piles of coiled rope and a foggy sea

Notices where this attachment appears

1. Embed this notice
   wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-Nov-2024 05:16:51 JST wet forest moon folklorist

   in my profession (commercial fishing) we deal with rope a lot. it is called ‘line’ in the fishing world, and it’s what holds it all together. fisherfolk are very good at coiling it, running it through hydraulic booms, lashing boats to docks with it, and using a small metal tool to splice two ends together. in working with rope you’re always seeing how many different threads form strength, and I think that’s very much a concept we need to be chatting about today