Horizontal double half hitch bar
How the Horizontal double half hitch bar is tied, what it is for, and how much cord it uses.
- Family
- hitch
- Difficulty
- easy
- CordsWorking strands the knot is tied with, fillers included
- 2
- Cord per finished cm (x)Cm of cord a working strand uses for each cm of finished knotting when the knot is repeated in a column (filler strands use about 1x). Used by the cord length calculator; empty when the knot is not repeated.
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- Height per knot (cord diameters)Finished height one knot adds to a column, in cord diameters (a square knot in 4 mm cord is about 1 cm tall). Empty when the knot is not repeated.
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- Used for
- A solid horizontal line across the work, to divide sections or to gather a row of cords into a band.
- How it is tied
- The outer cord is held straight across the work as the holding cord and every other cord in turn ties a double half hitch onto it. Keeping the holding cord tight and level is what makes the bar straight; pin its far end.
- Related knots
- double-half-hitch,diagonal-double-half-hitch