I’m planning for Halloween extra-early this year so I can be sure I’ll get everything I need, and this problem just came up: my costume necessitates me wearing a cut-off noose around my neck, but I don’t want to wear something that could potentially be dangerous if someone pulled it or it caught on something. Is there any way for me to tie the rope so it wouldn’t be any more dangerous than a regular scarf or necklace, but still have it look like a proper noose?
Once you practice how to tie it, you could coat the rope in something like Gorilla Glue and do the final version. Let it dry and that should be held firmly in place. You could also take very fine wire or string and wrap it around your loops and tie it firmly at the end. Both of those should work. Leave it loose enough so that you can just slip it off. It won’t take away from your costume.
Good job on the first Halloween reference I have seen here. I just realized it isn’t that far away and it is my favorite holiday.
Tie a hangman’s noose but lengthen the short stub (that passes through the loop at the top of the coil in the photo), and have it as the long end. Pulling on this will not tighten the noose. To any casual observer it will look the same, and you then know that anyone who points out the mistake likes bondage or has considered suicide. The sliding end can be hidden inside the coil so there is no risk of anyone tightening the noose, and make the surrounding coil is loose enough to ensure it can be pulled free with ease.
ETA: The advantage to this method, in preference to glue or wire, is that the noose will undo with force.
Use sewing thread to attach one end of the loop next to the knot so that the thread breaks easily if yanked. Better yet use Velcro to attach one end of the loop near the knot. You don’t need to be a victim of accident or horseplay.
In theatre productions, it’s common to have the ‘noose’ part tied as a regular (NON-slip) knot, and then another piece of rope is used to form loops wrapped around that so that they ‘look’ good on stage.
Use two ropes, exactly the same type.
One loop goes only the length of the hangman coil, ends at the top, Tie the other around the ends of the fake loop, as a normal hangman noose, pulled up until it disappears into the coil. If it gets pulled, your fake loop slips out, and the “real” loop just comes untied.
Tris.
I hate to be a safety pussy but I would use some sort of breakaway device. Tie the knot and then cut the rope someplace and put a couple of stitches in it to hold it together but if it got hooked on something it would break.