Comments on: Terry Barns, Knot Tyer https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/23/terry-barnes-knot-tyer-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:59:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Eric F. https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/23/terry-barnes-knot-tyer-x/#comment-1264355 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 14:36:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172628#comment-1264355 Would love to see / know more about the bronze at Sclater St and Bethnal Green Rd. Will have to pop along and have a look.

]]> By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/23/terry-barnes-knot-tyer-x/#comment-1264342 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 13:38:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172628#comment-1264342 Thanks for continuing to shine a light on the Makers! It made me fingertips ache a bit to think of working with that formidable rope — but the outcome was oh-so-elegant. Strange coincidence, I was just coming to the computer to look up some info on Chinese Ball Buttons, and how they are
made. You might say, Terry is making buttons suitable for giants.

Well done, sir/s!

]]> By: Virginia Heaven https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/23/terry-barnes-knot-tyer-x/#comment-1264312 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 10:56:05 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172628#comment-1264312 Fascinating story thanks. I purchased the Ashley Book of Knots when I was at Art College for fashion in the 70s and made Monkey Fist buttons for one of my projects. It’s still one of my previous possessions. I gather “rigger” works as a term for knotting but means more than that too. Why not simply a “knotter” as a descriptive term for people who make knots?

]]> By: Bernie https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/23/terry-barnes-knot-tyer-x/#comment-1264294 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 09:57:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172628#comment-1264294 That rings many bells! I went to Parmiter’s School in Bethnal Green, but Grocer’s was much closer to my home; I don’t know why I went to the further one. In my third or fourth year I discovered Bethnal Green Library as a place to spend lunchtime and there discovered Ashley’s marvellous Book of Knots. My pockets thereafter bulged with hanks of parachute cord (it was wartime) and I would sit in the library trying to make and to learn the easier and more useful of Ashley’s knots. Eventually I bought my own copy, but I am afraid that “difficult” knots like the one Terry holds were never mastered.

]]> By: Mathilde Grange https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/23/terry-barnes-knot-tyer-x/#comment-1264287 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 09:34:51 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172628#comment-1264287 Knots are wonderful, and so is Terry.

]]> By: Paul https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/23/terry-barnes-knot-tyer-x/#comment-1264274 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 08:46:49 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172628#comment-1264274 Surely he should be living in noting hill or Nottingham ?

]]> By: Paul Loften https://spitalfieldslife.com/2019/02/23/terry-barnes-knot-tyer-x/#comment-1264269 Sat, 23 Feb 2019 08:18:41 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=172628#comment-1264269 The story of Terry’s life really roped me in ! It takes some skill to be able to make a knot as he displays. I should think you would need very strong hands as well as lots of patience

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