{
  "name": "Bowline: sources and claims",
  "desc": "What four public-domain manuals say about the bowline: how each describes or draws it, and the two 1917 statements that it does not slip, with whether any rope, load or test conditions are stated. Two rows record what no source read for this page covers. Lever (1843), Dana (1847), Verrill (1917) and The Bluejackets' Manual (1917), read 2026-11-14.",
  "lic": "CC BY 4.0",
  "lic_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "by": "Fold, Knot & Bind",
  "url": "https://foldknotbind.com/knots/bowline/",
  "from": [
    "Compiled by Fold, Knot & Bind from Lever (1843), Dana (1847), Verrill (1917) and The Bluejackets' Manual (1917), read 2026-11-14; program version bowline-gen 1.2"
  ],
  "how": "Compiled by Fold, Knot & Bind from the data listed"
}