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How-To: Weave a rope mat

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How-To:  Weave a rope mat
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Iโ€™ve seen this thing referred to as an โ€œOcean Mat,โ€ a โ€œProlong Knot,โ€ a โ€œLadder Mat,โ€ and a โ€œSailorโ€™s True Love Mat.โ€ Whatever you want to call it, itโ€™s a noble expression of the manly art of knot-tying, and this tutorial at the UKโ€™s Scullion Enterprises will show you how itโ€™s done.

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I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't โ€“ Magazin fรผr Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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