Abstract: A cable is disclosed having a wire rope jacket and a synthetic compressible core of yarn filaments with a specific tensile strength greater than the members of the jacket and which serve as a reinforcing component for the jacket to provide a cable construction suited for service conditions requiring a strength greater than a conventional steel cable. A method of making cable is set forth which lends itself to economical and dependable manufacture wherein a yarn core is drawn through a closing die in a substantially zero twist parallel arrangement and drawing a plurality of wires through the die in timed relation to passage of the core to be helically laid about the core to form a twisted wire rope jacket.