Wyedean - Making Royal Horse Artillery Horse Leads Using a Rope Walk

Robin Wright, Managing Director of Wyedean Weaving in Haworth, demonstrates the traditional method of making rope using a rope walk machine. In this example he makes a horse lead for the Royal Horse Artillery King's Troop.

[@jamesroberts2115]

I've always liked to listen to anyone who is adept, as this gent certainly is, in their chosen line of work.

[@user-nb9lu1dc2q]

How interesting.

[@Giesela0815]

Great video, thanks for uploading!

[@The.Chiefman]

I am wondering how much length you loose from the original 15 meters once the twist is placed in

[@susannahwalbank4908]

The shrinkage in length from the initial set up of strands of yarn, to the finished length of rope is between 25% and 35% depending on the rope thickness and its composition, for example wool ropes shrink up more than cotton ropes.

[@jorgealmaraz8588]

El arte mexicano de hacer riatas de fibra de maguey o lechuguilla

[@mikeyboy2154]

Very interesting. Approximately how old is the the ropewalk wheel? Presumably ships hawsers were made in a space as big as a factory?

[@wyedean-weaving]

We are not entirely sure how old the rope walk wheel is, our estimate would be about 100 years old as it was designed to be driven by an electric motor.
Ships hawsers were made with the same principle as we use but on much larger wheels and with a rope walk in much longer factories, often with a bogie for the operator to travel up and down to speed up the manufacturing process. We hope this was of interest. Thank you.

[@rosewhite---]

Save all the walking by using a beaming frame as used in cloth weaving?

[@joshschneider9766]

Th is operation is frozen in time to the late 1800s for historic authenticity reasons. There's modern rope making facilities that do so and way more.

[@rosewhite---]

Longest long room ropewalk is in Barton on Humber - just over the Humber Bridge.

[@christopherdean1326]

I heard it was the one in Chatham Dockyard in Kent. A quarter of a mile long according to it's website.

[@rosewhite---]

@@christopherdean1326 The Barton one I visited is also listed as 440 yards. Long brick building with dirt floor!

[@hareshengserviceworks2287]

I am wondering how much length you loose from the original 25 meters once the twist is placed in

[@wyedean-weaving]

The original 25 metres length of threads draws up by 25% as they are twisted together to form the rope, so you end up with about an 18 metres length of rope. I hope this helps. Thank you for your interest