Postby drawscore » Sun Jun 09, 2013 12:25 am
The smaller the diameter of the rope, the tighter it will tie. About the smallest you'd want to go, is 1/8th of an inch sash cord, used mainly in Venetian blinds. About that same size, is rawhide, which is available at sporting goods stores in re-stringing kits for baseball gloves, and in outdoor shops as boot laces.
Conversely, the larger the diameter, the easier it is to escape, simply because you can't tie it as tight as a smaller diameter rope, and you leave a lot of slack. Professional escape artists know this, and when audience members are invited to come on stage to tie him up, he will usually provide them with rope 3/8ths of an inch in diameter, or larger. To give him even more of an edge, the rope will be new, and it will be in one piece, usually 50 feet long.
The most common, and most widely used, is 1/4 inch cotton clothesline.
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