Ropemaking Device
Description
Male demonstrating a cast-iron ropemaking device, Low Bells Shielon the River Tweed, near West Ord (Northumberland) (as pictured in LAVC/PHO/P1227). The device has three hand-forged hooks, and was used for making cable-laid rope from old (salmon) fishing nets. In this photograph, lengths of net are attached to each of the hooks and twisted. Mounted on Photo File card. With typed note. Originally held in Photo File: Ropemaking.
Metadata
| Identifier | bqgd1d8y |
| IRN | 412170 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/PHO/P1230 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/bqgd1d8y |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Ropemaking: Photocards |
| Creator(s) | Sanderson, Stewart |
| Date | Summer 1958 |
| Size and Medium | 1 mounted photographic print. |