Here is a wonderful short video by Classic Sailor of Des Pawson at his Museum of Knots and Sailors’ Ropework in Ipswich. Now in his seventies, Des is cataloging the contents of the museum for safekeeping curation at Chatham Historic Dockyard.
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Thank you SO much for including this — it is fascinating and the arts and skills of the sailor are fabulous. Utilitarian, beautiful, time consuming, traditional and all the rest.
The contents of the Museum are being moved to Chatham dockyard.
See – https://thedockyard.co.uk/new-collection-at-the-dockyard/
If you are able to visit the Chatham Historic Dockyard do visit the rope-walk and see and maybe partake in making some rope. Its a wonderful experience for both adults and kids.
There is also a wonderful ships bookshop run by volunteers of a historical society full of obscure second-hand books.
I love rope work and rigging. I could spend more than a day in his little museum looking at the tools and trying to figure out how the knot work was done.