William's job was to cut people's hair and make rope.
It was already used to make clothes, ropes, and an early form of paper.
We cut a blanket into strips and made rope out of that.
By the age of twelve, Joan had learned to make ropes and clothes.
Is it going to be immediately apparent we're making rope once we start?
I make rope; and now I've started planting cotton, too.
Which aren't long enough to make ropes, in case you hadn't noticed.
Here and there oily smoke made ropes across the sky.
"How do they make rope if the hemp tries to kill them?"
But the up top acts require rigging, and they were still learning how to make rope.