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A rope forming machine in which consecutively installed between a reel holding a core of fibrous material and a rotor circumferencially mounting a plurality of wire reels for holding the outer strands of the rope is a spring forming mechanism for forming wire into a cylindrical spring which is used to surround the core brought off the core-holding reel and a device for determining the extent of tensioning of the cylindrical spring with the core enclosed therein after emerging from the spring forming mechanism. The rotational speed of the rotor and a drawing-off drum for drawing off the finished rope formed by twisting the strand around the formed cylindrical spring are controlled, to correlate the rate or rope twisting and that of cylindrical spring forming.