#Rope

[ropesbypatricia]

"And if your friends think that you should do it different

And if they think that you should do it the same

You’ve gotta just keep on pushing..."

Push the sky away

[mossy-vulpes]

Everything is hard and grey so I'm going to dress colorfully today and clean the house

[sluttimetm]

New tie im obsessed with

The tutorial is from The Dutchy, tbh all of there pictures, tutorials, and rope courses are amazing

[k3033p2]

[zegalba]

Chiharu Shiota: Dreaming Time (1999)

[texasshibari]

[wardengrill]

Rope (1948)

[4gifs]

[quotesfrommyreading]

In his 1956 book The Marlinspike Sailor, marine illustrator Hervey Garrett Smith wrote that rope is “probably the most remarkable product known to mankind.” On its own, a stray thread cannot accomplish much. But when several fibers are twisted into yarn, and yarn into strands, and strands into string or rope, a once feeble thing becomes both strong and flexible—a hybrid material of limitless possibility. A string can cut, choke, and trip; it can also link, bandage, and reel. String makes it possible to sew, to shoot an arrow, to strum a chord. It’s difficult to think of an aspect of human culture that is not laced through with some form of string or rope; it has helped us develop shelter, clothing, agriculture, weaponry, art, mathematics, and oral hygiene. Without string, our ancestors could not have domesticated horses and cattle or efficiently plowed the earth to grow crops. If not for rope, the great stone monuments of the world—Stonehenge, the Pyramids at Giza, the moai of Easter Island—would still be recumbent. In a fiberless world, the age of naval exploration would never have happened; early light bulbs would have lacked suitable filaments; the pendulum would never have inspired advances in physics and timekeeping; and there would be no Golden Gate Bridge, no tennis shoes, no Beethoven’s fifth symphony.

“Everybody knows about fire and the wheel, but string is one of the most powerful tools and really the most overlooked,” says Saskia Wolsak, an ethnobotanist at the University of British Columbia who recently began a PhD on the cultural history of string. “It’s relatively invisible until you start looking for it. Then you see it everywhere.”

 —   The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String

[luckypluckychair]

Rope | 1948 | USA

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Set decorator: Howard Bristol and Emile Kuri

[texasshibari]