This rope-making device involves a set of three hand-powered rotating steel hooks set in a red maple frame. Each hook is attached to a line of sisal twine.

In this manufacturing process, these three lines extended over forty feet, and were attached to a weighted pedestal at the opposite end.

The three lines must be kept separate from one another as the hooks are turned. See the handheld separating device in the picture below.

As the hooks turn, the three lines become more and more tight, held at the end by the weighted pedestal, and finally begin to wind into rop at the end opposite the applied turn.

When the handheld separating device moves forward, the tightly-twisted lines rush together and bind into a braided rope.

Since this proces requires someone to turn the hooks, hold and maintain the separator's position, and supervise the slow movement foreward of the weighted pedestal, such a manufacturing process takes a team of three to four members.