Fiador knot

Fiador knot

Knot-details
name=Fiador knot
names= Theodore knot


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type= loop
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related= Bottle sling
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uses= rope halters, hackamores, and hobbles
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abok_number= #1110

The fiador knot (also Theodore knot) is a decorative, symmetrical knot that is used in equine applications to create such useful items as rope halters, hobbles, and components of the "fiador" on some hackamore designs.

Etymology

The origin of Theodore knot, a variant name used in the United States, has a charming attribution:

Uses by equestrians

Uses of the fiador knot by horsemen are of several kinds.

*The knot often is used on the underside of the fiador of a hackamore. [Grant, Bruce and Rice, Lee. "How to Make Cowboy Horse Gear" Cornell Maritime Press; 2nd edition (June 1956), ISBN-10: 0870330349, ISBN-13: 978-0870330346] The knot is worked into the fiador as an open ring then slipped over a knob (heel knot) or ring on the bosal of a hackamore.

*On knotted rope halters, the knot often is used under the chin both as a decorative knot, and also to fashion the lower loop onto which a leadrope or similar leading device is attached. On a rope halter, the fiador knot is made from one continuous piece of rope, and is, along with a series of double overhand knots, one of two types of knots that comprise most rope halters.

*In North America, according to the "Ashley Book of Knots", Quotation|"Cowboys have employed the knot as a hackamore or emergency bridle. According to Philip Ashton Rollins, the method originated in the South American pampas and worked its way, via Mexico, to the Southwestern cow country, arriving there soon after the conclusion of the Spanish-American War."Clifford W. Ashley, "The Ashley Book of Knots" (New York: Doubleday, 1944), 201.]

*For a set of hobbles, a brass ring is attached to the double loops on one side of the knot to join the hobble for the horse's other front foot. On the other side, a diamond knot terminates the two loose ends and the single loop is placed over this to encircle the horse's fetlock. A small rope slide (melted with a solder iron) on this single loop is pushed against the diamond knot to prevent the loop from slipping off the foot.

References

External links

* [http://users.pandora.be/vandenberghe.jef/knots/knots.html?1 Tying a Fiador Knot]
* [http://www.gaitedhorses.net/Articles/RopeHalter/RopeHalter.html Rope Halter with a Fiador Knot]


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