If you need to add a new rope to a frame line
A quick aside before we begin the main event:
If you need to add a new rope to a frame line, lay the bight on top of the line.
Bring the bight behind the frame line.
Pull the tail through the bight to form a Lark’s Head.
If you want this connection to look more like how a Cow Hitch, turn it into a Prusik Head. To do this, pull the bight out…
…continue wrapping it around the frame line in the same direction it was going…
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…then run the tail through the bight a second time.
Tighten. This is a Prusik Head.
Here you can see a Cow Hitch next to a Prusik Head. You can see how they rhyme.