Rope for a Coffee Table

Posted in Crafts and Hobbies, Home and Interiors | No Comments » | March 6th, 2017

Many thanks to Ray for sending through this image of a coffee table he made from on old cable drum and some of our 20mm sisal rope

Stairhead Barrier Ropes

Posted in * Customer Case Studies, Home and Interiors | No Comments » | December 1st, 2016

Many thanks for Howard for sending us this picture of his stairhead barrier rope project. The ropes are just intended as a visible barrier and we think they have come up really well. Howard supplied us with detailed measurements allowing us to fit the ropes to the brass brackets before sending them out. The items […]

Garden Swing Rope

Tags: bespoke ropes, garden rope, Ropesdirect, swing rope, synthetic hemp rope
Posted in Garden & Outdoors | No Comments » | September 16th, 2016

With many thanks to Anthony for sending through this image. For this project Anthony already had a seat he wanted to use and just wanted a pair of swing ropes but these had to hang from two existing eyelets in his frame. 20mm synthetic hemp was chosen as it is strong, durable, comfortable to grip […]

Rope Handrail on Spiral Staircase

Tags: rope handrail, yacht rope
Posted in * Customer Case Studies, Home and Interiors | No Comments » | September 6th, 2016

With many thanks to Elizabeth for supplying the pictures and below is a copy of the email she sent us after finishing the project; Hi, Some months ago you helped me with a project. I wanted to bind rope around the metal handrail on a spiral staircase and came to you for advice and supply […]

A Brief History of Rope

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Posted in Rope Knowledge | No Comments » | July 29th, 2016

Over the years, rope has played a vital part in helping to achieve some wonderful and memorable things. In this blog post, we run down some amazing (and some fun) things that couldn’t have been achieved without the use of rope. Building the pyramids of Giza – The building of the pyramids in Egypt […]

Bespoke Garden Swing Ropes

Tags: garden rope, swing rope, synthetic hemp rope
Posted in * Customer Case Studies, Garden & Outdoors | No Comments » | July 7th, 2016

Many thanks to David for the following pictures. We supplied him with some metal J Hooks (set into the top beam) and lengths of synthetic hemp rope with both soft splices and hard splices. He already had the seat and the end result looks really impressive.

How to Make a DIY Rope Playground

Posted in Garden & Outdoors, Rope Knowledge, Sports and Leisure | No Comments » | March 1st, 2016

c As far as kids’ playgrounds go, the trend definitely seems to head in the direction of rope-based games and props. Given the fast and easily-accessible technology we now have at our disposal, kids are a bit reluctant to go and play outside. They would much rather stay inside and spend […]

30mm Jute Rope used as carpet edging

Posted in Home and Interiors | No Comments » | January 15th, 2015

30mm Jute rope with whipped ends used as a border to hide carpet shrinkage

Unexpected Visitor to Ropes Direct

Posted in Uncategorised | No Comments » | September 17th, 2014

Sparrow Hawk flies in to Ropes Direct warehouse

PVC Coated Steel Wire Rope in Colours

Posted in Uncategorised | No Comments » | September 13th, 2014

We have a new supplier for our PVC Coated Galvanised Steel Wire Rope enabling us to add in red, black and yellow to our existing clear. The wire rope is coated in the UK and complies with all essential Health and safety requirements of the Machinery Directive. It is supplied on sturdy wooden reels in […]

Custom Rope for Wooden Swing

Posted in Garden & Outdoors | No Comments » | September 12th, 2014

Ropes Direct are able to make bespoke ropes for your own wooden swing seats as seen in this picture. For this particular project we used 12mm synthetic hemp rope with soft splices at all the ends and 8mm metal quick links to attach it to the eye bolts already on the seat. Not quite so […]

Jute Rope at Stonehenge

Tags: Jute Rope
Posted in * Customer Case Studies, Natural Products | No Comments » | August 27th, 2014

Here’s a photo taken of some of our 24mm and 36mm jute rope supplied to www.aivaf.com for use in an exhibition they created for Stonehenge. We did the hard work of splicing the ends and they had the easy job of lifting the stone into place