Seriously, buggered if I know, but this is apparently what experiments indicate. They're two different knots, btw, not just mirror images of each other. In the right-handed version, the working end (the "rabbit") goes around the back of the standing end (the "tree") and ends up hanging down into the loop, and in the left-handed version it goes around the front of the standing end and ends up sticking out to the side. I tried to knock up some sketches to show the difference, but can't get them to display properly :-(
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Seriously, buggered if I know, but this is apparently what experiments indicate. They're two different knots, btw, not just mirror images of each other. In the right-handed version, the working end (the "rabbit") goes around the back of the standing end (the "tree") and ends up hanging down into the loop, and in the left-handed version it goes around the front of the standing end and ends up sticking out to the side. I tried to knock up some sketches to show the difference, but can't get them to display properly :-(