Eye splice

This article is about the knot. For the record label, see Flemish Eye.

Eye splice
Names	Eye splice, sailmaker's eye splice
ABoK	#17, #2745, #2754
Instructions

Eye splices from Carl Smith's 1899 Båtseglareordbok

Eye splice from Alpheus Hyatt Verrill's 1917 Knots, Splices and Rope Work

The eye splice is a method of creating a permanent loop (an "eye") in the end of a rope by means of rope splicing.

The Flemish eye is a type of circular loop at the end of a thread. There are several techniques of creating the eye with its knot tied back to the line, rope or wire.