How many of you can do this? At what age does Scouts expect a child to be able to do this? Ever tried to teach it? Have a look at the range of other knots that are out there? Some formally complex and others informally complex. The relationships between each part of the string is important. How long it needs to stay in that position also is too?
If your job is in the military? How important are these types of skills? How long did it take you to learn to do this in the military? Or did you already know it? Some teachers who were teaching us things at school may know the skills required of others and know how these links through Biology in High School might then link in with subjects and careers beyond. Are these skills also required in the Navy, how high up are those skills ‘still’ required? Does an Admiral link with a Biology high school teacher with their knowledge? They do. How many animals in the real world link like this? What types of spiders make these types of webs and how strong are their tensile strengths? How strong are the forces directed at something in outer space. What level of importance does knowing how to make these types of knots then have when it comes to designing things? Slight bit…
E.g. NASA creates new chainmail tyre – Youtube
Basket Weaving and Other Early OT Activities – article to read
How this type of skill can be used as an OT: ROM Stops finger splint plastic rods outrigger kit – youtube