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Climbing SPRAY / Re: making hemp rope the old way
« Last post by rSin on November 09, 2023, 09:41:30 pm »ive made alot of cord,
but never rope
know the process but that really shed light on details of the process the basic presentations miss.w
what doing a good job involved
in ages past,
wouldnt have been some old men beating that out in a field
would have been teams of able bodies crowded pushing past each other left to right for miles churning out the amounts of rope each global empire need before steam
to say noting of the armies it would take to keep them in the combed fiber it would take just to do their work
we all know the birth of the clip knife
what we dont know as well is that lots of details of how sailing traders managed their rigging is lost
so we learn a great deal whenever shipwrecks are found in cold waters that preserve their rigging
how it was run,
what knots were used where
but never rope
know the process but that really shed light on details of the process the basic presentations miss.w
what doing a good job involved
in ages past,
wouldnt have been some old men beating that out in a field
would have been teams of able bodies crowded pushing past each other left to right for miles churning out the amounts of rope each global empire need before steam
to say noting of the armies it would take to keep them in the combed fiber it would take just to do their work
we all know the birth of the clip knife
what we dont know as well is that lots of details of how sailing traders managed their rigging is lost
so we learn a great deal whenever shipwrecks are found in cold waters that preserve their rigging
how it was run,
what knots were used where