So Conard's colleague Veerle Rots at the University of Liège in Belgium tried using a replica to make rope from a variety of materials, including sinew from deer, flax, hemp, cattail, linden ...
They use traditional methods, and 150-year-old equipment to make 500,000 pounds of ... the ropewalk raw fibres of hemp and flax were combed and spun. The rope made here has been used on the ...