How to make rope

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Rope Making: Rope making has been around for a very long time. While there are more complicated ways to go about it, this set up is one of the simpler ways. All you really need is a few coat hangers and a couple scraps of wood. The twine I’m using measures abou…

Knowing how to make DIY rope can be immensely helpful around the homestead. Follow our step-by-step guide and start making your own today!

Rope Ladder: We do geocaching with family and friends and sometimes it's really hard to get someone somewhere high or low and rope ladder comes quite handy. This instructable is about our first one made only from two ropes as we had plenty of ropes around ;) Sa…

How to make a rope ladder for emergency situations.

While living aboard our sailboat, Nine of Cups, we were constantly replacing worn and chafed halyards and dock lines. Rather than throw the old lines away, I...

To make rope from trash bags, you have to cut the bag into strips, twist up those strips, then coil two strips together in the opposite direction.

How to Weave a Basket with Wool Rope I just love how easy they are to make and you only need one material, wool rope! Once you know the basics of making a woven rope basket, the possibilities are pretty much endless. You can play with different basket forms and shapes, changing colors, mixing up materials, adding fun elements like tassels or pom-poms, etc. With step-by-step pictures, you'll be making beautiful baskets in no time!!

Make Rope Out of Dead Plants -- With No Tools: I will teach you to make extremely strong rope out of common, dead plants with no need for tools. First, I'll walk you through the process of isolating some high-quality fiber from dead plants. (I demonstrate with dogbane, but milkweed is a fine sub…

The secret of twisting rope so it will hold together is to twist each individual group of fibers one way, while twisting several sets of fibers together the other way. The two opposite twists work against each other, preventing each from untwisting. The result is a rope that is stronger than the individual fibers.