This is a soft cotton rope. Uday's rope is manufacturered within an industry in a country, India,
where quality control is basic/low. The length of rope I bought had a 0.5cm long split in it !...the
outer fabric was split... the core was beginning to bulge out.
This is Penguin's fault -
Penguin re-pack 25' lengths from 300'-500' spools they purchase from Uday. The folk at Penguin
missed this defect when they re-packaged the rope they sent to me.
Uday's rope is cheaper
because less material is made... the fabric is thinner. You 'trade off' quality for price. I use
Uday only as practice rope. I would never use it in performance.
Also, I am
learning/practising the Tabary routines and find the Uday rope is too light, too flimsy for the sort
of handling required for Tabary's routines.