The story of rope

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The History and the Modern Development of Rope-Making.
Compiled and Published by Plymouth Cordage Company NORTH PLYMOUTH, MASS. WELLAND, ONTARIO 1916
Copyright 1916, by Plymouth Cordage Company 663-11-15-5-28500
The matter contained in this book originally appeared, in substantially the same form, as a series of articles in our monthly publication “Plymouth Products.” The story aimed to make better known an industry previously little understood and thereby to advance the cause of good rope.
First and last this “Story of Rope” has had many interested and responsive readers. Encouraged by the large numbers of requests for it which continually come to us, we are now led to publish it anew and with the hope that in its present improved form it will still further fulfill its original purpose.
Plymouth Cordage Company
In that building, long and low,
With its windows all a-row,
Like the port-holes of a hulk,
Human spiders spin and spin,