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Soft Shackles

I have saved a fortune on carabiners since I started making soft shackles from paracord. This particular use was hanging backpacks on a luggage cart at a hotel. Both are secured in place by tension on the stopper knot.

This is an example of a whipping knot. Not a great example because I forgot to secure it, and also I forgot the finishing square knot.

A closeup of my flawed whip knot on a pink soft shackle.

For quick deploys with stable tension, I don’t need to lock the soft shackle. If I was attaching the shackle where it would bounce around, then it would need a lock.

This is another shackle that is not secured by anything but the downward tension of the backpack and the placement of the stopper knot on the top of the bar.