Reverse Wrap cordage is learned in the hands before the brain. It forces you into your body, to watch and try before you think. It's an amazing, meditative skill that can be practiced anywhere. That's why I love it.
I spent years trying, and failing, to learn reverse wrap. The skill only came to me when I stopped getting ahead of myself, quieted my mind, and watched. It's a slow skill, accessed through patience and humility. Cordage represents what I love about nature connection. Watching. Learning silently.
Everything is made of fibres. Plants, trees, mushrooms. The proteins we are made of, fibers. Our communities, family trees, the webs that weave us together, connections of fiber. String theory describes a universe held together by fibre. If everything is fibre, then everything can be corded. And if everything can be corded? Everything can have knots.
If we are all made of rope, and we are all knotted, I believe we must understand these knots. Bowline knots, slip knots, hitches, bends, all of them. To be “all knotted up“ isn’t a bad thing. Knots are what connect us.
