In today’s world the Sailors Whisk makes a good crumb sweeper for a table or as a scouring brush for cleaning pots and pans.

In this little knotting project I will be showing how to make a sailors whisk using a footrope knot (also known as a diamond knot or lanyard knot) This is a fairly simple knotting tutorial, the hardest part is the time it takes to separate the fibres of the rope.