In my early
Navy days (a few years after “iron
men and wooden ships”), we were taught to use small stuff (another old
Navy term) as clothes ties. The method uses ten or twelve inch long pieces of about quarter inch line, cinched tightly to a couple of corners of each piece of
clothing with a
single tight overhand
knot. Both bitter ends are then tied to taut lines stretched between sturdy belaying points. In cold or rainy
weather, a steam room or
engine room was used...in warm
weather, Old Sol would make things dry and fresh.
Simple, inexpensive, reusable. Those tight overhand knots at the corners of wet cotton and wool
clothing held remarkably tight as the items dried. Some synthetics might demand another method.
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