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English: 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 flax discards, 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. |
| Date | between 1460 and 1480 |
| Source | Allan T. Nilson: Studier i svenskt repslageri, Stockholm, 1961 |
| Author | Anonymous |
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This work was published before January 1, 1899 and it is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 125 years or fewer since publication.
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