List of knots

A

• Aberdeen knot - preferred for closure of intradermal sutures
• Adjustable bend – can be easily lengthened or shortened
• Adjustable grip hitch – a simple hitch which may easily be shifted up and down the rope while slack
• Albright special – used to tie two different diameters of line together, for instance to tie monofilament to braid
• Alpine butterfly – a static loop mostly used by mountain climbers and rappellers for securing a carabiner to static rope
• Alternate ring hitching – covering a ring in hitching can prevent damage
• Anchor bend – attaching a rope to a ring or similar termination
• Angler's loop – knot which forms a fixed loop. Useful for fine or slippery line, it is one of the few loop knots which holds well in bungee cord
• Arbor knot – attach fishing line to the arbor of a fishing reel
• Artillery loop a.k.a. a Manharness knot – a knot with a loop on the bight for non-critical purposes
• Ashley's bend – used to securely join the ends of two ropes together
• Ashley's stopper knot – trefoil-faced stopper at the end of the rope
• Axle hitch – used to tie a hitch in a hard-to-reach place

  B

• Bachmann knot – friction hitch useful when the knot needs to be reset quickly/often
• Bag knot – binding knot used to secure the opening of a sack or bag
• Bait loop – secures soft or loose bait in fishing
• Bale sling hitch – continuous loop of strap to form a cow hitch around an object
• Barrel hitch – suspends an object
• Barrel knot – joins sections of monofilament nylon line while maintaining much of the line's inherent strength
• Basket weave knot – a family of bend and lanyard knots with a regular pattern
• Becket hitch – any hitch made on an eye loop
• Beer knot – bend used in tubular webbing as in slings used in rock climbing
• Bimini twist – fishing knot used for offshore trolling and sportsfishing
• Blackwall hitch – temporary means of attaching a rope to a hook
• Blake's hitch – friction hitch commonly used by arborists and tree climbers as an ascending knot
• Blood knot – joins sections of monofilament nylon line while maintaining much of the line's inherent strength
• Blood loop knot – forms a loop which is off to the side of the line
• Boa knot – binding knot
• Boom hitch – attach a line to a fixed object like a pipe
• Bottle sling – used to create a handle for a container with a narrow tapering neck
• Bourchier knot – a variety of heraldic knot
• Bowen knot – not a true knot, a continuous loop of rope laid out as an upright square shape with loops at each of the four corners
• Bowline – forms a fixed loop at the end of a rope
• Boling knot – forms a fixed loop at the end of a rope
• Bowline on a bight – makes a pair of fixed-size loops in the middle of a rope
• Bumper knot – secures soft or loose bait in fishing
• Bunny ears
• Buntline hitch – attach a rope to an object
• Butterfly bend – connects two ends of rope
• Butterfly coil – a method for storing and transporting a climbing rope
• Butterfly loop – forms a fixed loop in the middle of a rope

  C

• Carrick bend – joins two lines of heavy rope or cable
• Carrick bend loop – used to make a loop at the end of a rope
• Carrick mat – flat woven decorative knot which can be used as a mat or pad
• Cat's paw – connects a rope to an object
• Catshank – variant of the sheepshank, clinched by two overhand knots with the bights passed through the twists
• Celtic button knot – a spherical decorative knot
• Chain sinnet – method of shortening a rope or other cable
• Chain stitch – a sewing and embroidery technique in which a series of looped stitches form a chain-like pattern
• Chair knot – knot tied in the bight forming two adjustable, lockable loops
• Chinese button knot – a decorative knot
• Cleat hitch
• Clove hitch – two successive half-hitches around an object
• Common whipping – series of knots intended to stop a rope from unraveling
• Constrictor knot – one of the most effective binding knots
• Continuous ring hitching – series of identical hitches made around a ring
• Corned beef knot – binding knot often used for binding the meat of the same name while it is being cooked
• Cow hitch – hitch knot used to attach a rope to an object
• Cow hitch and bowline – uses a continuous loop of strap to form a cow hitch around an object in order to hoist or lower it
• Cross constrictor knot – a variant of the Constrictor knot
• Crown knot – a knot made in the strands of the end of a rope – the start of a back splice
• Cowboy bowline – variation of the bowline loop knot

  D

• Diagonal lashing – lashing to bind spars or poles together to prevent racking
• Diamond hitch – lashing technique used mainly in the field of equine packing, to secure a set of objects
• Diamond knot – for forming a decorative loop on the end of a cord
• Directional figure eight – loop knot that can be made on the bight
• Distel hitch – secure friction hitch used for rope climbing
• Dogshank – variant of the sheepshank where the eyes formed at each end have the ends of the rope passed through
• Donkey’s bane – variation on the diamond knot
• Double anchorman knot – two or more pieces of rope joined together
• Double bowline – loop knot that uses a round turn
• Double carrick bend – join two lines together
• Double constrictor knot – binding knot that can be difficult to untie once tightened
• Double Englishman's knot – joins two lengths of rope
• Double figure eight bend – joins two ropes of roughly similar size
• Double figure-eight loop – forms two parallel loops
• Double figure eight – bulky stopper knot often tied near the end of a rope that is secure-when-slack
• Double fisherman's knot – joins two lengths of rope
• Double loop – for making loops at the end of lines similar to the Surgeon's knot, but with a double strand
• Double overhand knot – extension of the regular overhand knot, made with one additional pass
• Double overhand noose – hitch knot used to bind a rope to a carabiner
• Double pile hitch – attaches a rope to a pole or other structure
• Double sheet bend – doubles a sheet bend by making an additional round turn below the first and again bringing the working end back under itself
• Double windsor – method of tying a necktie around one's neck and collar
• Dropper loop – forms a loop which is off to the side of the line
• Dutch bend, useful for tying multiple lines together
• Dutch marine bowline – variation of the bowline loop knot

  E

• Egg loop a.k.a. bumper knot – secures soft or loose bait in fishing applications
• Englishman's knot – a bend consisting of two overhand knots, each tied around the standing part of the other
• Eskimo bowline – places a loop in the end of a rope
• European death knot – joins two ropes together
• Eye splice – creates a permanent loop in the end of multi stranded rope by means of rope splicing

  F

• Falconer's knot – used in falconry to tether a bird of prey to a perch
• Farmer's loop – midline loop knot made with a bight
• Farrimond friction hitch – quick release adjustable friction hitch for use on lines under tension
• Fiador knot – decorative, symmetrical knot used in equine applications
• Figure-eight knot a.k.a. savoy knot, Flemish knot – type of knot created by a loop on the bight
• Figure-eight loop – type of knot created by a loop on the bight
• Figure-of-nine loop – forms a fixed loop in a rope
• Fireman's chair knot – knot tied in the bight forming two adjustable, lockable loops
• Firm knot - Knots that hold firm under a variety of adverse conditions are said to be more secure than those that do not
• Fisherman's bend – used for attaching a rope to a ring or similar termination
• Fisherman's knot – knot for joining two lines with a symmetrical structure consisting of two overhand knots, each tied around the standing part of the other
• Flemish bend – knot for joining two ropes of roughly similar size
• Flemish knot a.k.a. figure-eight knot, savoy knot – knot for joining two ropes of roughly similar size
• French bowline – variant of the bowline with two loops
• French Machard knot – see Klemheist knot
• Friendship knot – decorative square knot used to tie a neckerchief and in Chinese knotting
• Friendship knot loop – a knot to tie a loop at the end of a rope

  G

• Garda hitch climbing knot that lets the rope move in only one direction
• Girth hitch
• Good luck knot
• Gordian knot – an inextricable/complicated knot, tied by King Gordius of Phrygia, that Alexander the Great cut with a sword
• Grantchester knot – a method of tying a necktie
• Granny knot – secures a rope or line around an object
• Grief knot – combines features of granny knot and thief knot
• Gripping sailor's hitch – used to tie one rope to another, or a rope to a pole, when the pull is lengthwise along the object
• Ground-line hitch – attaches a rope to an object

  H

• Half blood knot – for securing a fishing line to a fishing lure, snap or swivel
• Half hitch – simple overhand knot, where the working end of a line is brought over and under the standing part
• Half-Windsor knot – knot used for tying neckties
• Halter hitch – connects a rope to an object
• Halyard bend – a way to attach the end of a rope at right angle to a cylindrical object
• Handcuff knot – tied in the bight, having two adjustable loops in opposing directions
• Hangman's noose – well-known knot most often associated with its use in hanging a person
• Harness bend – used to join two ropes together
• Harness hitch – knot with a loop on the bight for non-critical purposes
• Heaving line knot
• Heaving line bend – used to attach playing strings to the thick silk eyes of the anchorage knot
• Highpoint hitch – used to attach a rope to an object
• Highwayman's hitch – insecure, quick-release, draw loop hitch for trivial use
• Hitching tie – simple knot used to tie off drawstring bags that allows quick access
• Honda knot a.k.a. lariat loop – loop knot commonly used in a lasso
• Hoxton knot – a method of arranging a scarf about the neck
• Hunter's bend a.k.a. rigger's bend – joins two lines