Latest posts tagged with #cordage on Bluesky
We're excited to get practicing and to start sharing some of these skills on our own community projects! Have you ever tried #cordage or #nalbinding? Any top tips?
Thanks to the The National Lottery Heritage Fund for supporting our #peatlandprogress project, enabling us to learn valuable new skills!
The most wonderful day immersed in prehistoric textiles! Sally Pointer guided us through the history of cloth making, local plants to use and how to transform them into #cordage. We began #nalbinding (needle-binding), an endangered #heritagecraft, and made our own needles from antlers and flint!
A piece of string a few inches long made by twining fibres harvested from a banana peel. Like you do.
Did you ever try to peel a really green banana? And then the peel broke apart and there were all these fibres inside? And then you thought “I bet I could twine cordage out of that?”
Yeah, me, neither. 😳
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Aussière De la chatte
Une aussière est un cordage utilisé pour faire des nœuds et attacher des éléments ensemble, souvent dans le domaine maritime. #cordage #nœuds #attacher #maritime #éléments
Three bags made from plant fiber, using three different techniques, simple looping, figure eight and netting. #foragedfiber #foraging #nalbinding #cordage
A partially-woven willow basket sits a bit crookedly on a wooden table in the front porch of a farmhouse in Vermont.
A spiderweb-like ornament held in a hand. Its 12 spokes are made of slender willow rods. They are he'd together by twined cordage fashioned from tired and dehydrated daylily leaves.
A small sample of 4-strand flat braid made from the same daylily leaf as the previous picture.
I'm trying to learn willow basketry, and this material is kicking my ass. Had to retreat to the comfort of twining softer materials. This is daylily leaf, gifted to me by a friend, and it's delightful to work with. I think I need to make a hat.
#basketry #willow #cordage #wildweaving
A group of people seated around a table in a cozy room filled with cones of yarn and weaving tools. The table is piled high with different plant materials, and the people are learning how to make cordage.
Closeup view of a hand holding what looks like a small rosette of looped cord. It is the base of a net bag made from dracaena cordage.
Hemp, iris leaf, corn husk, raffia, and other cordage-making supplies on a table.
A lovely group of students learning how to make cordage at a workshop I taught at the Shelburne Craft School this weekend.
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I’m taking the bark off in roughly 1/4-inch strips, slicing through the outer bark and inner bark (cambium). At this time of year the sap has risen, and if the wood has recently been cut, the bark peels pretty easily.
Now the trick is to peel the cambium from the outer bark. It takes a bit of practice to keep the peel from running out on either side.
The final strips have roughly the feel of a heavy kraft paper. It needs to be a bit damp for working, but not soaking wet. Too dry and it gets brittle and tears. The objective is to keep the wood fibers unbroken to provide as much strength as possible.
Just a view views of processing wood bark for cordage. There are many ways of working it and I do not profess to be an expert in any way. I have yet to try boiling in wood ash (lye) to soften and separate the fibers, but I’ll need to try that at some point. #cordage #bushcraft
Two examples of cordage made from the underbark of trees. On the left is a hank of cord made from Autumn Olive; it’s dark brown. On the right is cord made from Serviceberry bark. It is a light tan color.
Today was playing with cordage again. This time I tried it with bark from Serviceberry, a native shrub/tree here in Virginia and one of my favorite woods for carving. The new cord feel sturdier, but we’ll compare the two after the new stuff has dried out. #woodworking #bushcraft #cordage
This morning’s product: about 10 feet of two-strand Autumn Olive bark cord. Mostly a light brown or tan in color, with some flecks of green and gray. Still kinda ragged in places, but I’m slowly getting more consistency. Think I need to make/buy a strap cutter for more consistent width of the strips.
This morning’s product: about 10 feet of two-strand bark cord. Still kinda ragged in places, but I’m slowly getting more consistency. Think I need to make/buy a strap cutter for more consistent width of the strips. #woodworking #cordage #bushcraft #fiberarts
Autumn Olive bark that has been peeled and stripped, with a bit of water to keep it pliable.
A very small folding pocket knife with a 1-inch blade. Turns out small is good for scoring strips of bark.
Autumn Olive bark that has been peeled and stripped. Turns out my tiny pocket knife is a convenient size for scoring out strips of bark from branch wood. #woodworking #cordage #bushcraft
A segment of flat braid made from the inner bark of Autumn Olive. Next step: make lengths long enough for actual use.
My objective in making cordage is for broom bindings. For the bark I’m using, I’ve found 2-strand twisted cord, braided into 3-strand flat braid, results in something strong enough for a binding. Not real pretty, but stronger than just a straight twist.
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I’m using the inner bark of the Autumn Olive, which is an invasive shrub here in Virginia. I make parallel cuts 1/4 to 3/8 inches apart and then peel it from the branch. I then remove the dead outer bark, leaving a pliable strip.
I’m doing a simple two-strand twist for the cord.
I’m doing a simple two-strand twist for the cord.
My attempts at making cordage (rope) from plant fiber are improving. The breakthrough was switching to the inner bark of Autumn Olive. It’s tougher than the grasses I had been using and is easier to produce in more of uniform strips. Still ragged, but improving. Thanks JYF for teaching. #cordage
I'll never not love using local natural materials. This corded grass smalls so nice.
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This was my very first experimental plant fibre net bag, made using a continuous knotless weave and basically every kind of plant cordage I could play with to see how it felt to work with...
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How To Craft T-Spindles: a complete ONE PAGE guide. .PDF!!! (The photo shows the satisfying moment when the cross-piece is positioned in-balance.)
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T-spindles are for 'crank spinning', a primitive style of hand-spinning closely related to drop spindles, but EASIER.
Make them with popsicle sticks & chopsticks!
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My first attempt at a thump mat knot in paracord. I think I overtighit somewhat but I’m happy with it for a first attempt.
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#RandomHashtagOfTheDay for Wednesday, January 15 is: #cordage
