Rope and Rope-Making
Description
A study which records the development and place in society of rope making. Its ten chapters provide a history of rope making, descriptions of machinery and types of rope, rope manufacture (including images from trade promotional literature), case studies of two rope-makers (the first, working in the Peak Cavern in Castleton in Derbyshire, the other working in Stockton-on-Tees), descriptions of rope in use, hay rope-making on the Lleyn Peninsula, North-West Wales, the reminiscences of people working in, or connected with, the trade (many taken from a book on the history of the Gourock Ropework Company), rope in language (phrases, proverbs and sayings) and a glossary of trade terms.
Metadata
| Identifier | yc28hdp5 |
| IRN | 410065 |
| Class Mark | LAVC/SRP/2/029 |
| Level | File |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/yc28hdp5 |
| Collection(s) | Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture |
| Category | Archive |
| Parent Record | Undergraduate Dissertations |
| Creator(s) | McNay, Ian |
| Date | 1966 |
| Size and Medium | 61 unbound typed leaves, [15]; 9 b/w photographs. |