Making Cordage from Nettles

Naturalist John Rhyder shows us the techniques to make cordage using nettles - from the initial preparation of the plant fibres through to the `twist and clamp` process ensuring the nettle `string` has the strength and flexibility required. www.woodcraftschool.co.uk An Adliberate film www.adliberate.co.uk for WoodlandsTV www.woodlands.co.uk/tv

[@Grinstopher]

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.

[@LizzieDeanMakes]

Grinstopher that’s fascinating thank you for sharing - I had heard something about this before but not in such detail xx

[@tinnerste2507]

hi im growing nettles for spinning. do you know how it was softened? or was it used for rope and canvass?

[@LibellulaGlass]

Great explanation, thanks. Kids should have part of their education in the woods, put it in the National Curriculum!

[@jamiegrover3181]

It's called Forest School and it's slowly being incorporated into the National Curriculum, especially at Primary and some secondary levels.

[@archanth]

The best demonstration I've seen yet.

[@Olhamo]

beautiful! so enjoyable, and so well-produced. loved it.

[@robinhood8119]

Interesting,thank you,all are great videos

[@suoppsdn9751]

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

[@iantaylor2271]

Great video, thanks for sharing 👍

[@Claudiomarsantos]

Very very googe !!! The most clear cordage tha I saw . Thanks a lot !!!

[@Claudiomarsantos]

Only this, the best video about cordage ... TKS

[@chanelname969]

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?

[@droneliveUK]

Thank you. Brilliant.

[@seamusofoalain8909]

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 =)

[@GrahamWalters]

My Grandad used to grasp nettles and strip them like that, then laugh when I tried to do it and stung myself !

[@GodHasBeenGracious]

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 :)

[@kingpanguan]

Finally a fellow British survivalist!

[@gildef21]

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.

[@marca5883]

Interesting 💚🇬🇧🌱 what can't nettles do?

[@SmokeNUFC]

about how long do you dry the fibers for before twisting it in to cord

[@Ashhow]

Thanks for that, the technique I've been using was no way near as efficient!

[@zoehancock]

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.

[@billlyoliveman]

Useful knowledge to have come the impending apocalypse and societal breakdown!

[@cynthiastandley5742]

Not sure it's impending; think it might be here.

[@evak2215]

I bet this dude does not live in a city. He is apocalypse ready:)

[@malachite072]

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.

[@JohnDought]

Can I use nettles for a bow string?

[@primitivecraig5500]

Why do they make it when it's wet because it goes weird when it dries

[@roncarpenter7240]

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.

[@keithklassen5320]

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.

[@DowntownSound1]

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[@simclardy5281]

You look like you have done this before

[@judyvance1556]

Taxable?

[@imsneeky]

or go to home depot