ropemaking

More seriously elsewhere in the newsletter is a photograph of GIHS member Malcolm Tucker trying in his hand at ropemaking in the coderie royale at La Rochelle.

Archive 2008-08-01 M 2008

More seriously elsewhere in the newsletter is a photograph of GIHS member Malcolm Tucker trying in his hand at ropemaking in the coderie royale at La Rochelle.

Naval dockyards walk round Deptford M 2008

The business of ropemaking was carried on by the eldest son, Arthur, born 1699, who died 1749, leaving the property and business to his youngest brother John, on condition he brought up his heir to ropemaking.

Shakespeare's Family 1885

The festival offered old-fashioned fun, as a blacksmith demonstrated items made for the home and a ropemaking session taught children of all ages how to construct one for durability.

Rockford Register Star Home RSS 2008

James, and a third brother, John, came here to work at ropemaking for their cousin, William Tilley, Sen.; that William, Jun., went to Newport,

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

Passing the large exhibit of machines for the working of fibres preliminary to the loom -- the carding, roving, spinning, reeling and warping -- and the allied but different machines which make wire-cloths of different meshes and size, we come to the ropemaking-machines for hemp and wire, which are shown principally in their products, the manufacture taking an amount of room and material which could hardly be expected to be efficiently shown in a crowded building where space is valuable.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various

Sauntering among the ropemaking, I am spun into a state of blissful indolence, wherein my rope of life seems to be so untwisted by the process as that I can see back to very early days indeed, when my bad dreams --- they were frightful, though my more mature understanding has never made out why --- were of an interminable sort of ropemaking, with long minute filaments for strands, which, when they were spun home together close to my eyes, occasioned screaming.

The Uncommercial Traveller 1861

Sauntering among the ropemaking, I am spun into a state of blissful indolence, wherein my rope of life seems to be so untwisted by the process as that I can see back to very early days indeed, when my bad dreams -- they were frightful, though my more mature understanding has never made out why -- were of an interminable sort of ropemaking, with long minute filaments for strands, which, when they were spun home together close to my eyes, occasioned screaming.

The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841

Since 1998, California's experience with medicinal marijuana has been "a long strange trip", stumbling through local business codes for zoning and transactions along with state and federal issues -- the state for not defining and sanctioning the cultivation of marijuana legally and the federal for sticking to its archaic policies adopted by Harry J Anzlinger back in the 1930s, which were fueled by Anzlinger's political aggrandizement and the petrochemical industry trying to take hemp and all the other fibre-based plants out of the ropemaking business. californicated1 wrote: Whatever you boys and girls do out there to my homeland, please don't follow the examples that California has implemented.

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