Ropewalk: A Cordage Engineer's Journey Through History

[BenD]

I have an interesting documentary about rope making I would like to share. It has some interesting information about the history of rope.

YouTube link below

Edit: Fixed the link

 

[Uwek]

 

[BenD]

Here is a couple of videos of some ropewalks in use

 

[Donnie]

Very nice - thank you for sharing.

 

[bill36]

Outstanding videos. Thanx!

 

[ConsNZ]

Here is a couple of videos of some ropewalks in use

Thank you. Very interesting.

 

[Steef66]

thanks for sharing

 

[Jimsky]

These are very educational videos. Thanks for sharing, Ben.

 

[BenD]

I found an interesting instructional video from WW2 on handling and care of rope.

 

[BenD]

I have found a video about the Halls Barton Ropery. The accounts from the people are kind of sad, They talk about injuries and that the buildings were not heated... people working in medieval working conditions up until 1989!

 

[BenD]

I found Another video about rope making. This time it's some old-timer Spaniards in the countryside making cordage. It shows the processing starting with the hemp fibers to the final product.

There are subtitles for this video, I don't know how accurate they are...

 

[ConsNZ]

I found Another video about rope making. This time it's some old timer Italians in the countryside making cordage. It shows the processing starting with the hemp fibers to the final product.

There are subtitles for this video, I don't know how accurate they are...

Excellent video, thank you very much for sharing. The elderly gentlemen are Spanish brothers.

 

[BenD]

Excellent video, thank you very much for sharing. The elderly gentlemen are Spanish brothers.

Shows how much I know about language

I'll go and edit that.

 

[Jack Sparrow]

It really is an art form isn't it. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Steef66]

Educating video, thanks for sharing

 

[Uwek]

Very interesting video - many thanks for sharing with us

 

[BenD]

I've found two more videos.

 

[Martin0]

I was in Chatham Dockyard last week, took some video in the Ropery, but it's too big a file to load up here, and so noisy.
Here's the big model of Victory instead.

 

[BenD]

Good lord that's a large Victory!

I'm trying to figure out the scale, 1/12th maybe. possibly larger...

@Martin0 you could put the video on youtube and we could post it here.

 

[Uwek]

John Lashbrook is the volunteer responsible for maintaining and cleaning the intricate model of Nelson's flagship, VICTORY, which has pride of place in our Command of the Oceans galleries.