Southern Ropes (Pty) Ltd | 2 Beach Rd, Woodstock, Woodstock, 7925, Western Cape

The Southern Ropes was the first company to work with ropes manufacturing and distributing it across the country. The art of rope making was one of the secret guilds of the Middle Ages. So successful were they in keeping their secrets that even today there is little written about the craft. Some rope making techniques in order of complexity The beginning of rope making is lost in prehistory, but there are evidences of rope being made as far back as 17,000 BC These early ropes were twisted by hand or braided. The earliest indication of any type of mechanical advantage in making rope comes from early Egyptian evidence relating to the craft. today everyone uses our ropes and they do not break easily they take years.