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Babe's Ply-Split Electric Rope Machine - Electric Spindle
 First spin singles, you spin off the knitting needle point until you have the twist on the yarn you want and then put it on the bobbin. When you have 4 bobbins full put it on Babe's Lazy Kate. Holding the 4 plies between your fingers you are ready to make your rope. You can put as much twist you want into the rope even over twist so it looks like Babe's twisted tail. To spin the singles you put the motor group on the right side of the base and to ply to put it on the left side. The base has Babe's Sure Foot on the corners to hold it in place. Very simple but works. The information below is from the customer I made this rope machine for: Ply-split weaving covers a whole bunch of things. For rugs, I am
using a very heavy 2 ply. For some sculptures, I use 3. I can get
both patterns out of it and pull it up for roundness. For the
usual camel harnesses and rugs for the camels, a 4-ply solid color or a 4-ply 2
color cord can be used. If you are really interested your library might
have a book by Peter Collingwood entitled "The Techniques of Ply-split
braiding: written in 1998- expensive but great pictures even the the
patterns are difficult.
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