The yarn used to be created on the site too and in a room just above the ropewalk raw fibres of hemp and flax were combed and spun. The rope made here has been used on the Cutty Sark and the HMS ...

The reasons of decay and means of preservation of ropes are succinctly dealt with; as also are the relative advantages of cotton and manilla hemp ropes when worked under different conditions.

Hemp seeds sailed on the Mayflower—the stalks were used for making cloth (including the Mayflower’s very sails), rope, paper, and clothing, among other things. George Washington was a hemp ...

The use of hemp as a material was once so routine that it pervaded the production of rope, ship sails, fabrics, paper and medicine. In fact, it was seen as such a necessary crop that under the ...