A Useful Skill

Learning how to make your own rope probably probably won’t change your life much. Our modern day lives aren’t very rope intensive. I needed a rope to prevent something from blowing away today. Most rope that is available in stores these days is made from nylon. Rather than go up the street to by a few meters of nylon rope, I just made my own rope out of a shirt that was in our rag box. If you Google ‘how to make rope’ you will find that it is a serious obsession for some people. They would probably say that my little twisted length of rags is not a rope. It did serve my purpose. I used to make ropes from discarded green coffee bags. If you live near a small roaster you might be able to score some jute or sisal bags. They have a lot of different uses. I gave many of them away to a man who ripped them to shreds and used them in the smoke maker that he needed for his beekeeping enterprise.