In ancient Egypt rope stretchers were surveyors who measured property demarcations and foundations using knotted cords which they stretched in order to take the sag out of the rope.

* rope stretchers

* proportions " The knowledge of pleasing proportions of the rope stretchers was incorporated by the Greeks "

Knotted cords were used by rope stretchers, royal surveyors who measured out the sides of fields ( Egyptian 3ht ).

The rope stretchers stretched the rope in order to take the sag out it and keep the measures uniform.

* Egyptian rope stretchers using knotted cord for survey

In ancient times the Maldives were renowned for cowries, coir rope, dried tuna fish ( Maldive Fish ), ambergris ( Maavaharu ) and Coco de mer ( Tavakkaashi ).

The bowline ( or ) is an ancient and simple knot used to form a fixed loop at the end of a rope.

The reef knot or square knot is an ancient and simple binding knot used to secure a rope or line around an object.

In ancient Egypt, when the Nile River overflowed its banks and washed out farm boundaries, boundaries were re-established by a rope stretcher, or surveyor, through the application of simple geometry.

According to ancient historians, because there was no precedent for the capital punishment of a virgin, Junilla was raped before her execution, with the rope around her neck.

This ancient foot support consisted of a looped rope for the big toe which was at the bottom of a saddle made of fibre or leather.

The ancient Egyptians were probably the first civilization to develop special tools to make rope.

The barrier, consisting of a silken rope ( in place of the ancient bar ) was then removed and the detachment would march forward to meet the Lord Mayor and City Sheriffs, where the proclamation would be read.

A disadvantage of this lock is that a vandal can push the rope into the hole — an ancient equivalent of putting glue into a lock.

This was a weapon from ancient times, which allows the user to throw the dart out at a long range target and use the rope to pull it back.

Baudhayana ( c. 8th century BCE ) composed the Baudhayana Sulba Sutra, the best-known Sulba Sutra, which contains examples of simple Pythagorean triples, such as:,,,, and as well as a statement of the Pythagorean theorem for the sides of a square: " The rope which is stretched across the diagonal of a square produces an area double the size of the original square.

" It also contains the general statement of the Pythagorean theorem ( for the sides of a rectangle ): " The rope stretched along the length of the diagonal of a rectangle makes an area which the vertical and horizontal sides make together.

Braided cords are used in preference to twisted rope because a braid resists twisting when stretched.

When rubber is stretched, the " loose pieces of rope " are taut and thus no longer able to oscillate.

It too stretched the limbs of the accused, this time however the victim's feet were strapped to the ground and their arms were tied behind their back before a rope was tied to their hands and lifted upwards.

Snoqualm had ordered that a rope of cedar bark be stretched between the earth and the sky.

It normally consists of one or more cloth panels, or a woven network of twine or thin rope stretched with ropes between two firm anchor points such as trees or posts.

* Klong Yao is the Thai " long drum " which is shaped like an enlongated or stretched goblet and rope tuned.

The horse and rider wait in a box next to the chute that has a spring-loaded rope, known as the barrier, stretched in front.

At around 4 am, the rope is stretched by Our Lady's guards and, within minutes, is held by the " vowers ", who have long looked forward to an incredible back-and-forth choreography, like human waves, sparking the solidarity from the bystanders, who try to quench the thirst of those carrying the rope by offering them water.

A clothes line or washing line is any type of rope, cord, or twine that has been stretched between two points ( e. g. two sticks ), outside or indoors, above the level of the ground.

Interestingly, Baudhāyana used a rope as an example in the above shloka which can be translated as – A rope stretched along the length of the diagonal produces an area which the vertical and horizontal sides make together.

: A rope stretched along the length of the diagonal produces an area which the vertical and horizontal sides make together.

At Te Aroha, there was a wire rope stretched across the river which originally had a Māori canoe tied to it on which people could pull themselves across and was later replaced by a punt with a crank and for two shillings people could crank themselves across.

In 1861, Blondin first appeared in London, at the Crystal Palace, turning somersaults on stilts on a rope stretched across the central transept, 70 feet ( 20 m ) from the ground.

The picture has been crawling and stumbling along and then it climbs a high wire and walks it and keeps walking it until we're almost dizzy from admiration. The tight rope is rarely stretched so high in movies ..."

Prior to the invention of tension rods drum skins were attached and tuned by rope systems such as that used on the Djembe or pegs and ropes such as that used on Ewe Drums, a system rarely used today, although sometimes seen on regimental marching band snare drums.

" The diagonal rope () of an oblong ( rectangle ) produces both which the flank ( pārśvamāni ) and the horizontal () < ropes > produce separately.

During the Tang dynasty, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang promoted large-scale tug of war games, using ropes of up to 167 meters with shorter ropes attached and more than 500 people on each end of the rope.

Historically, the prayer rope would typically have 100 knots, although prayer ropes with 50 or 33 knots can also be found in use today.

The structure of the bowline is identical to that of the sheet bend, except the bowline forms a loop in one rope and the sheet bend joins two ropes.

Tied in the bight, it can be made in a rope without access to either of the ends ; this is a distinct advantage when working with long climbing ropes.

A rope tornado in its dissipating stage, Tecumseh, Oklahoma. Tornadoes in the dissipating stage can resemble narrow tubes or ropes, and often curl or twist into complex shapes.

Apart from ropes, twines, and general cordage, sisal is used in low-cost and specialty paper, dartboards, buffing cloth, filters, geotextiles, mattresses, carpets, handicrafts, wire rope cores, and Macramé.

This knot is tied starting with a loose figure eight knot on one rope ( the larger-diameter one if unequal ), and threading of the other rope's running end through the first figure eight, starting at the first figure-eight's running end and paralleling the path of the first rope through the figure eight until the second's ropes running end lies parallel against first's standing end.

It is suitable for both stranded and braided ropes, lines and cables ( 3-strand rope, 4-strand cable and 8-strand multiplait as well as concentric and braided constructions ).

Splicing can be used to end a rope, to join two ropes together, or to join one rope to itself to form an eye or loop.

A back splice can be applied to the end of any rope, especially stranded ropes.

Dravot, wearing his crown, stood on a rope bridge over a gorge while the Kafirs cut the ropes and fell to his death.

The fibers of the bark can be twisted into rope and the ropes are manufactured for bowstrings and hammocks.

* A shackle is a piece of metal to attach two ropes, or a block to a rope, or a sail to a rope.

The second category was effected with one or more “ main ropes ” or “ honnawa ” which like the torinawa could be any one of many different lengths, but was a proper hemp rope, possibly six or more millimeters in diameter and as much as eighty feet long — which was used to provide a more secure, long-term binding than is possible with the torinawa for transportation to a place of incarceration, restraint at legal proceedings, and — in the case of particularly severe crimes — for the public display of the prisoner prior to execution by such methods as beheading, crucifixion ( i. e., the prisoner was displayed tied to a cross before spears were driven through the body ), or, in arson convictions, death by fire.

An aerial tramway, cable car, ropeway ( Japanese ) or aerial tram is a type of aerial lift which uses one or two stationary ropes for support while a third moving rope provides propulsion.

The name " Kamiah " is Nez Perce for " many rope litters ," as Nez Perce manufactured " Kamia " ropes in the area to fish steelhead.

Those who were not able to touch the cross tied ropes on the cross, held the rope in their hands and made the oath.

* Mussels are cultivated extensively in New Zealand, where the most common method is to attach mussels to ropes which are hung from a rope back-bone supported by large plastic floats.

This rope is referred to as " Asanawa " usually translated as " hemp rope " the word ' asa ' as hemp and ' nawa ' as rope, however this is using the more generic form of the work referring to a range of natural fibre ropes rather than those pertaining to a particular plant.