Once upon a time I watched a video that claimed the "proper" way to make a continuous loop was to create the Brummel, but then feed the tails back in the direction they came from instead of straight ahead into the weave on the other side.
But in searching YouTube videos, the first three examples showed what seems to be the more common method of (after making a Brummel lock) burying the line from the left into the line from the right; and the line from the right into the line from the left.
I think the alternate method suggested that wasn't the safest way and after making the Brummel, the line from left should be bent back to the left and buried on the left side; the line from the right should be bent back and buried on the right.
The video said at least a few "commercial" (cottage industry folk) create their continuous loops that way and you can tell because those loops have a telltale bump at the Brummel point (think of a boa constrictor that has swallowed a large meal).
Is this just something I dreamed or is this "back from whence it came" method a real thing?
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