Various Piko. 



115 



This is Piko A in its simplest form, and in the second figure a variation is shown where 

 the shuttle cord, after tj'ing at b, makes a different knot with a at c\ the details of which 

 are shown at c' . All the knots at c are tied similarly to c\ and at c" the order of tj'ing 



is merely reversed. The return cord c knots with a 

 at f as shown. 



Piko B (Fig. 112) is as in Piko A as far as c 

 where the shuttle cord is knotted siniplj^ thus leaving 

 a loop, through which the loop d is passed. Then the 

 shuttle is run twice round the loop r, and back through 

 the two loops thus made. This knot is the same as a 

 fisherman's knot with a double turn. Piko B differs 

 from the former in that an additional loop d is added 

 to each knotted loop c. 



Piko C (Fig. 114). — A simpler form than the 

 following piko. In this the cord is twice looped, and 

 the free end /; passed under the shuttle cord a and 

 around a and c. The loop d is left and the free end 

 knotted around the base of the loop, thus fastening the 

 ring. The shuttle is then sent around the ring aty^ 

 when the process of the first knot at c is repeated 

 reversed. 



Piko D (Fig. 116). — A double ring being made, 

 the free end is passed over the shuttle cord, under the 

 other ring cord and back over the shuttle cord, follow- 

 ing which a half hitcb is made around the ring and the 

 knot at b completed, Diag. i. Then, Diag. 2, three 

 loops are made through the ring at c/, the shuttle return- 

 ing at e and being sent around the loops and cord a three times and through the loops 

 thus formed. The knot at //, Diag. 3, is thus made, and the cord/ carried to the next 

 point ^^'^ on the ring, where the last described knot is repeated. 



Piko E (Figs. 117 and iiS). — In the samples examined, a double ring was 

 made, with the free end «, Diag. i. Fig. 117, passing under the shuttle cord d and over 

 the middle cord b. Then, Diag. 2, a is looped, passed through the ring at b and knotted 

 simply to itself at c\ looped again and a fisherman's knot with two turns run around 

 the part of the ring at b. This process results in the knot at //, Fig. 118. Then the 

 shuttle cord d^ after tying at c'\ continues, a.s> f /] the work of the piko, which is complete 

 when / joins the free end at / and begins the hanai asy. This piko in principle is 



