Ropes are made from vegetable fibres each of which is only between two and four feet long, and the first process is to comb these fibres out in a long, even ribbon, as shown in an exaggerated form in fig. 6-1.
Iintsontelo zenziwa ngeentsinga zemifuno kwaye inye iba nobude obuzinyawo ezimbini nezine, kwaye inkqubo yokuqala kukukama ezi ntsinga zoluleke, nkqu neribhoni, nanjengokuba kuboniswa ngokubaxekileyo kwisazobe 6-1.