Cordage Card: Learn How to Make Cordage with this Rope Maker Tool
Plastic Bottle Cordage Rope Maker Card Tool
The Grim Workshop Plastic Bottle Cordage Card is a compact rope maker designed to turn discarded plastic bottles into long, usable cordage.
It solves a real survival and preparedness problem: cordage runs out, but plastic waste is everywhere. This tool allows you to create continuous lengths of cord from common bottles, providing usable string, lashings, or binding material when traditional cordage is unavailable.
This rope maker is credit card sized but thicker than a standard card. It is designed for tins, containers, and kits rather than daily wallet carry when assembled.
→ Pairs naturally with fire and cutting tools from the Survival Cards Collection and compact kits in the Micro Tools Collection.
Why the Plastic Bottle Rope Maker Card Exists
Cordage is one of the most critical survival resources, and also one of the easiest to run out of.
This rope maker exists to turn trash into capability. Plastic bottles are widely available, lightweight, and consistent. When processed through this tool, they become long strands of usable cordage that can be wrapped, tied, or fused.
Because the cordage is heat sensitive, it can be lightly heated to shrink, tighten, and harden around objects. This allows secure binding with minimal knots and reduces slippage once set.
It is a layer of readiness that stays with you when bulk is not an option.
→ Learn more about cordage principles and alternatives in our Cordage Skill Guides.
Cordage Card Plastic Bottle Rope Maker Specs and Features
- One plastic bottle cordage rope maker card
Credit card sized footprint with increased thickness for durability
Designed to slice bottles into continuous cordage
Produces heat sensitive cordage that shrinks and stiffens when warmed
Allows binding with fewer knots or tying
Reusable and designed for repeated use
This tool creates cordage, not pre made rope.
→ Often carried alongside cutting and fire tools from the EDC Tools Collection.
How to Use The Cordage Maker
How the Cordage Card Fits into a Kit
This rope maker is designed for bags, pouches, or kits, not pocket or wallet carry.
When assembled, it fits cleanly into Altoids tin sized kits, survival tins, and compact containers. When disassembled, it can be carried flatter and even stored temporarily in a wallet, though its strength comes from being used assembled.
On its own, it provides the ability to create cordage on demand. When paired with a larger kit, it acts as a cordage replenishment tool, preserving more important cordage and turning waste into structure, lashings, repairs, or bindings.
Common placements include:
Altoids tin survival kits
Trapping Kits For improvising traps, snares, and other cordage based food procurement tools
Shelter Building Kits Dozens of feet of strong cordage per bottle for constructing shelter, and more
Fishing Kits use the cordage as is, or twisted into thinner line for fishing
→ Store with flat tools inside a Survival Kit Tin.
→ Pair with fire sources from the Fire Making Collection ito take advantage of heat shrink binding.
This tool does not replace paracord. It ensures you are never without some cordage.
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Cordage Card: Learn How to Make Cordage with this Rope Maker Tool
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