There are several techniques of creating the eye with its knot tied back to the line, rope or wire.

An eight-strand square plaited rope can be used as mooring line or anchor rode.

[8] The principle of a Dyneema eye is a core-to-core splice, in which a length of at least 60 times the diameter of the rope is taken back into itself.

One can pull out the eye when the rope is not under tension, unless one makes a lock-splice (also called brummel splice).

The cover can be used optionally in the eye splice, for example, to add UV protection (for aramid fibers, such as Kevlar).

For these ropes, one could make an eye splice in the single braided core and leave the cover unused.

Splices average 25-40% of rope strength decay, which is low compared to even the strongest knots.

[10] Literature and reference sources typically attribute only a 5% strength decay for a properly tied splice.

Technically, a perfectly tied splice retains 100% of the original strength of the rope but in practice this is rarely the case.

The bowline is a quick, practical method of forming a loop in the end of a piece of rope.