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Publication of commercial use: AWES6456

• The major chore in building a giant tarp kite is the hundreds of soft shackles made of small bits of line. These are like protein structures in biology. The simplest and most numerous "molecule" is a simple loop closed in a stopper-knot. A single overhand loop suffices to make a locking knot, with the heat sealed ends mushroomed into a stopper flange. One can larks-head these together in endless combinations, but in the present case they are used to interface the tarp grommets to rope load-path Prusiks.  ~ Dave Santos, May 25, 2012

• The Prusik knot was developed in 1931 by Dr. Karl Prusik.