring knot
- braid knot
- brummycham bowline
- buffer knot
- builder's knot
- buntline hitch
- carrick bend
- carrick mat
- cat's paw
- caver's helical knot
- chain hitch
- chain stitch lashing
- chi-fi knot
- chinese button knot
- chinese cross knot
- chinese good luck knot
- chinese lanyard knot
- clinging clara
- clove hitch
- common whipping
- constrictor knot
- continuous ring hitching
- cow hitch with toggle
- cow hitch
- cow-tie knot
- cross-prusik knot
- crossing knot
- diamond hitch
- diamond knot
- double bowline
- double carrick bend
- double chain
- double chain
- double figure eight bend
- double figure eight
- double friction hitch
- double grinner knot
- double harness bend with parallel ends
- double munter friction hitch
- double overhand bend
- double overhand loop
- double overhand sliding loop
- double overhand
- double pile hitch
- double prusik knot
- double ring hitching
- double scaffold knot
- double sheet bend
- double stopper
- double uni knot
- draw kot
- dropper loop
- duncan loop
- dutch marine bowline
- dutra double loop knot
- eight-strand sennit
- eight strand square plait
- englishman's knot
- englishman's loop
- eskimo bowline
- extended french prusik knot
- eye splice
- farmer's knot
- farmer's loop
- figure-of-eight coil
- figure-of-eight follow through
- figure-of-eight hitch
- figure-of-eight knot
- figure-of-eight loop
- figure-of-eight coil
- fireman's chair knot
- fireman's coil
- fisherman's bend
- fisherman's eye
- fisherman's knot
- flemish bend
- flemish knot
- four-strand braid
- four-strand plait
- four-strand sennit
- french bowline
- french prusik knot
- frost knot
- gaff topsail halyard bend
- good luck knot
- granny knot
- grief knot
- grinner knot
- gripping sailor's hitch
- ground-line hitch
- half blood knot
- half hitching
- half hitch
- halibut knot
- halter hitch
- halyard bend
- handcuff knot
- hangman's noose
- harness bend
- heaving line bend
- heaving line knot
- hedden knot
- hight post hitch
- highwayman's hitch
- hitching tie
- honda knot
- hunter's bend
- icicle hitch
- improved clinch knot
- italian hitch
- jamming hitch
- jansik special
- japanese crown knot
- japanese success knot
- jar sling
- jug sling
- jury mast knot
- killick hitch
- klemheist knot
- knife lanyard knot
- knute hitch
- kreuklem knot
- lariat loop
- lark's foot
- lark's head
- lighterman's hitch
- lineman's loop
- linfit knot
- long mat
- machard tresse
- magnus hitch
- major turle's knot
- manharness knot
- mariner's knot
- marline hitching
- marlinespike hitch
- midshipman's hitch
- miller's knot
- monkey's fist
- mooring hitch
- munster hitch
- munter friction hitch
- munter mule
- nail knot
- ocean plait
- one way sheet bend
- orvis knot
- ossel hitch
- ossel knot
- overhand bend
- overhand knot and half hitch
- overhand knot with draw loop
- overhand knot
- overhand loop
- oysterman's stopper knot
- packer's knot
- painter's hitch
- paldo tackle
- palomar knot
- pedigree cow hitch
- peg knot
- penberthy knot
- perfected whipping
- perfection loop
- pile hitch
- piwich knot
- plafond knot
- plank sling
- poldo tackle
- pole lashing
- portuguese bowline
- prusik knot
- quick hitch
- racking bend
- racking seizing
- reef knot
- rigger's bend
- ring hitch
- ring knot
- ringbolt hitching
- rolling hitch
- round hitch
- round mat
- round seizing
- round turn and two half hitches
- round turn
- running knot
- running loop
- rustler's knot
- sack knot
- sail maker's whipping
- sailor's knot
- sailor's hitch
- savoy knot
- scaffold knot
- seizing bend
- shake hands
- sheep shank man o' war
- sheepshank
- sheet bend
- simple chain
- simple knot
- simple noose
- simple simon double
- simple simon over
- simple simon under
- single hitch
- single stopper
- six strand round plait
- sliding loop
- sliding ring hitch
- slip knot
- slipped overhand knot
- slipped buntline hitch
- slippery eight loop
- slippery hitch
- slippery round hitch
- snuggle hitch
- spade end knot
- span loop
- spanish bowline
- splice
- square knot
- square lashing
- square turk's head
- stevedore's knot
- strangle knot
- strop bend
- surgeon's end loop
- surgeon's knot
- surgeon's loop
- tarbuck knot
- taut-line knot
- thief knot
- three quarter figure eight loop
- three way sheet bend
- three-strand braid
- thumb knot
- tiller's hitch
- timber hitch
- tom fool's knot
- top loaded release hitch
- transom knot
- trilene knot
- triple bowline
- triple figure eight
- triple overhand knot
- trucker's hitch
- true lover's knot
- tug boat hitch
- tumbling thief knot
- turle knot
- twined turk's head
- two half hitches
- two strand braid
- two strand overhand knot
- underhand loop hitching
- uni knot
- valdotain tresse
- versatackle knot
- vibration-proof hitch
- vice versa
- wagoner's hitch
- water bowline
- water knot
- waterman's knot
- weaver's knot
- west country whipping
- wrapped and reef knotted coil
- yosemite bowline
- zeppelin bend
- zepplin bowline
- zigzag braid