Creative Ropecraft

By Stuart E. Grainger

Book Overview

Macram? is a modern, simplified derivation of an old and far more varied craft. This book rescues and instructs in that nearly lost art. All through the age of sail, men who could neither read nor write whiled away the off-watch hours developing decorative skills from their knowledge of knots, splices, plaits, sennits, and of the twine and cordage of their day.

They modified the severely practical techniques used in working and maintaining their ships' gear into countless variations with which they decorated nearly everything in their lives--knives, telescopes, needle cases, work baskets, sea chests, and hundred of other items.

Creative Ropecraft presents first all the standard, practical knots and splices in easy-to-follow drawings and then proceeds to give step-by-step instructions in the variations that are to decorative ropecraft what the individual stitches are to needlecraft. Finally, it offers details of various specific projects, including mats, belts, rope-edged trays, lanyards, hammocks netting for planters, and others.

This is a unique reference and guide for the sailor and the home craftsman.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393336522
• ISBN13: 9780393336528
• Release Date: March 1977
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Rope a dope

This is a excellent book and gives the beginner some pretty high goals to reach. I wish there were a little more detail showing actual step by step action required for each level of completion. However a good imagination does help in the learning process. Maybe with time and practice this old dope may learn to get off the ropes. Wish me luck. I liked this book and recommend it to anyone who thinks they can't be creative. Or if you just like the "challenge" then this is the "test". Stanley Alves.

ropecraft

Great instuctional book. Fairly easy reading and the best Illustrations since The Ashley book of Knots. The only downside is the "Practical Projects" section. Fairly simple stuff.