Here's the video for those who want it. The spilled marlinspike hitch method of bowline tying is the very first thing he does.

Just felt like an XKCD character when I assumed my partner would be just as excited as myself at a video demonstrating a marlinspike hitch spilling into a bowline.
My online Moby Dick book club's reading for the week starts with Chapter 47, "The Mat Maker", which opens with Queequeg and Ishmael working on sword mats. Since on the nerd Venn diagram I sit at the intersection of "in an online Moby Dick book club" *and* "a member of the International Guild of Knot Tyers"", I decided to tie an example of a sword mat (which is the flat part of this assembly; the ring at the end is technically a simple ringbolt hitch.)
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How to macramé: The 7 knots you need to know
https://www.prima.co.uk/craft/a30497551/macrame/
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🪢 Nouvel entrelacs. En ce solstice je découvre les dessins entrelacés, entre branches et phylactères, de @alexfreikhadavali
https://www.entrelacs.art/solstice-234-alex-frei-khadavali/