In the rocking horse I needed a tale I Used the Circle Mesh then an Array with Curve to set my rope path, the ColorRamp is by far the best to for image texture I hope to make tutorial for creating ropes
There are a few good rope tutorials on YouTube that will help you get started Best of luck
You can click on the curve in the outliner then go in edit mold & untied the knot.
Don't feel bad it took me about 20 attempts before I got something that even resembles a rope. I found out by clicking Control A and resetting location rotation and scale then using an empty in The array modifier it to help with the Z rotation.... Never give up
I always find projects like that impressive (rope, chain, ect...)
I'm pretty new to Blender so I'm still trying to guess what tools/modifiers you used to make it ;)