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Survival Skillset

Lesson 9 of 12

Cordage from the land

50 min

Cord holds everything together. Shelter frames, tarps, pot hangers, bow drills, fishing lines, splints, bundles of firewood: all need something to tie them. People have made cordage from plants for many thousands of years, and the method you will learn in this lesson is essentially the one they used.

In this lesson

  • Cordage principles: finding and testing fibre
  • Testing a fibre
  • Common mistakes
  • Reverse-wrap: the core method
  • Steps
  • Why it works
  • Nettle cordage
  • When
  • Bramble cordage
  • Inner bark cordage: lime and willow
  • Spruce root lacing
  • Quick cordage from grasses, rushes and leaves

The rest of this lesson is in the full course

Every module, practical and exam, self-paced and private, with a certificate at the end.

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