There's some top 70s ropemaking action here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub7k...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub7k...
1977: A Traditional Yorkshire Rope Works | In the Making | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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April 20, 2026 at 9:25 PM
There's some top 70s ropemaking action here.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub7k...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub7k...
Aug. 28, 1925: The making of a rope in Chile. The country’s tropical regions abound in fibers that are ideal for ropemaking; workers stretch the strands for miles before winding them together.
August 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Aug. 28, 1925: The making of a rope in Chile. The country’s tropical regions abound in fibers that are ideal for ropemaking; workers stretch the strands for miles before winding them together.
Off to Dumbarton this evening to give a talk on the history of women in the maritime industries, to the Lennox Heritage Society: lennoxheritagesociet.wixsite.com/lennox-herit...
All welcome
All welcome
January 14, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Off to Dumbarton this evening to give a talk on the history of women in the maritime industries, to the Lennox Heritage Society: lennoxheritagesociet.wixsite.com/lennox-herit...
All welcome
All welcome
Fascinating blog about Mary Irwin, hugely successful ropemaking entrepreneur in early #Pittsburgh
northsidehistory.gallery/mary-irwin-p...
@politicdormouse.bsky.social
northsidehistory.gallery/mary-irwin-p...
@politicdormouse.bsky.social
Mary Pattison Irwin – Rope Way – by Gloria Forouzan
Cover image by Ken Petri – 2010
northsidehistory.gallery
January 28, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Fascinating blog about Mary Irwin, hugely successful ropemaking entrepreneur in early #Pittsburgh
northsidehistory.gallery/mary-irwin-p...
@politicdormouse.bsky.social
northsidehistory.gallery/mary-irwin-p...
@politicdormouse.bsky.social
#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 #artchallenge #art
Day 13: Tool
Still life of a variety of ropes and nets on a wall of the historic ropery at the Austrian Open Air museum in Stübing outside of Graz.
#photography #austria #graz #museum #rope #ropemaking #historic @bskyphotos.bsky.social
Day 13: Tool
Still life of a variety of ropes and nets on a wall of the historic ropery at the Austrian Open Air museum in Stübing outside of Graz.
#photography #austria #graz #museum #rope #ropemaking #historic @bskyphotos.bsky.social
January 13, 2025 at 7:31 AM
#JanuArty #JanuArty2025 #artchallenge #art
Day 13: Tool
Still life of a variety of ropes and nets on a wall of the historic ropery at the Austrian Open Air museum in Stübing outside of Graz.
#photography #austria #graz #museum #rope #ropemaking #historic @bskyphotos.bsky.social
Day 13: Tool
Still life of a variety of ropes and nets on a wall of the historic ropery at the Austrian Open Air museum in Stübing outside of Graz.
#photography #austria #graz #museum #rope #ropemaking #historic @bskyphotos.bsky.social
this helps explain the factories' relatively low throughput and indifferent performance at producing the mechs vs. basic equipment useful for the manufacture of pottery or ropemaking or slash-and-burn farming
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
this helps explain the factories' relatively low throughput and indifferent performance at producing the mechs vs. basic equipment useful for the manufacture of pottery or ropemaking or slash-and-burn farming
check this out gals, new ropemaking technology just dropped
'that's a baby crocodilian'
ok so maybe it's an old ropemaking technology, it really depends on whether you measure from when we came up with the idea or when the organism's lineage first developed-
'that's a baby crocodilian'
ok so maybe it's an old ropemaking technology, it really depends on whether you measure from when we came up with the idea or when the organism's lineage first developed-
March 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
check this out gals, new ropemaking technology just dropped
'that's a baby crocodilian'
ok so maybe it's an old ropemaking technology, it really depends on whether you measure from when we came up with the idea or when the organism's lineage first developed-
'that's a baby crocodilian'
ok so maybe it's an old ropemaking technology, it really depends on whether you measure from when we came up with the idea or when the organism's lineage first developed-
Your German word of the day is "#Kommandolochstab" 🏺 - but no need to bookmark it, a new study came up with pretty reasonable explanation for those #Paleolothic-#Mesolithic batons which, surprise, may not simply be #RitualObjects™:
www.science.org/content/arti... by @spoke32.bsky.social via Science
www.science.org/content/arti... by @spoke32.bsky.social via Science
Puzzling prehistoric artifacts served a practical purpose: ropemaking
Once thought to be ritual wands or scepters, archaeologists crafted cords using replicas of the ancient tools
www.science.org
February 2, 2024 at 6:40 AM
Your German word of the day is "#Kommandolochstab" 🏺 - but no need to bookmark it, a new study came up with pretty reasonable explanation for those #Paleolothic-#Mesolithic batons which, surprise, may not simply be #RitualObjects™:
www.science.org/content/arti... by @spoke32.bsky.social via Science
www.science.org/content/arti... by @spoke32.bsky.social via Science
@timqueeney.bsky.social explores ropemaking, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Mocha Dick, the real life inspiration behind Herman Melville’s iconic white whale.
On “Mocha Dick,” the White Whale of the Pacific that Influenced Herman Melville
In 1839 Jeremiah N. Reynolds, an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer, and writer, published a curious tale of a famously fierce bull whale. The article, published in The Knickerbocker; or…
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August 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
@timqueeney.bsky.social explores ropemaking, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Mocha Dick, the real life inspiration behind Herman Melville’s iconic white whale.
ok i have
scenario: evacuee
profession: survivor
backgrounds: standard + reading, ropemaking, parkour
stats: 8 str, 8 dex, 10 int, 10 per
traits: accomplished sleeper, bookworm (from Reading), indefatigable, introvert
skills: applied science 2, electronics 1, fabrication 2, survival 1
scenario: evacuee
profession: survivor
backgrounds: standard + reading, ropemaking, parkour
stats: 8 str, 8 dex, 10 int, 10 per
traits: accomplished sleeper, bookworm (from Reading), indefatigable, introvert
skills: applied science 2, electronics 1, fabrication 2, survival 1
July 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
ok i have
scenario: evacuee
profession: survivor
backgrounds: standard + reading, ropemaking, parkour
stats: 8 str, 8 dex, 10 int, 10 per
traits: accomplished sleeper, bookworm (from Reading), indefatigable, introvert
skills: applied science 2, electronics 1, fabrication 2, survival 1
scenario: evacuee
profession: survivor
backgrounds: standard + reading, ropemaking, parkour
stats: 8 str, 8 dex, 10 int, 10 per
traits: accomplished sleeper, bookworm (from Reading), indefatigable, introvert
skills: applied science 2, electronics 1, fabrication 2, survival 1
As soon as I figure out how to avoid the side effects, we can try another test. I believe the local ropemaking guild only just cleared the backorders accumulated since our last test trial 😅
June 17, 2026 at 3:49 PM
As soon as I figure out how to avoid the side effects, we can try another test. I believe the local ropemaking guild only just cleared the backorders accumulated since our last test trial 😅
A podcast on ropemaking, a podcast on 3d printing, a podcast on cryptocurrency, a podcast on forensics, a podcast on extradition law.
September 17, 2025 at 4:52 AM
A podcast on ropemaking, a podcast on 3d printing, a podcast on cryptocurrency, a podcast on forensics, a podcast on extradition law.
Keen to learn more about today's #OccupationOfTheDay?
Ropemaking is one of the Endangered crafts on the Heritage Craft Association's list: their directory offers lots of info about its history, traditions and techniques...
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Ropemaking is one of the Endangered crafts on the Heritage Craft Association's list: their directory offers lots of info about its history, traditions and techniques...
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Rope making - Heritage Crafts
Charity that promotes, safeguards and celebrates heritage craft skills in the UK
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February 25, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Keen to learn more about today's #OccupationOfTheDay?
Ropemaking is one of the Endangered crafts on the Heritage Craft Association's list: their directory offers lots of info about its history, traditions and techniques...
buff.ly/3Qpgpxv
Ropemaking is one of the Endangered crafts on the Heritage Craft Association's list: their directory offers lots of info about its history, traditions and techniques...
buff.ly/3Qpgpxv
creature exhibiting peculiar ropemaking talents
April 15, 2026 at 7:36 PM
creature exhibiting peculiar ropemaking talents
I'll be running a Ropemaking workshop on Saturday 28th February @DoESLiverpool.
Suitable for adults and children. Can be used for skipping. Pay what you can. Book your half hour slot via Eventbrite:
Ropemaking Workshop (Adults + Kids Welcome!)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ropemaking...
Suitable for adults and children. Can be used for skipping. Pay what you can. Book your half hour slot via Eventbrite:
Ropemaking Workshop (Adults + Kids Welcome!)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ropemaking...
Ropemaking Workshop (Adults + Kids Welcome!)
Come and learn the satisfying craft of ropemaking, using unwanted yarn in the colours of your choice.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 12:09 PM
I'll be running a Ropemaking workshop on Saturday 28th February @DoESLiverpool.
Suitable for adults and children. Can be used for skipping. Pay what you can. Book your half hour slot via Eventbrite:
Ropemaking Workshop (Adults + Kids Welcome!)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ropemaking...
Suitable for adults and children. Can be used for skipping. Pay what you can. Book your half hour slot via Eventbrite:
Ropemaking Workshop (Adults + Kids Welcome!)
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ropemaking...
tow! (ie. leftover bits from ropemaking)
January 2, 2025 at 6:06 AM
tow! (ie. leftover bits from ropemaking)
NZ flax (which isn’t flax) is called manila in Chile because, like Manila hemp, it was used for ropemaking. Manila hemp (which isn’t hemp) is fibre from type of banana called abaka that grows in the Philippines. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abac%C3...
Abacá - Wikipedia
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May 6, 2024 at 8:18 PM
NZ flax (which isn’t flax) is called manila in Chile because, like Manila hemp, it was used for ropemaking. Manila hemp (which isn’t hemp) is fibre from type of banana called abaka that grows in the Philippines. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abac%C3...
CBC Quirks and Quarks did a bit on a bone tool that seems to have been used for spinning rope.
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
New discoveries show early humans lived in the frigid north alongside Neanderthals | CBC Radio
New discovery of human bones suggest that Homo sapiens were living side by side with Neanderthals in Northern Germany, 46,000 years ago. Another discovery of a stone-age ropemaking tools is shedding l...
www.cbc.ca
January 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
CBC Quirks and Quarks did a bit on a bone tool that seems to have been used for spinning rope.
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
I'm reminded also of Gabriel Harvey and the way his disappointed ambition left him open to some spectacular twitting by Thomas Nashe. Nashe's advice was the best: If my father was a rope-maker, I would show ropemaking to be one of the seven liberal arts. (from memory; not an exact quotation)
February 1, 2026 at 10:43 AM
I'm reminded also of Gabriel Harvey and the way his disappointed ambition left him open to some spectacular twitting by Thomas Nashe. Nashe's advice was the best: If my father was a rope-maker, I would show ropemaking to be one of the seven liberal arts. (from memory; not an exact quotation)
I usually don't post videos, but this process is so fascinating: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9oo... #CoconutRope #TraditionalCraft #VillageLife #Handmade #EcoFriendly #RopeMaking #VillageCraft #RuralSkills #Recycling #folklore #folkcraft #folkloring
Coconut Rope Making Process | Traditional Village Craft
YouTube video by Amazing collection
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May 26, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I usually don't post videos, but this process is so fascinating: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9oo... #CoconutRope #TraditionalCraft #VillageLife #Handmade #EcoFriendly #RopeMaking #VillageCraft #RuralSkills #Recycling #folklore #folkcraft #folkloring
Ropemaking is expected to become a high-growth profession in the U.S. in the coming years.
January 18, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Ropemaking is expected to become a high-growth profession in the U.S. in the coming years.
16. Well as ropemaking facilities. The shipyards are under direct Archyne control, overseen by the Soprokatos via his ministers, though the city is largely independent and the Episton (commander) of the shipyards is effectively ruler. Whether they are amenable to corruption is up to them as--
September 16, 2026 at 11:05 PM
16. Well as ropemaking facilities. The shipyards are under direct Archyne control, overseen by the Soprokatos via his ministers, though the city is largely independent and the Episton (commander) of the shipyards is effectively ruler. Whether they are amenable to corruption is up to them as--
New discoveries show early humans lived in the frigid north alongside Neanderthals
Ancient human bones and a stone-age ropemaking tool are re-writing human history
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
Ancient human bones and a stone-age ropemaking tool are re-writing human history
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
www.cbc.ca
February 5, 2024 at 12:53 PM
New discoveries show early humans lived in the frigid north alongside Neanderthals
Ancient human bones and a stone-age ropemaking tool are re-writing human history
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
Ancient human bones and a stone-age ropemaking tool are re-writing human history
www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
And, on that note, Trump has just bought $50m of shares in a ropemaking company. 🤣🤣🤣
July 9, 2026 at 4:19 PM
And, on that note, Trump has just bought $50m of shares in a ropemaking company. 🤣🤣🤣