Stinging Nettle Friendship Bracelet Challenge
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- Опубликовано: 1 июл 2024
- It's time for the annual Nettles for Textiles challenge!
This year we invite you to make a bracelet out of nettle fibre and share a picture of it using #nettlefriends to the Nettles for Textiles group
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If you are new to processing nettles for fibre, you'll find lots of ideas on my playlists, or on the Facebook group above.
Happy hedge-bothering!
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Just discovered your channel a few weeks ago, and a major interest has been sparked. We homeschool, and our 4 1/2 yr old has also enjoyed learning about where some fabric ect can come from with watching your videos with us, I feel this is a brilliant introduction to natural fibers for us to work on together! He always asks if I'm "watching nettles" when he sees me looking. He can't wait to try hedge bothering with me!
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Thank You Sally,Beautiful!
There is a lot of iron , a lot of calcium , a lot of protein , a lot of vitamins in the nettles.
I'm learning so much from your channel, im so happy
Thank you
happily RUclips just recommend your channel. Fascinating video. Thank you.
What a lovely idea Sally, thank you. Hope all is well.
All good here, thank you!
Ooh I meant to give a nettle fibre project a try this summer and this seems a fair bit more managable than a whole basket. Great Idea!
I have just discovered this channel. I can't wait to go back through to see all the other stuff you have done. Thank you.
This is a lovely, timely idea. Looking forward to seeing what people make.
What a lovely challenge! Here in the south of Norway I’ve been able to make some very thin threads out of the nettles I’ve found. Will post pictures when I’ve made my bracelet ❤️
A comment on one of Atomic Shrimp's videos pointed me your way (Random stuff- goat's beard, rabbit, williams). I hope more friends come along with me.
I made a bracelet from nettles after watching your tutorial! I'm now working on a burdock & bramble basket also following your videos and it's going well so far. Thanks for all your videos, you're a good teacher!
I read in one of my herb books that the German army used nettles to make cloth for their uniforms. Not sure which war...fantastic channel. Glad I found it
We can use the nettles. The nettle is edible. We can make clothes with nettles.
I don’t have nettles in Fairbanks, Alaska - that I know of, so I am going to choose another local fiber.
Fireweed has nice reddish brown fiber!
@@jennykoczur9339 great idea, thanks.
I tried to make nettle cord last year, I made one bit, no longer than a foot. I am going to try again, so thanks for letting us all know they're nearly ready. I'll check later! I really do hope to get better, thanks Sally!
Our nettles here a few hundred miles north are a bit behind you (our weather has not been nearly as spectacular), but even if I am too late, I’m gonna have a go at this. We don’t have many hedges here in the middle of the city but we do have plenty of wastelands-between motorways with loads of nettles! Your videos are such a pleasure!
I have a nettle patch ready to harvest and will try and do one tomorrow 🌿💚
Beautiful plants! They can be used for so much, anything from basket weaving or making thread to however thick a cordage you want to make also adding into teas, soups and stews etc. you just have to admire them. Definitely one of my favourite plants.
Lovely, I will definitelly take part in this Challenge.
Oh, I made a friendship bracelet with a kit I bought from you years ago! It’s still holding up ☺️ Good luck with your nettles everyone.
i just discovered your marvelous work. it's so interesting to see what nature brings us.
What a great idea, weaving people together. Your channel just showed up yesterday and I've been keen to make something with my nettles for years. The problem I have is this variety is very prickly at all stages. I cringed watching you touching them. Here off the west coast of BC on Haida Gwaii we don't have many nettle patches left.
Nice video Sally. I will give it a go.
I just finished a bracelet for a friend of mine, with nettle cord, so I guess I've already completed the challenge :)
Lucky this was suggested to me. Doesn’t seem to be on your video list?
Stinging nettles kept people alive during the Irish famine as it was the only food some people had .I'm probably alive because my ancestors ate this plant and I love ❤ it .it's one of the most nutritious plants on earth.. just found your beautiful channel and subscribed. Best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪 .thank you for teaching me new skills
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Nice idea. I’ve been interested in making natural cordage for a while and might give a simple bracelet a try :)
Just harvested my first nettles ever! They were only 1 to 1.5m long, most of them had too many branches,, but not too bad for the city center 🙈 the resulting fibres are between 50 and 90cm long depending on how good the nettle was. Time to let them dry 😇😇😇 kept them 2 to 3mm wide currently because they were too fragile due to the big number of nodes. Let's hope!
OK. “Stinging Nettle Friendship Bracelets”???
Sally, isn’t that an oxymoronic statement???
I think i like you.
We had one nettle pop up in the veggie plot but my sister ripped it out. There is no wild area with nettles near me. We have a nasty invasive weed called creeping Bell flower, I wonder if that could be turned into fibre? It is everywhere.
I will have to see if I can find any
Thank you Sally for your great work and videos. I like them very much! And I gave you an abo and thumbs up!!
Woo-hoo, I needed something interesting to do!
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Hey thanks for the interesting content! Found your video about nettle fiber scraping from two years ago through the RUclips suggested vids presumably because of my townsends subscription but i had trouble understanding what you were saying. I think i could make your videos sound a lot better since I've been a music software hobbiest for 15 years or so. Should I try to remaster a video or two for you and see what you think?
I currently just film on my phone, so if you have any advice for improving sound there, I'm always grateful for suggestions
Are you able to process the same way with Mother Wort? Reason I'm asking, I know they're in the same family, they grow tall, and I put a bunch in my worm bin and my words can't eat them- they're to tough!
Only one way to find out!
Wait a minute - we have nettles in California but they sting like heck! You must have nice friendly nettles in the UK! I have harvested some (with gloves) and cooked them with eggs. Tasty.
Nah, these sting like heck too, I've just had lots of practice handling them
@@SallyPointer I was just thinking I’m amazed watching you grab nettles, I just have to look at nettles and I’m covered in hives 😢 do you have any tips?
@@hollydolly1994 it's partly technique and practice, partly accepting a few stings as par of the deal
@@SallyPointer thank you for such a prompt response ☺️ I think I’ll stick to using gloves, I’m not that brave 😂💕
I will be looking for nettles near me. I am not sure where they grow since I had not looked for them before. I wanted to let you know I looked at a few of your cordage videos. I ran and got my wool. This fleece is unprocessed other than skirting. It has a 4 inch staple. I separated the smallest lock I could, about half an inch thick. I am now cording with it. It can be a bit tedious, but it is making cord beautifully. Could this have been how wool came into use in the neolithic? I think some types of sheep will shed some of their wool if not sheared first.
People have almost certainly been using shed fibres from a range of animals since the early palaeolithic, but it's always tricky to demonstrate exactly how doe to the nature of the preservation
@@SallyPointer Thank you for the info. I have been spinning, various fibers, for over 30 years. Lately, I have been wondering how it got started. I haven't liked the usual explanation because there are too many steps for it to be an intuitive leap. The cordage seems to be an inbetween step.
Bear in mind that very early sheep have goat like coats and only develop/are bred for woolly ones in the bronze age. There's quite a few very recent papers looking at this and using both extant textiles and sheep DNA profiles to further untangle the tale.
@@SallyPointer Good to know. Thank you.
I found myself searching for flax seeds to have a go at home. Just learned though that what is sold in the U.K. is for linseed and grows short and branched, whereas what’s grown for flax fibre is tall, with fewer flowers, so beware what you buy, everyone!
I am in the US. Are stinging nettles not sting-y?! I don’t know what would be similar in the US.
They are stingy until the leaves are stripped off, wear gloves if you feel more comfortable
How on Earth do you tickle those nettles and your hands not howl at you for a week?! I’ve planted some dock in a pot because I didn’t have any to hand. Bruising them onto your hand does work to calm the stick a bit but it still hurts for ages, in my experience. Perhaps I’m just a sensitive newbie! Enjoying your videos, thank you!
Plantain works better than dock. My hands do sting for a few days (so all summer!)
We don't have any nettle here in Florida. How could I get seeds to grow?
Like 5 years ago, my GF bought some native bayberry here in Maine. One rootball had a 'weed'*, we let it thrive. I'm ready, the closest thing I've done is finger weave cambium strips of Northern White Cedar (not a real Cedar, Thuja occidentalis). This will be more about fiber prep. So, the real deal?
edit:* Stinging nettle
Does that not sting you?
It does yes, but only whilst picking the plant
😿😿we don’t have nettles in Australia I have been looking for seeds to see if I could grow them as I know the leaves are edible.
I have only just found your RUclips site today and been binge watching this afternoon 🤗🤗
We do have stinging nettles (Urtica dioicia) in Australia. They are introduced and considered a weed but they do get found in some places. I remember them being more common as a child in the 70s and I remember my aunt talking about eating them at that time. I haven't noticed any patches for a long time, but I do live in the middle of the city nowadays.
I'd be surprised if nettles weren't in just about every town and city in Australia. They are certainly abundant in Sydney and where I live in rural NSW.
Hellos Sally. I have been trying to extract usable fibres from Phragmites Australis in my area. I must be missing a crucial processing step as they fail me at every experiment. Have you worked with this common reed?
I know it well but haven't tried getting fibre from it. Have you seen examples of fibre from it done by others?
I can find no reference to Phrag fibre processing. It may be impossible. I can find no use at all save thatching and reed boats. Not any kind of weaving or preparation. I was hoping you might have an explanation. Are the plants utterly useless for manufactured items?
@@timetraveller6643 maybe they really do just lend themselves to thatch etc, not every plant produces worthwhile fibres
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I have two ewe lambs (female) and I named them Nicola and Tesla. 😁
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2:34 are you saying macrame? Is that a normal English pronunciation?
I think I do say macrame round about there, and yes, that's normal UK pronunciation
I live in the wrong hemisphere for these challenges ☹️ but I can still have fun with the idea. Does nettle fibre take dye at all well, and are there any hedgebotherable dyestuffs? All the friendship bracelets I've ever made have involved two or more colours. I'm imagining a greeny-brown striped or accented with purple-brown. Dried blackberries or mulberries, perhaps?
Where are you? Friends in Australia seem to have access to nettles just at the other end of the year. It takes dye very much like flax does.
@@SallyPointer Northern Tasmania.
@@SallyPointer hmm… nettle can be used as a natural dye, and nettle fibre takes dye in the same way flax does… clearly the logical conclusion is that nettle is meant to be dyed with nettle. 😛
Hi Sally, I’ve just spent a lovely evening binge watching your videos and feeling like picking my garden nettles right now! But I have a few questions about bothering the hedgerows, if I may?
Do you worry about whether the field has just been sprayed, in terms of handling plants nearby?
And what is the situation with foraging, legally speaking, in the U.K.? I know we can’t dig up roots, but I heard recently it was also illegal to pick up twigs for firewood, for example. Perhaps that’s to stop wood burning in general, which I hope doesn’t happen……Everything belongs to somebody in our small islands. I was shocked at that!
If I came home with a great big burdock plant I might get some funny looks and I wondered what you know about this aspect please?
Thank you
You need to excercise common sense and respect of course, but generally small amounts of things that are easily picked from footpaths that aren't in someone's garden are fine. Even better to get to know your local farmers and landowners
Hello Saĺly!
I've been hooked on primitive cordage this summer and som of my collected nettles had dried completely befor I got around process them.
And to my suprice I just squeezed flat witk the handle of a knife and did as I always do break of the woddy bit and free the fibers. And the outer bark came right of mor or less. Super fast way to "clean" fibers.
Have you tried it this way. Is there any down side to letting the stem dry and then harvest the fiber?
Regards Henrik from Sweden
Sounds great! I find my local nettles get the bark really stuck to the pith if dried, but if yours are working this way it's definitely worth exploring. Good example of how local conditions can alter how a plant behaves perhaps?
I hate Stinging Nettle. I plant them by mistake in my yard, now I can get rid of them.
Maybe turning them all into lovely fibre and textiles is a way to love them as you use them up?
I wish you could send some to me haha. I can’t find any in Southern California ☹️
@@magesalmanac6424 Tell me where to send seeds and i will ship them to you. God bless
@@alluniquefashion6202 - Good luck with that, everything is banned in California. Soon they'll be banning breathing. 😒
I'd love to participate in these challenges, but Facebook is a no no. No Facebook. No Twitter. No Instagram and no tictok. If you ever decide to say no to tyranny and yes to freedom by putting your challenges on RUclips I'll be all about it. Not that Google is any better but needs must.
The challenge is in RUclips as you are watching it here! By all means post your version on RUclips