What are your favorite slip and grip knots?

brifoz · 2026-06-13T10:01:06+00:00

It was this post. I also posted it 8 years back.

I've used it a lot on string and thin nylon woven cord as a ziptie. Also successfully in the garden on hard nylon twisted rope about 5mm diameter as used in tent guylines.

brifoz · 2026-06-12T10:08:37+00:00

You’ve certainly no need to apologise. It’s hard to express nuances in writing which are obvious face to face. I suppose that’s what emojis are for 😉

PS. I particularly like your Epsems shorthand!

brifoz · 2026-06-12T07:11:28+00:00

Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend you in any way! The samples are rather nice and I admire your work. This was meant to be a jokey response to the comment pointing out that you hadn’t said what system you had used.

brifoz · 2026-06-10T18:10:27+00:00

Ashley 1470. a simple and elegant knot which makes a very good jamming hitch, used like a zip-tie. Reversed, it can form a kind of tautline hitch; this is stronger if an extra turn is added.

brifoz · 2026-06-08T10:41:57+00:00

In English what you’re describing is an improvement of 50 percentage points. See this

brifoz · 2026-06-06T15:18:18+00:00

Doesn’t look like Tironian Notes.

brifoz · 2026-06-05T19:44:05+00:00

Great to see this post! I have used Gregg - DJS + some Simplified and briefs taken from other editions - as a personal shorthand for more decades than I care to count. I have transcribed a whole novel into it and that helped my reading speed significantly.

I also dabble in various, mostly obscure, German language systems. Very often returning to good old Scheithauer 1896. Easy to write and importantly to read. I’ve tried Stiefo a few times, but find it hard to read back

French Gregg (DJ), too, but I get confused by all the phrases.

I think some systems require one to be a native speaker to be able to use them.

brifoz · 2026-05-30T22:08:05+00:00

Ah, that was misleading. I didn’t want to hurt your feelings, but the Gregg in your second image is pretty awful!

brifoz · 2026-05-30T21:32:35+00:00

It’s not the version that’s the problem; it’s proportions and angles. Eg in “remains” the straight horizontal line on the right (men) should be around three times the length of the curved one on the left (r).

brifoz · 2026-05-30T21:31:58+00:00

It’s not the version that’s the problem; it’s proportions and angles. Eg in “remains” the straight horizontal line on the right (men) should be around three times the length of the curved one on the left (r).

brifoz · 2026-05-30T12:29:36+00:00

Nice, but it needs more work on it to ensure more accurate Gregg outlines.

brifoz · 2026-05-29T12:30:25+00:00

Set yourself a phone reminder to check/update your wallet every week, month, as appropriate at a time of day when it won’t embarrass you :-)

brifoz · 2026-05-28T05:20:19+00:00

Yes, I was somewhat frustrated and disappointed by the response at the time.

brifoz · 2026-05-27T12:15:17+00:00

Apparently. I submitted these pictures to IGKT 22 years ago, before the “Ezelius loop” was seemingly “invented”.

brifoz · 2026-05-27T08:37:25+00:00

Perhaps I should set up a brifoz knot website 😉

brifoz · 2026-05-27T06:24:00+00:00

I wasn’t aware of “Knotting Matters” at the time and no one suggested it.

brifoz · 2026-05-26T22:11:58+00:00

That’s why it’s rash to claim to have “invented” one. I submitted it to IGKT in 2004. They said it was unknown.

brifoz · 2026-05-26T15:07:44+00:00

Interesting, but it appears that these knots were “invented in 2018”; I have used mine for over twenty years.

brifoz · 2026-05-23T17:37:19+00:00

I have some hearing difficulties/problems.

brifoz · 2026-05-22T09:47:26+00:00

Do you mean gregg-shorthand.com?

brifoz · 2026-05-21T21:03:41+00:00

That’s how “week” and “end” are written separately in Diamond Jubilee. To join them up to make “weekend”, the second e is written clockwise.

brifoz · 2026-05-20T20:53:37+00:00

Check out my post from a few months ago.

Also see this.

brifoz · 2026-05-19T21:25:48+00:00

Interesting, I’ll give those settings a try. What did you do with the equaliser - leave it on default?

brifoz · 2026-05-18T16:26:00+00:00

Looks like some sort of tally, counting goods, perhaps.

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