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 ...

Commercial fishermen use lines, or ropes, for a variety of purposes. Boat anchors, nets and buoys all need to be secured and safely managed. A working knowledge of knots is a necessity. If you open a ...

Let’s start with the basics: The running end is the end you manipulate. The standing end is the part you don’t manipulate. The bight is the curve between the running end and the standing end.

The square knot was historically known as the Hercules knot. While the name suggests strength, I think it’s fair to say associating it with Hercules is a bit misleading. The square knot is useful for ...

It's hard to miss Janet Echelman's massive new public art project on the Rose Kennedy Greenway. The award-winning Brookline resident's 2,000-pound sculpture is suspended between three skyscrapers and ...