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The Enginers Club of Dayton Foundation

Ropemaking Videos on the Web (Top)

Hearts & Stars - H&A 1940’s

Fiber for Rope and Twine - Cordage Institute

Repslageri 1934

Discovery News: World’s Oldest Ropes Found

Chatham Ropewalk

How to Make a Rope

Qeswachaka, Inka Bridge

How to Make Rope - Rotterdam

Traditional Ropemaking

Ropewalk Print References (Top)

"Bibliography." A Bibliography of Cordage and Cordage Making. The Cordage Institute. 14 Dec 2008 http://ropecord.com/cordage/biblio/default2n.html

Edwards, Ph.D., Bradley C., and Eric A. Westling. The Space Elevator. Houston, TX: BC Edwards, 2002, 2003.

Evans, Sterling. Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/2007/evans.htm

Forward, Robert L., and Robert P. Hoyt. "Space Tethers." Scientific American February, 1999: 86-87.

Hagenbuch, Bill. "The Story of Rope." Ropecord News Spring 2006: 1-2. (PDF)

Kissell, Mary Lois. Yarn and Cloth Making: An Economic Study. New York: MacMillan, 1918.

Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Ropemakers of Plymouth. 1950. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950.

Plymouth Cordage Company, The Story of Rope. Plymouth, Mass.: 1916.

Robinson, BB, and FL Johnson. "Abaca: A Cordage Fiber." USDA Agric Monograph 21(1953)

Sanctuary, Anthony. Rope, Twine and Net Making. Bucks, UK: Shire Publications Ltd, 1980

Tyson, William, Rope: A History of the Hard Fibre Cordage Industry in the United Kingdom. London: Wheatland Journals Ltd., 1966.

Ropemaking For Teachers

Ropemaking, Knots and Cordage

Ropemaking History

Ropemaking Videos on the Web

Ropewalk Print References

Space Elevator

Sites Linking to Ropewalk

Ropewalk Associates

History Films of Interest

Ropemaking for Teachers (Top)

Twisted Strands - Simple Machines and Ropemaking in the Charlestown Navy Yard (PDF)

Ropewalk for Sail Training (PDF)

Lesson Plan for Ropemaking

Ropemaking with a Spinner (PDF)

Ropemaking Grades 5-12 (PDF)

Ropemaking, Knots, and Cordage (Top)

Yahoo Groups Ropemaking

Pineapple Knot Forum

Jack Tar Sailor’s Knots and Ropework

Native American Cordage

Cordage Institute Links

Knots on the Web

Animated Knots by Grog

Yahoo groups Knot Tyers

International Guild of Knot Tyers

IGKT-NAB

"Spinning a New Strategy." Time 16 APR 2009

Spinning Yarns, Time Photogallery

Ropemaking History (Top)

H.W. Longfellow - The Ropewalk

Footrope Knots, Ipswich, England

Charlestown Navy Yard Ropewalk at Boston National Historical Park

Ropery at Chatham Dockyard

Howell Farm - Story of the Binder

Bridport Museum

Barton Ropery Education Packs

Talllship Gazela

How the Inca Leapt Canyons - Inca Rope Bridges

Plymouth Cordage Museum

Ancient Egypt Rope Making

Coils of Ancient Egyptian Rope Found in Cave

de Lijndraaier

Sindifibras - History of Brazilian Sisal

A History and Evolution of Spinning

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Award-winning original score by composer Bruce Dalzell.

Ropewalk wins

Silver Medal

of Excellence for Best Impact of Music in a Documentary Film at the 2009 Park City Film Music Festival

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