Rope Maker Collection

Nylon yarn enough to make ten thousand pairs of stocking is being used to make tow ropes for British tugs. Our picture shows Margaret Carr from Portabelle in Edinburgh

Rope maker twisting rope yarns together while an apprentice turns a wheel to revolve the hook
FLO4577592 Rope maker twisting rope yarns together while an apprentice turns a wheel to revolve the hook. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades

Affray between soldiers and rope-makers, Boston
3784418 Affray between soldiers and rope-makers, Boston; (add.info.: Affray between soldiers and rope-makers, Boston, America, March 1770)

Rope maker twisting rope yarns together on a rope walk while an apprentice turns a wheel to revolve the hook. Handcoloured woodcut engraving from The Book of English Trades

The Rope Maker (engraving)
6004275 The Rope Maker (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Rope Maker. Illustration for The Book of English Trades and Library of the Useful Arts)

Rope Maker, from The Hindus, or the Description of their Manners
STC439518 Rope Maker, from The Hindus, or the Description of their Manners, Costumes and Ceremonies, c.1808-12 (coloured etching) by Solvyns

British women working in a rope factory at Chatham Naval dockyards during the second world war March 1941

In a workshop in the quiet, sleepy village of Hawes, set in the Yorkshire hills, Mr Outhwaite peacefully continues to make rope by hand as he did half a century ago

Relief depicting a shoemaker and a rope maker
Roman civilization, 2nd century A.D. Relief depicting a shoemaker and a rope maker

Goblin Tower, Chester
Goblin Tower, once called Pembertons Parlour, after a ropemaker whose works were once beneath the city walls at Chester, Cheshire, England

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