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HISTORY AND SCIENCE OF KNOTS CONTENTS FRONT MATTER i PART I. PREHISTORY AND ANTIQUITY PART I. PREHISTORY AND ANTIQUITY 1 PLEISTOCENE KNOTTING Charles Warner and Robert G. Bednarik 3 WHY KNOT? — SOME SPECULATIONS ON THE EARLIEST KNOTS Charles Warner 19 ON KNOTS AND SWAMPS: Knots in European Prehistory Gerre van der Kleij 31 ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ROPE AND KNOTS Willemina Wendrich 43 PART II. NON-EUROPEAN TRADITIONS PART II. NON-EUROPEAN TRADITIONS 69 THE PERUVIAN QUIPU Antje Christensen 71 THE ART OF CHINESE KNOTWORK: A SHORT HISTORY Lydia H. S. Chen 89 INUIT KNOTS Pieter van de Griend 107 PART III. WORKING KNOTS PART III. WORKING KNOTS 133 KNOTS AT SEA Pieter van de Griend 135 A HISTORY OF LIFE SUPPORT KNOTS Charles Warner 149 PART IV. TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF KNOTS? PART IV. TOWARDS A SCIENCE OF KNOTS? 179 STUDIES ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF KNOTS Charles Warner 181 A HISTORY OF TOPOLOGICAL KNOT THEORY Pieter van de Griend 205 ON THEORIES OF KNOTS John Turner 261 TRAMBLES Geoffrey Budworth 299 CROCHET WORK—HISTORY AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS Sally Jo Cunningham 317 PART V. DECORATIVE KNOTS AND OTHER ASPECTS PART V. DECORATIVE KNOTS AND OTHER ASPECTS 333 THE HISTORY OF MACRAMÉ Roger Carter 335 A HISTORY OF LACE Europa Chang 347 HERALDIC KNOTS Charles Warner 381 ON THE TRUE LOVE KNOT Pieter van de Griend 397 BACK MATTER 419 Back

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