Cordage and cordage hemp and fibres

Records of civilization are incapable of furnishing the era when the equivalent of strands or cords were first used, singly or collectively, for the purpose of holding two or mo...

Herodotus records garments made from hemp by the Thracians, and to the present day hemp is largely cultivated in the vicinity of the lands occupied by the descendants of this an...

The definition of cordage usually takes the form of “a quantity of cords or ropes as the rigging of a ship, etc.,” but in commerce the word has a more elastic meaning, and, in g...

Cordage fibres which are used at the present time are naturally of greater variety than those which were utilized for similar purposes in the early periods of history, for recor...

The botanical or scientific name for hemp is _Cannabis Sativa_, order, _Moraceoe_, sub-order, _Cannaboidae_. The plant grows wild in Central Asia, but is cultivated in many trop...

The retting operation is that process which converts the constituents of the stems into that condition which will enable the bast layer, see Fig. 7, to be separated easily from...

The different types of hard fibres for cordage are mentioned in Chapter III, page 17, and, although there are certain features which are more or less common to all, there are di...

Since there is such a great variety of ropes, cords and twines, not only in regard to diameters, but also in regard to the different fibres used in the manufacture of these good...

The method of producing yarns from the hard fibres involves the use of quite different machines in the preparatory processes; this departure is necessary on account of the natur...

There are many instances in which yarns made by the foregoing operations are incorporated in twines, cords and ropes, while, on the other hand, special types of machinery are ut...

A considerable quantity of the smaller-sized ropes are now made on what are termed “house machines.” These machines perform the same function as those in the rope-walk but they...

It is essential in modern times that goods which are placed on the market should be as attractive as it is possible to make them, and cordage forms no exception to this rule. Th...