Making Cordage from Nettles
By woodlandstv
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Naturalist John Rhyder shows us the techniques to make cordage using nettles - from the initial preparation of the plant fibres through to the `twist and clamp` process ensuring the nettle `string` has the strength and flexibility required. http://www.woodcraftschool.co.uk An Adliberate film http://www.adliberate.co.uk for WoodlandsTV http://www.woodlands.co.uk/tv
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Cool, thanks! I guess since you went to the trouble of collecting them, you could go ahead and have cooked nettle leaves to eat when you were done 🙂Â
Very very googe !!! The most clear cordage tha I saw . Thanks a lot !!!
I bet this dude does not live in a city. He is apocalypse ready:)
Interesting,thank you,all are great videos
Only this, the best video about cordage … TKS
I yet haven't seen a video on youtube where they show how to finish the cordage!!! I assume simple knot at the end wouldn;t help!? Am I wrong?
Thanks for that, the technique I've been using was no way near as efficient!
about how long do you dry the fibers for before twisting it in to cord
greetings from Germany. Nettle was used to make cloth since along time ago, but between 1918 and 1950, the Germans tried to use nettle on a commercial scale. Fairly large production sites developed westwards of Berlin in the area of the "Havelländisches Luch". They also cultivated the "fibra" variety of the common nettle with a fiber content of up to 15% as opposed to 5%. Due to difficulties in processing the plants on larger scales, the nettle industry never really reached a competitive stage. There have been some efforts in the 1990s, but nothing really came of it.
The best demonstration I've seen yet.
archanth
December 8, 2014