Making Rope

Clip from Edwardian Farm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope
http://www.angelfire.com/journal/millbuilder/rope.html

Unfortunately, the germanicfolc channel has been suspended. However, the 'Edwardian Farm' and 'Victorian Farm' documentaries are available on this channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/zodiacza

Victorian Farm
http://www.youtube.com/user/zodiacza#p/c/501FFB0C0A528469

Edwardian Farm
http://www.youtube.com/user/zodiacza#p/c/8240969B2673A64C

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Edwardian
• Farm
• making
• rope
• walk
• sisal

[Desarcy]

@carmsbody2000

Friction.

The individual strands of the rope are twisted so that they apply friction on the other strands. You can hear him at around 2:12 say that you can see the twists working against each other. If you've every twisted a string or a rubber band so much that it curls up on itself, the part that curls up is twisted in the same fashion as the rope they're making.

[carmsbody2000]

What stops it from unwinding itself ?

[petesterful]

Very interesting!! Now I know how to make rope!

[Hothits2000]

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[19888rex]

woow very cool, but what tipe of cordage you use in this video? thaks so much. ale

[CriminalMindsILover]

i've seen this done before :)