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Film and Photo Collections

Rope Working and Rigging Film

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Notes:

An ACE funded SHCG produced film which examines the different tools used to work rope. Filmed with expert Des Pawson at the Museum of Knots and Sailors' Ropework  in Ipswich it focusses on tools such as the pricker, marlinspike and fid and how these were used in particular in creating rigging.

Keywords:

rope sail pricker marlinspike rigging ship boat idfilm

SHIC codes:

,4.74

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