Ireth
Myth Weaver
I've been toying with an idea for my Hunchback of Notre Dame adaptation. Without going into too much spoiler-filled plot detail (though I will if people need it), it involves the female lead character (the bellringer) using yarn to make a long rope, which she uses to climb down the side of the church from the belltower. She has lots of yarn because she spends much of her spare time in the belltower weaving tapestries, and she has a LOT of spare time to fill. The rope is a secret, which she hides from the villain (her captor) so that one day she can escape from him.
Logic says that she should use whole skeins of yarn for this, but I was thinking she might be forced to mostly use leftover scraps so as not to end up using unusually large amounts of wool per day, which would make the villain suspicious and might prompt him to stop letting her weave altogether if he thought she was wasting it. She'd gather the scraps over a period of up to six years (haven't quite decided how long she's been shut in the tower yet), and knot them together to make longer strands, which she'd then braid or twist into a very long rope. She'd likely use some whole skeins to reinforce the scraps, but too many would look suspicious.
So, to the point: How much yarn would it take to make a suitable rope, and would that rope hold up to stress if it were made mostly out of knotted scraps rather than long strands?
Logic says that she should use whole skeins of yarn for this, but I was thinking she might be forced to mostly use leftover scraps so as not to end up using unusually large amounts of wool per day, which would make the villain suspicious and might prompt him to stop letting her weave altogether if he thought she was wasting it. She'd gather the scraps over a period of up to six years (haven't quite decided how long she's been shut in the tower yet), and knot them together to make longer strands, which she'd then braid or twist into a very long rope. She'd likely use some whole skeins to reinforce the scraps, but too many would look suspicious.
So, to the point: How much yarn would it take to make a suitable rope, and would that rope hold up to stress if it were made mostly out of knotted scraps rather than long strands?