For many of us, untangling our earbuds is the extent of our survivalist knot knowledge. Tying knots is just for sailors and mountain climbers, right? Turns out, there are a few simple knots that you ...

Artist Alex Buchanan is an accomplished photographer, printmaker, painter and semiotician. But it is his sculptures, in which he utilizes complex knots and enormous segments and strands of rope, that ...

Kayla Levy is a writer particularly passionate about indoor plants and outdoor gear. She used to write about cities at Time Out (and she still enjoys writing about the Park Slope Food Co-op).

The knot-tying craft popular in the 1960s and ’70s is turning up on the runways again. (Maybe you can find a vest your mother or grandmother made.) By Melanie Abrams When Venus Williams donned a ...

“Man on Wire” star Philippe Petit was welcomed by a packed auditorium for his discussion about his new book “Why Knot?” on Sunday at the L.A. Times Festival of Books. Each member of the ...

A damaged rope can be totally useless for doing most tasks safely, especially if the damaged section is somewhere in the middle. This simple knot can bypass the damaged section and make the rope ...

The ancient art of macrame is all over our feeds right now. Follow this step-by-step guide by macrame maker, Emily Otchie, to get to grips with knotting and weaving at home. Welcome to The Curiosity ...

ROPE: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibers Became the Backbone of Civilization. By Tim Queeney. St. Martin’s Press. 336 pages. $27. Counter-intuitive as it seems, a knot makes a length of rope weaker, not ...