Bibliography: Ropemaking

Primary Works

Wallerius, N.: En kårt berättelse, om rep och tråssars styrka eller sammanhängande kraft, som på almänt sätt ihopwridas.
Kongl. Swenska Wetenskapsacademiens handlingar 1739.
Polhem, C.: Tankar, til ytterligare styrkande af Wallerii utgifne Rån om Rep.
Kongl. Swenska Wetenskapsacademiens handlingar 1739.
Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis: Traité de la fabrique des manoeuvres pour les vaisseaux ou l'Art de la Corderie perfectionnée.
Imprimerie royal, Paris, 1747. 4to, xl, 464 pp, 7 fold. plates. With 13 vignettes as chapter headings. Second edition 1769.
Psilanderschiöld, Nils: Anmärkningar vid Repslageriet.
KVAH Vol. XXIX, Stockholm, 1768. pp. 120-125
Bang, J.: Forsøg til Reebslageriets Forbedring.
København,1769.
Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis: Traité de la fabrique des manoeuvres pour les vaisseaux; ou, L'Art de la Corderie perfectionnée. Seconde edition, dans laquelle on a ajouté ce qui regarde les cordages goudronnés.
Desaint, Paris, 1769 (2nd). 4to, xxxvi, 554 pp, 13 fold. plates. First edition 1747.
An Act for more effectually preventing deceits and frauds in the manufacturing of cordage for shipping, and to prevent the illicit importation of foreign-made cordage.
Charles Eyre & William Strahan, London, 1785. 4to, pp 1319-1326.
Russel, R.: The rope-makers guide; or, a Complete Key to the art of Rope-Making …; to which is added … the weights … and sizes of merchants cables and cordage in general …
Printed for the Author, London, 1804. +4to, 45 pp.
Grimshaw & Webster: The Ship-Owner's Guide in Fitting out of Ships with Cordage: or, a Set of Tables … most Approved Sizes of … ropes … Merchants Ships … Weight and Price.
Sunderland, 1806. 8vo. Another edition 1810
anon.: The Ship-Owner's Guide in the Fitting Out of Ships with Cordage; or, a Set of Tables, of the Most approved Sizes of the Principal Ropes used in Merchant-Ships, of from 80 Tons to 500 Tons Register Admeasurement, with the Proportion of their Weight and Price when made in the common Way - and when made by Grimshaw, Webster and Co's. Patent Machinery, to which are added certificatates and observations, proving in the most satisfactory Manner, the great advantage to be derived by the owners of Ships, Colliers and Mines in general, from the Superiority in Strength, Pliancy and Duration of Grimshaw, Webster and Co's. Patent Machine-Laid Cordage#, Second edition.
Printed by T. Reed, Sunderland, 1810 (2nd). 12mo, 17.5x8 cm, vi, 54 pp. First edition 1806.
anon.: Observations on the manufacture of a New Rope; Submitted to the Honourable Comissioners of His Majesty's Navy.
W. Glindon, London, 1829. 8vo, 25 pp.
Tables of the size, length, number of yarns and weight of the several sorts of cordage made in Her Majesty's dock-yards.
W. Clowes, London, 1848. 4to, 46 pp.
Cotton, William: A brief memoir of the late Captn Joseph Huddart, FRS and an account of his inventions in the manufacture of cordage, as contained in a letter to James Walker ...
School-Press, London, 1855. 8vo, 41 pp.
Valeur, Cordt Holtermann: Haandbog for Rebslagere. Udarbeidet for Marinens Haandvaerkere.
C.C. Werner & Co, Christiania, 1858. 8vo, 62 pp, 3 plates.
Chapman, Robert: A Treatise on Rope-Making as Practised in Private and Public Ropeyards, with a Description of the Manufacture, Rules, Tables of Weights, etc …
London, 1857. 8vo. Other editions 1858, 1868 and 1869.
Chapman, Robert: A Treatise on Rope-Making as Practised in Private and Public Ropeyards, with a Description of the Manufacture, Rules, Tables of Weights, etc …
E. and F.N. Spon, London, 1858. 12mo, 16.5 cm, (2), 98, ii pp, incl. tables. A reissue. Other editions 1857, 1868 and 1869.
Chapman, Robert: A Treatise on Ropemaking, as Practised in Private and Public Ropeyards, with a Description of the Manufacture, Rules, Tables of Weights, etc., Adapted to the Trade, Shipping, Mining, Railways, Builders, &c. Revised Edition.
Spon, London, 1868. 8vo, 16.5 cm, 96 pp, tables. Other editions 1857, 1858, and 1869.
Chapman, Robert: A Treatise on Ropemaking, as Practised in Private and Public Ropeyards, with a Description of the Manufacture, Rules, Tables of Weights, etc., … Revised Edition.
H.C. Baird, Philadelpia, 1868. 96 pp, tables, diagrs. Other editions 1857, 1858, and 1868.
Tables showing the size, length ... and description of hemp etc, of which the several sorts of cordage are made in Her Majesty's dockyards.
HMSO, London, 1874. 4to, 72 pp.

Secondary Works

N.V. Lankhorst touwfabrieken Sneek.
1962. 16×24 cm, 28 pp, ill.
N.V. Lijnbaan Straat Sunda touwfabrieken Alblasserdam (Holland).
Rotterdam, [c1928]. 16 pp, ill.
Scheme of prices for ropemakers' work in HM dockyards at home.
Shipbuilding Trade Joint Council. Piecework Committee, np, 1947. 8vo, 11 pp.
Dickinson, H.W.: A condensed history of ropemaking.
London, 1943.
Forestier-Walker, E.R. A history of the wire rope industry of Great Britain.
Federation of Wire Rope Manufacturers of Great Britain, Sheffield, 1952. 8vo, 163 pp, ill.
Hoffmann, M.: Om dugmagere og tøymagere og redskapene deres.
By og bygd 1943.
Jansson, A.: Repslageri såsom hantverke.
Morison, Samuel Eliot: The Ropemakers of Plymouth. A History of the Plymouth Cordage Company 1824-1949.
Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1950. 8vo, fp, 177 pp, ill., 8 plates.
Nilson, Allan: Studier i svenskt repslageri.
Nordiska museets handlingar: 55, Stockholm, 1961. 4to, 245 pp, ill. Zusammenfassung: Schwedische Seileri. Ethnologische Studien.
Nisbeth, Åke: Repslagarbanan i Karlskrona.
Ale 1967:1. p 26.
Woodhouse, T. & Kilgour, P.: Cordage and cordage hemp and fibres.
Pitman, London, 1919. 8vo, 113 pp.
The Excelsior Wire Rope Company. Wire drawing mills and wire rope works catalogue.
Excelsior Wire Rope Co., np, [c1920]. 4to, 103 pp, ill.
Lane, Frederic C.: The rope factory and hemp trade of Venice in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
J. Econ. Bus. Hist., Vol. 4, No. 4, 1932. pp 830-847.

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