Alpine butterfly bend

The butterfly bend is used to join the ends of two ropes together. It is a form of the Alpine butterfly, in that it is the butterfly loop with the loop cut.

Advantages

• Non-jamming

Disadvantages

• Not a well known bend - and so less practiced and easier to get wrong.
• If not tied correctly produces an inferior bend.

Tying

The butterfly bend can be tied using the methods for tying the Alpine butterfly loop form by treating the two ends as if they were a single bight. However, a caveat: Errors in tying the butterfly bend can result in a similar looking but insecure bend.

Using the rhyme "A dee through a bee; 'twixt the two and toward me":

Butterfly bend step by step

See also: Alpine bend on Animated knots

Related knots

• Alpine butterfly
• Hunter's bend
• Zeppelin bend
• Ashley's bend