CORDAGE: THE BASICS
Jun 07, 2019
2 minutes
ordage is changing so rapidly that it is easy to get tangled up in the various types available these days. Until as late as the 1960s, natural materials such as hemp, manila, sisal and coir were still very much in use, spun together from relatively short pieces, hence the term “spun yarn”. The first synthetic lines appeared soon after the war, and everyone will remember the wiry three-strand
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