Editing Sheet bend (section)

==Method==
[[File:QSM Weaver's knot.webm|thumb|right|Weaver at [[Queen Street Mill]] demonstrating a weaver's knot]]
[[Image:Weavers knot.jpg|thumb|right|Steps in tying a weaver's knot]]
The sheet bend may be tied by various methods: the basic "rabbit through the hole" method of forming a [[half hitch]] in the [[Bight (knot)|bight]] of the larger rope, by a more expedient method shown in Ashley as ABoK #1431 (similar to the method used by an experienced sailor or mountaineer to tie a bowline) or by a trick method (ABoK#2562), involving upsetting a noose knot over a short end of the "larger" rope. Lines of equal size may be joined with a sheet bend, but when one is larger, it plays the simpler role of the "eye" (red line shown in the infobox), rather than the half-hitch (in green)

One type of weaver's knot is [[topology|topologically]] equivalent to a sheet bend, but is tied (usually in smaller stuff) with a different approach. Sheet bends are also used for netting.
[[Image:Pêche DSC03035.JPG|thumb|right|A fish net made from sheet bends]]
The Ashley Book of Knots states that a left-hand sheet bend (where the two free ends are on opposite sides of the knot) is inferior to the regular sheet bend.<ref name="ashley16">{{cite book|title=The Ashley Book of Knots|last=Ashley|first=Clifford W.|publisher=Doubleday|year=1944 |url=https://www.liendoanaulac.org/space/references/training/Ashley_Book_Knots.pdf |pages=#67 and #1432|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181219231529/https://www.liendoanaulac.org/space/references/training/Ashley_Book_Knots.pdf |archive-date=19 December 2018 }}</ref>
More recent testing on the [[left-hand bowline]] has shown that there is little difference in strength between it and the regular [[bowline]],<ref>{{cite web |author1=Jan Simon |author2=Vladimir Dekys |author3=P. Palček |date=2019-11-15 |title=Revision of Commonly Used Loop Knots Efficiencies |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344689340_Revision_of_Commonly_Used_Loop_Knots_Efficiencies |access-date=2022-09-17 |website=ResearchGate |pages=413-414 |language=English}}</ref>
so it could also be said that there is little difference in strength between the left-hand sheet bend and regular sheet bend.
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Image:Schotstek rechts.jpg|Sheet bend 
Image:Schotstek links.jpg|Left-hand sheet bend
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