High-wire artist Philippe Petit’s rigging explained in Why Knot?, his new book on the art of knot tying. When Philippe Petit stepped out on a high-wire illegally strung between the twin towers of the ...

A long time ago, my father showed me how he tied a "Dutchman," a specialized knot used by truckers in the 1940s and '50s to tie a load onto a truck. But he never really taught it to me, so I didn't ...

Traditional knots in Korea called maedeup date back to the Three Kingdoms era of Baekje, Silla and Goguryeo. After undergoing centuries of change, today's maedeup have reasserted the Korean identity ...