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A German ropemaker, around 1460-1480. The text, in an archaic dialect of German, reads: "I am a rogue and a blighter. I worked together flax and powder(?), and covered it with hemp. That is how I cheated people".
Flax was cheaper than hemp. The ropemaker cheated the people by using hemp for the outer layers of the rope, thus giving it an appearance of a higher quality hemp rope.
From: Nilson, A.: Studier i svenskt repslageri, Stockholm, 1961
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