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
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The rest of this lesson is in the full course
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