Wow I've been making cordage for years but this technique is so much quicker and easier - and easier to explain to others! Thank you so much for sharing :)
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.
Thanks for sharing. Good to know this kind of stuff. A little different than other videos of the same information and I suppose better in away than the others I've seen. I might go out and try to make a bow, string and arrows just to see if I can make them
Great tip, i rate it, as i learned something, here is my 1st twines experience, but i will give this a go, and a mancunians humble thanks, So thats a thanks from us manc's =)
I grow nettles in a container, but mine don't look exactly like yours. Mine have fairly skinny leaves while yours are fatter. Is there a difference in the European and North American variety? Thanks for the helpful information.
There are different varieties of nettle, but I also do find that even in my area of NA, there is a variety of sizes and leaf widths in stinging nettles.
I don't if I have the wrong plant or what but this one doesn't have fibers just the bark and some foam on the inside. Did all the work to harvest and remove the needles for nothing.
It's so weird for me to watch this tutorial because I came up with the same technique when I was a kid. The only difference is that I used a braid pattern instead of the twisting one.
I liked everything about this, but in particular I liked the use of the word "woodcraft" at the end. In this country we have woods and woodcraft is what we can practice.
Wow I've been making cordage for years but this technique is so much quicker and easier - and easier to explain to others! Thank you so much for sharing :)
That's fantastic to hear! Thank you.
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.
Grinstopher that’s fascinating thank you for sharing - I had heard something about this before but not in such detail xx
hi im growing nettles for spinning. do you know how it was softened? or was it used for rope and canvass?
Great explanation, thanks. Kids should have part of their education in the woods, put it in the National Curriculum!
It's called Forest School and it's slowly being incorporated into the National Curriculum, especially at Primary and some secondary levels.
The best demonstration I've seen yet.
beautiful! so enjoyable, and so well-produced. loved it.
Thanks for sharing. Good to know this kind of stuff. A little different than other videos of the same information and I suppose better in away than the others I've seen. I might go out and try to make a bow, string and arrows just to see if I can make them
Interesting,thank you,all are great videos
Great video, thanks for sharing 👍
Very very googe !!! The most clear cordage tha I saw . Thanks a lot !!!
Only this, the best video about cordage ... TKS
Finally a fellow British survivalist!
Great tip, i rate it, as i learned something, here is my 1st twines experience, but i will give this a go, and a mancunians humble thanks,
So thats a thanks from us manc's =)
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?
Yes a simple knot at the end will work perfectly :)
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 :)
about how long do you dry the fibers for before twisting it in to cord
Interesting 💚🇬🇧🌱 what can't nettles do?
I grow nettles in a container, but mine don't look exactly like yours. Mine have fairly skinny leaves while yours are fatter. Is there a difference in the European and North American variety? Thanks for the helpful information.
There are different varieties of nettle, but I also do find that even in my area of NA, there is a variety of sizes and leaf widths in stinging nettles.
Thank you. Brilliant.
Thanks for that, the technique I've been using was no way near as efficient!
Why do they make it when it's wet because it goes weird when it dries
My Grandad used to grasp nettles and strip them like that, then laugh when I tried to do it and stung myself !
Can I use nettles for a bow string?
I don't if I have the wrong plant or what but this one doesn't have fibers just the bark and some foam on the inside. Did all the work to harvest and remove the needles for nothing.
It's so weird for me to watch this tutorial because I came up with the same technique when I was a kid. The only difference is that I used a braid pattern instead of the twisting one.
I liked everything about this, but in particular I liked the use of the word "woodcraft" at the end. In this country we have woods and woodcraft is what we can practice.
I bet this dude does not live in a city. He is apocalypse ready:)
Taxable?
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You look like you have done this before
or go to home depot