Philippe Petit: Why Knot? - The Art of Tying

In 1974, Philippe Petit stunned the world with his performance on an illegally rigged high wire between the Twin Towers—an event chronicled in the Academy Award-winning documentary Man on Wire and Colum McCann’s National Book Award-winner, Let the Great World Spin.

Petit could never have done it, however, without his incredible knotting skills. Join us for an entertaining presentation on these useful, beautiful, life-saving, magical, intriguing and secure knots.

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