Chain Stitching Rope for Storage

by Rope Fashions

Coiling rope for storage usually leaves something to be desired. Even coiled rope tends to tangle in your toybag, and if you grab the wrong end when you’re uncoiling it, it can quickly get hopelessly tangled up. It is very frustrating if you are halfway through tying someone up and you have to stand there for ten minutes untangling your rope before you can continue. The solution is to chainstitch your ropes for storage. This is how climbers store their ropes. It is basically the same stitch used to fasten the tops of potato bags and feed bags.

Step 1: To chainstitch a rope, put the two ends of the rope together and lay them across your right palm, pointing in the direction of your thumb.

Step 2: Wrap the long ends of the rope around the back of your hand, so they end up where they started.

Step 3: With two fingers of your other hand, reach up (from the finger side) under the ropes, grab the long ends, and pull it out to form a loop.

Step 4: Remove the loop from your hand, and pull the ends of the ropes moderately tight.

Step 5: Reach through the loop from the back and grab the long ends of the rope.

Step 6: Pull them through, forming a new loop.

Step 7: Reach through the new loop from the back and pull another loop through. Continue doing this till you are at the end of your rope.

Step 8: Take the end of the rope, tuck it through the last loop, and pull it tight.

Step 9: The final result looks like this. To use the rope, pull the end back out of the last loop. Pull on the end, and the loops will all fall apart, and you will again have a straight piece of rope.