This is how people from the Stone Age made rope

[@austinshields2341]

People often misunderstand ancient humans. Their brains were just like ours: highly intelligent and creative, using the world to their advantage. We are where we are because humans have been adding to that pool of knowledge for hundreds of generations. As the saying goes, we stand on the shoulders of giants.

[@polar_inertia]

If anything we are dumber due to being so assisted by high technology. The brain being like a muscle the lesser we use it the weaker it'll get.

[@smithical100]

​@polar_inertia i swear, if the internet went out, people these days would try to google "what to do when the internet goes down". And they wouldnt realize why thats dumb until they get the "no internet connection" sign.

[@idkrossplay]

​@@smithical100no they wouldn't, I know a lot of dumb people who understand that you can't use Google without internet

[@Steven-cf2xs]

Nothing new under the sun

[@JustLostTheGame]

​@@smithical100No, this is a dangerous line of thinking. The conception and the wide acceptance of the internet has increased humanity's collective knowledgebase tenfold, you can only discover what isn't known, and having essentially infinite access to what is already known is only a boon to inquisitive minds. Don't let the ignorant minority define the fate of humanity's future.

[@danielkover7157]

String and cordage is one of the oldest inventions of humankind and probably one of the most important. It seems so simple to the point of being trivial, but there's so many things we wouldn't have without it.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

String is undervalued in the modern world.

[@gideonk123]

@@zacmumblethunder7466As a guitarist, I beg to differ

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

@@gideonk123 Those of us who love string do value it highly, but are we in a majority?

[@AudieHolland]

I believe it is on the same level as textiles. People didn't walk around in just pieces of fur, it didn't insulate the body unless it was one whole piece like a shirt or trousers. Without proper clothing, people wouldn't survive in colder climates.

[@HelloThere.....]

It's essentially the ability to deliver constant force without holding something. It's basically machine fingers.

[@DMAN99]

“Ug, stop playing with grass and come skin mammoth with mother” “No mother, Ug onto something”

[@johngalt5205]

English is older than we thought.

[@evilellis]

love how this implies Ug's mother just 1v1'ed a mammoth, but couldnt skin it alone

[@icarusbinns3156]

@@evilelliswell, Ug’s too busy playing with grass, so Mother has to go and get the meat!

[@sleepy.timaeus.arts.]

Ug was cookin 🔥🔥 but not with the mammoth meat!

[@settratheimperishable4093]

"Hold Ug's mildly alcoholic naturally fermented flour and water mix"

[@opus5770]

Playing with string is one of the stronger instincts in human babies for a very good reason. Fascination with that material, later guided by adults who knew how to make and use it properly, led to all kinds of important inventions. With string, you could tie planks of wood together and form a raft. You could make netting to catch fish. You could make a bow to shoot arrows and hunt larger game. You could stitch together furs more easily and warm your dwelling. Later on you could create textiles with a loom! All of that started with basic string, and all of that started with a basic instinct of fascination with the material.

[@nancyjohnson6557]

You could braid it together to make a belt.

[@theninja4137]

I think part of it goes back to monkey instincts though String is similar to fur, and tangling your hands deeply into fur means not falling off mama's back

[@theninja4137]

​@@nancyjohnson6557also all the clothes held up by the belt

[@reelgangstazskip]

​@@theninja4137Human instincts evolved from earlier ape species' emotions and instincts, but are still entirely separate.

[@hundredfireify]

Bruh, are you implying that cord-twisting is the result of natural selection?! Lmfao

[@TRquiet]

This guy seems like he’s legitimately good company. I want to get a pint and listen to him geek out about plant fibers.

[@GTaichou]

You can have similar conversations in any fiber arts group. Have a look around and find a knitting circle and ask them about balanced spins and Z-twists! :)

[@Witchy-Wonderland]

@@GTaichou Genuine question 🙋🏻‍♀️ Are these groups more filled with nature DIY ladies? Or big Popeye type dudes?

[@neo187420]

Dude's got some popeye hands. ⚓️

[@istvancsap3513]

yep its called early onset arthritis, its not that much fun though

[@Snaake42]

​@@istvancsap3513do you mean the red hands?

[@Snaake42]

If you mean the muscular forearms, it could be because he's doing so much crafts with his hands that need some power. Or another option is that it's possible he also practices historical swordfighting: I was told by someone who practices and teaches swordfighting with arming swords, so medieval one-handed swords, that if you do it a lot your forearm and wrist/hand get more muscular, but your biceps not so much. This can be quite a distinctive look, because it's not that common nowadays. Maybe it used to be more common in certain professions.

[@ryangagnon5489]

@@istvancsap3513 i think there are more explanations that just that

[@johnny88sunday]

I was just thinking, how wide are this guy's thumbs!? Wouldn't like a thumb war with him...

[@cr3237]

Brambles (blackberry) also makes excellent, strong fibre. They grow quickly and quite long but the downside is you have to remove the thorns first.

[@sophroniel]

nettles and linen are stronger but yes, you can use many different plants to make fibres. Generally cordage is weaker at the sites where thorns were, however. Source: I am a reinactory and living history archeologist with a specialty in fibre arts.

[@austinshields2341]

@@sophroniel do you know if Himalayan blackberries (invasive in PNW, larger, found everywhere) or trailing blackberries (smaller, less thorns, indigenous to PNW, MUCH TASTIER) are better for cordage?

[@Egerit100]

​@@sophronielwhere does a person like you even find employment???

[@thehomiepatchez]

He doesn't need employment he can make ropes. You can catch game with snares you can make fishing nets with chordage. Maybe even fish with it. All he would need else to survive is basic bushcraft slills and he wont need a job​@@Egerit100

[@derrickallen8138]

I know I few people who would enjoy the thorns

[@user-zr3pz6rp6v]

Our ancestors were smarter than we give them credit.

[@alperendogan6062]

Some reseachers claims that they had exactly same level of intellect with todays people. They just didn't had basic technology and its kept local so there were no collective improvement until some

[@melanierose4140]

​@@alperendogan6062 Basically everyone who deals with ancient peoples says this. Our brains would've only been different when you start getting to our common ancestors with other apes, even then we were very human. People have always been as intelligent and empathetic as they are today.

[@mh1970]

I think the main difference between them and us is that we have methods of recording and sharing information. Back then information didn't spread as quickly or easily. Improving communication and record keeping made a big difference.

[@ziggenplays1208]

They were smart but they were also bored beyond oblivion. Most human inventions were discovered on accident by goofing around

[@wiciuwiciu2783]

​@@ziggenplays1208nothing changed 😊

[@TheLeftwheel]

My favourite theory about the magdalenian batons is that they were an aid to making cordage. So many of those batons have been found that it reasons that they were common tools or some sort. And you can never have enough cordage.

[@C2ACTUAL0]

“I’m sure somebody back in the day was fiddling around and thought that’s quite cool” 😂😂😂

[@sarasmr4278]

Some of the most important discoveries in human history started with somebody going, "Well, that's funny..." 💜

[@RRonco]

Stuff that disintegrates, like rope, basketry, textiles, are not well preserved from antiquity, it's amazing what they're able to discern from the scant clues we have remaining. Such as knotted thread writing systems, how brilliant! Sight and light not necessary to read! Musical notation included!

[@EmpressLizard81]

I learned about those rope books within the last year or so, and those are endlessly fascinating! And tragic that folks decided to try and destroy that culture.

[@-desertpackrat]

​@@EmpressLizard81 sadly that's the number one reason why technology took us so long to start progressing as fast as it is now. Every time some culture invented something world changing, someone who only cares about land and power and being the biggest baddest dude, comes and destroys the people and all their tech and history. Especially if there was religion involved, people who didn't like that another group was doing better than them in technology, would claim that technology goes against their god, and then destroy it and also forbid anyone to research that subject again, etc. Imagine if Britain and the Catholic Church hadn't been enslaving and brainwashing people in other nations for centuries, and someone in the 1300s was allowed to talk about space and science without being imprisoned for heathenism or heresy. And imagine if they were inventing internet in the 1600s and cancer had been cured in the 1800s and today we'd be living in terraformed cities on other planets in a utopia where no one works because robots do it all for us and all diseases can be cured with one pill that someone invented 400 years ago because he wasn't someone's slave instead. War is the reason so many inventions were lost, possibly forever, or we have to discover them from scratch, years later than we would have if people weren't so busy trying to control everyone else.

[@hannahbrockette1310]

​@@-desertpackratVery very well put. I think about this stuff all the time

[@monaw6484]

Actually lamps are among some of the oldest artifacts we find (granted they are often bone or stone which preserves well) with animal fat as the “wax” fuel that burns and simple wicks. So people sat in their caves at night doing stuff they needed light for:) it’s an awesome picture to think about

[@Bonez0r]

​@@-desertpackrat you seem to be very anti-religion and very anti-western. Don't forget that the wars and atrocities that killed the most people were caused by secular regimes, not religious ones. And that back in the day _every_ culture was religious, so all the _good_ was also done by religious people. And that slavery existed in every culture, long before the transatlantic slave trade (which by the way was dwarfed by the amount of slavery in the Middle East and Africa at the time), and that it was the West that finally put an end to slavery in most countries. If not for the efforts of France, England and the US mainly, slavery would still be common around the world today, although there are still slave markets in certain parts of Africa even now.

[@RandomAussie-dx9fj]

I love how everything in existence was invented by some random person fiddling with stuff

[@mh1970]

Now we call it R&D

[@StupidBisexualWitch2]

Cooking most likely came about from some dumbass playing the "Will it burn?" game with themselves.

[@fistingthecomp]

Look up how they discovered wood welding, that'll give you a chuckle

[@ballalpatil6512]

I've been fiddling around my stuff for a while now. Wonder why I haven't found anything new?

[@fricholas7608]

I'm really surprised you haven't gotten a religious coment thrown at you yet for this comment lol.

[@jeanneganrude8549]

Bro, you’ve got some hard working hands there … Nice demonstration.

[@neo_7864]

yeah, that is what I wanted to say too..widest thumbnail I've seen

[@mme2755]

They are just hands.

[@BigGayFuttbucker6942]

they look nasty lmao like theyre boiled or they got some kind of foot fungus

[@kerryalbritton6532]

Useful 💩 right here! Appreciate the short class. I am an ole boatswoman and know ropes and knots. This is a very informative and useful video

[@michaelthemadsoldiertist]

Thank you. This is actually an epic bit of information. This is the kind of stuff that needs to stay in human memory. Especially during times like these.

[@britbrit4294]

To add lenght to this just fold a bundle in half and twist it into the bundle about four pases before you run out of length.

[@icollectstories5702]

I was wondering about that. I can't visualize it, but maybe I'll just have to try it.

[@sethr.c1065]

I used to do this as a kid. I didn't have resources to learn how to make things like this so I figured it out. I did woodworking with only wood (wooden batons and chisels), and I made rope from an ornamental ginger that had grown into a jungle. Once I made the rope from a tropical plant we call elephant's ear for its resemblance. Found out the hard way it contains sharp silicone crystals that cause microscopic cuts on flesh. All over my arms and hands. Felt like they were on fire for days. (My process involved crudely smashing supple branches into fibers with rocks)

[@Witchy-Wonderland]

I was wondering how you were (thinking) of doing Elephant Ear’s 🧐 lmao Certainly not the plant I would pick for “some rope” 🤭 Just seems so…wet - once smashed. Good to know about the crystals though 👀 ✍🏻

[@sethr.c1065]

@@Witchy-Wonderland the rope from it was excellent, actually. I knew what I was doing lol, just not the dangers of that plant. I still have a piece of the rope, though it loses tensile strength after around a year in dry conditions.

[@BebbaDubbs]

The fiber age has never ended ❤

[@TomeRodrigo]

He will twist your bones into a rope with those hands.

[@muuokavita1178]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH for this knowledge,BEEN searching for these kind of TRADiTiONAL KNOWLEDGE

[@starby1243]

His hands look really strong

[@bubbles190]

You wouldn't win a thumb war

[@starby1243]

@@bubbles190 His thumbs are like my TOES

[@anyascelticcreations]

Unless you're faster than he is. I remember thumb wrestling with my dad and my older brother when I was a little girl. The only way to have a chance was to be fast. If you can get theirs fast enough and then hang on you might win. ​@@bubbles190

[@Insane3OB]

They look like big strong hands don't they?

[@greg9088]

Tiny hands. I look at those hands and I say, my what tiny hands.

[@Drone3vil]

Animal sinew was also common for bowstrings etc

[@antlionworkerfan2007]

And to think that people genuinely believe aliens are responsible is simply absurd, it’s human ingenuity like this that’s responsible for the modern world.

[@FreeOfFantasy]

It's always stuff brown people build, like the pyramids in Egypt or Mexico but not greek or Roman building or stone henge that the aliens build for those people.

[@dc4lcorkscrewpatdaGIGA]

Nobody says that about anything other than like the pyramids … not rope

[@antlionworkerfan2007]

@@dc4lcorkscrewpatdaGIGA The “History” Channel’s “Ancient Aliens” would disagree with you, then again I don’t think they even believe the shit they are saying

[@dc4lcorkscrewpatdaGIGA]

@@antlionworkerfan2007 yea they are ridiculous

[@Hedgeknight420]

Can’t both be responsible for the modern world ? It’s silly to be intelligent and ignore that as a possibility !

[@cottonmouthasmr8713]

I started watching Dr Stone we'll need people like this guy this info is important to have stored

[@horgelsinfelgrass7164]

Was fiddling around and said that's cool. Love it

[@Rena152]

"Huh, that's cool" is the precursor of civilization

[@blupinkyellogreen]

Also, "I wonder what would happen if......"

[@DanielPlainsight]

Such an underrated comment. I take this above "aliens did it" every day of the week.

[@shawnndixon5254]

was just doing this with some hemp plants i chopped the other day. miracle textile it is.

[@Ironbattlemace]

Wins cotton imo. But bedsheets and shirts maybe something that I would not want to be hemp.

[@ulfheinn]

You do not want to take this guy on a Thumb War...

[@Kierispet159]

@@ulfheinn what's his name?

[@niaelbryant2336]

Thank you. Great to know, when the utility stores are out of stock.👍

[@grasz]

Ancient guitars and pianos are masterpieces

[@baron-chan6484]

This types of videos always show up in my recommendation at 3am just when i went to bed, and i just put it as background noise to help me sleep 10/10 would recommend to try

[@Lemonz1989]

In my country people made thick ropes of sheep’s wool to rappel down cliffs to gather sea bird eggs during breeding season. Thankfully people don’t do that anymore, since it was very dangerous.

[@VHSAUCE1997]

What country? Is it in the South Pacific?

[@talullah1065]

What country is that? I wanna do it now

[@Lemonz1989]

@@talullah1065 It was in the Faroe Islands. People still do it, but with professional mountain gear. :)

[@SamS.7598]

Ah we classic humans. Always making birds and animals go extinct while coating everything under us in cement and calling it progress.

[@NguyenNguyen-rj6ez]

Underrated technology in Stone Age.

[@desireer6915]

Cool! Thanks for teaching us!

[@brysonbj7789]

This is actually pretty cool, stuff like this like how things were thought of and made originally is sick

[@pianogal853]

You have some amazingly strong hands, man! Good job!

[@thomashernandez6536]

Imagine if humans worked together to defeat problems.

[@TicklingGoat]

We can once we stop inventing new problems.

[@shellybunnii]

Which period is he talking about because the Stone Age was 2.6 million years ago. It’s so crazy that each of us were given a time line to live in. We obviously live now but the ancient people lived the way they were living and thinking like us that there present was the present and they had no idea that one day people would have been referring to them as ancient people but they were just living the life in the time period they lived in. It’s so insane how we were all born in this time period and why not another time period? Soon we will be known as ancient people lines down the road

[@joshowawood1786]

Well, doubtful. Technology is so advanced for us. The word technology in general is the main evil to humanity that we create. It’s a classic tale. It will be our downfall if a miracle doesn’t happen. New horizons create even higher levels of evil that will soon become victorious. One can only hope and have faith that good prevails. Religious or not, revelations even biblically has an end to mankind. Which tracks rn in the present.

[@deborahaumiller7391]

Not. 2.6. Million. Years.ago. much, much more recent.

[@nathanswan9534]

I know what you mean. Occasionally, I have these flashes of feeling that I can't explain. It's a very fleeting feeling, and it's always along the lines of "how is it that I'm here in this situation, but there are other me's everywhere?" It's weird. Like we're all connected or something

[@Dr.Ballsonya]

I enjoy smoking weed as well.

[@LillllyPad]

The Stone Age at least in Scandinavia was between 15 000-3700 years ago.

[@BlueBirdBaby]

Thank you for being you, sir!

[@kaylahall1219]

Foundation of civilization! Gotta respect 💯

[@KrayZky]

My friend from the Philippines showed me how to do this. He made me a bracelet. We started making them so fast lol

[@hannahbrown2728]

Id love to see Sally Pointer talking about ancient cordage on the channel one day!

[@TheJozabi]

Cordage was also very prevalent in the indigenous people of America. We often used plant fibers from dogbane to make ropes and other cords.

[@PFVHL2]

What is dogsbane?

[@TheJozabi]

@@PFVHL2 sorry, I meant dogbane not dogsbane. It's a fibrous hemp plant. It's very easy to make cordage out of it in the late fall. I'm from Oklahoma and we have it here. Not sure if it's all over the United States though.

[@PFVHL2]

@@TheJozabi you spelled it right the first time, don’t know why it autocorrected when I wrote it. That’s pretty cool though, I looked it up and it does grow where I live.

[@ezrafriesner8370]

When I was doing some archaeological work for the Ojibwe, they told me they used to use water reed fibres for the same thing! Which was apparently what they used to tie leather to wooden frames to make canoes for harvesting wild rice. Fascinating stuff, I hope this sort of traditional knowledge is passed on well. Respect from Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@JaneAustenAteMyCat]

Yes, it's something that has been seen in every culture around the planet for millennia. It's fascinating

[@smirkinatu5512]

Thank you for recording and posting this valuable educational video.

[@Cyanapanasati]

Mi like di wuk, respeck! Di Nettles, weh part a di plant yuh use? Bless up fi di kindness 🙏

[@OhDADDY_Y]

In our village we still use this process to make rope and other accessories

[@bsctsngrvy9089]

How come I can see literally EVERY VEIN IN THIS GUY'S ARMS!?

[@davidbhart1867]

That's what happens when someone works with their hands all their life lol.

[@bsctsngrvy9089]

@@davidbhart1867 I work with my hands, my shit ain't spiderwebbed.

[@AldousHuxley7]

😂

[@htoaletaarxidatet]

its called labour

[@bsctsngrvy9089]

I work hard labor, with my hands and my arms don't look like they healed poorly from being stuck in a wheat thresher.

[@ct0903]

Oh, so amazing. This guy deserves a reward

[@Abdullah_D_Luffy]

This is so awesome. I wish we still made our own.

[@proudmasculine]

The fucking hands on that guy👊

[@alexthewormking5913]

His thumbs have literally morphed into perfect rope rolling machines.

[@proudmasculine]

@@alexthewormking5913 I’d hate to take a right cross

[@Hedgeknight420]

Dad hands FRFR ONG

[@D4rkkay]

Bro maxed out his melee stats

[@horgelsinfelgrass7164]

Hemp was among the first plants humans cultivated. Ancient Chinese pottery bearing impressions from hemp rope suggest its use 5,000 years ago and possibly more than twice that long. From the Colonial Williamsburg website

[@malechex611]

Dudes got ropes in his arms, my god that's impressive honestly

[@SergeantWamf]

Didn’t really think about this before this video. Glad I learned this today

[@bigbadwolf4190]

Now this is interesting and, if needed, very useful

[@brandonlee773]

Not to sound gay but that dude has beautiful hands

[@ezrafriesner8370]

I mean I am gay and I think the same thing 😂

[@NOTHING-AT-ALL.]

You have to say no-homo or you will be gay

[@Flamer997]

pretty much the same way we make rope now just with a big machine, the two twists are important so they counteract each other so they don't fold up on themselves and get all tangled so it keeps it nice and straight despite being twisted.

[@koolaid33]

I may look at this now and think "wow, cool but it looks like a long and grueling process. Did they ever get bored?" And somehow don't think about the fact that these vikings would've been at sea for months, with nothing to do at all, they'd literally wake up, build and train, and sleep, until they landed at home or they reached a new place to conquer. They had so much free time, they decided to do this AS their entertainment.

[@nikolaip5834]

His accent and background music make this an especially good watch I must say

[@John-gb7ht]

I bet man hands have so much grip strength. Easy to see that he works doing this sort of thing.

[@Carena722]

Yeah and they wonder how they moved the stones for the pyramids when it’s pulley and lever system which everyone learns and a sht ton of people. Idk what’s so unbelievable about it

[@David-u5w2r]

The people who built them said they sang to the stones and they walked. Take it for what you will.

[@1974Qball]

They used sound to move the stones and it's over 9000 years old......

[@DemonMj]

​@@1974Qballplease tell.me you're joking and that's not what you actually think

[@davidbhart1867]

@@David-u5w2r There's literally DIAGRAMS on tomb walls explicitly showing ropes and pulleys being used to move the stones. How can you be so deluded?

[@David-u5w2r]

@@davidbhart1867 tomb walls, not the pyramids. there's also pictograms showing people working on statues, that still exist, and if the proportions in the pictographs are correct the people would be 15-20 ft tall. The pyramids are not tombs. The giza pyramids, not the step pyramids. These tombs came much later than the giza pyramids.

[@zacharienlandu3834]

He has the hands of someone who can make you comatose with just a slap

[@gewalfofwoofia8263]

People were smart back then too, just not the same accumulated knowledge. We had to start the tech tree somewhere.

[@richardtutor8331]

Great job. Thank you 😊

[@Saeiyu]

As a dressmaker who loves seeing fabric created(or anything using “thread/fibers”), I gotta say, that is stunning!

[@datagrl]

Love that hooded caplet. You make that?

[@kawaiicake8038]

Omg yea it’s so ren fair I love it

[@moredac2881]

But how did they learn how to twiddle rope WiThOuT AlIeNs

[@mdnim_2564]

Funny satire.

[@sophroniel]

It's called Rhetting fibres, what you do to linen. They think that the "batons" the find in stone age sites might've been for creating multi-ply ropes.

[@thomasmasseycontrereras8740]

Those forearms are crazy!

[@emreeren13]

Our brain practically didn't change since 60'000 years. We just gained more knowledge over time. Let that sink in.

[@alexthewormking5913]

Cmon now we all know the stones for the pyramids were delivered by aliens not pulled by ropes🙄

[@Bingoblin1]

Please satire

[@gems8167]

Very cool

[@jonathanwells223]

Amazing what you can figure out when you’re not forced to work a 9-5 just to survive.

[@J.E.W.S1967]

Thank you for the entertainment video. I knew they made rope out of grass and straw and stuff like that and vines and everything but wow, you made it so interesting. I hit the light biting. I hit the subscribed button so I can see what else you gonna teach us thank you so very much for your video, sir, you’re awesome John from South Jersey the good part of the state lol

[@nathanhale7444]

I actually stumbled on it as a kid and came to the same conclusion

[@danielomar9712]

The Village's adhd was just twiddling and just found out "Holy crap , LETS HANG PEOPLE WITH IT"

[@tobiasmyers3505]

Lol!!!

[@AeonKnigh432]

I feel like that probably came later, but sure

[@leobuana7430]

​@@AeonKnigh432 yeah, probably start with "let's hang the meat" or "let's tie the stick with this"

[@VortexVibe634]

Ohh, and I thought Stone Age rope was made out of rocks! 🤯

[@SakuraiEvsa]

damn that's creative. gonna steal that idea.

[@AeonKnigh432]

Lol

[@robert48719]

Stinging nettles? Ouch, I feel genuinely sorry for you

[@sterling557]

I think they boil it first which dissolves the stingers, ( You can drink the tea too, it's high in vitamin C). But True, you gotta pick it somehow.😜

[@robert48719]

@@sterling557 yeah, probably. We often make tea out of that in Germany

[@ezrafriesner8370]

@@robert48719aye, people often also make them into soup here 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@cameronharris8039]

Thankyou sir, knowledge shared

[@Crakinator]

Thats remarkably simple and useful, thanks

[@caravanlifenz]

It's interesting how most of the cultures figured this out at some point. In New Zealand, the Maori used flax leaves for making baskets, clothing and cordage. They arrived in NZ from the Pacific Islands, so they were good at sailing.

[@GTaichou]

This would make such a balanced rope too! The physics of the twists side by side in opposite directions stores so much energy and strength in that thread! How beautiful!

[@mg42lover]

While visiting Hawaii I got to watch how they made rope from coconuts. Very much the same way but looking at a hard ass coconut and imagining the fibers becoming rope was genius. Love that people don’t let the old ways slip into obscurity. Thank you for sharing this.

[@nz-nz]

As a spinner your explanation is great. One strand is done in “S” twist and the other is done in “Z” twist (Look at the “bar” of the S you can see \ and the Z is /) In yarn production, two “singles” are produced, both in the SAME spin (either Z or S), then these are plied in the OPPOSITE direction (either S or Z). The result is a “cancellation” of the twists.

[@MildarValsik]

Ah this helps me for the last step I didn't know yet.

[@Sally-Anne-osmer]

That was really interesting.. Thank you ✌🏻

[@offinthehaed]

Stone, wood ,fire and textiles. Textiles being a massive game changer

[@CreoTan]

Yes!! Humans like to fiddle with things, use our hands to see how they work and what we can do with them ❤

[@Glanzfellchen]

Wowi, your sound is amazing! 😊

[@MxDiagnosis]

I've done that as a kid, didn't keep thinking about it and it's use but I can definitely see how they came up with it

[@shringarikasrivastava9649]

Such a refreshing video ❤

[@amrcnngrmny]

This dudes hands LOL! Monsters.

[@Djanck000]

Came looking for a certain type of comment, didn't found it and i'm happy to see a community thriving. Really cool.

[@lscales6131]

Sapling bark as well was used it was really strong and pliable.

[@marsbase3729]

Brilliant demo mate! Also hemp! 👍

[@AhJodie]

Easy Peasy, thank you!

[@williamlewis8773]

The Renaissance Faire at King's Contrivance , MD , was pretty good for artists when my daughter was in high school . It was both a great learning museum and a fun tourist destination for artists to show their youthful arts and skills .

[@dfquartzidn6151]

That explains RLCraft! In that Minecraft mod pack, instead of just punching trees from the get go, you have to get a flint knife from gravel and a stick I believe from breaking tree leaves iirc, cut tall grass using that knife, get enough plant string to make a flint axe, and then use the axe to cut down trees. This reminded me of that memory. Thank you for this interesting knowledge as well!

[@mweskamppp]

In the Andes there are still some villages that build bridges from grass every year new. Worth to take a look at the documentary.

[@mosaicowlstudios]

Rope: yet another thing I take for granted as a modern human everytime I buy it pre-packaged from a retail store.

[@Cory_LaRose]

I made this rope when I was 10 lost in the canadian wilderness for 2 months. I made snares and a bow string. I used for hunting and fishing. I made a rope for hanging my kills and to bind my tee pee together. Also my rope helped me build fires. My chapon kukum and mushum taught me this when I was very young. I know all tue plants and erbs to use and and the time of day to hunt each animal. How to make friends with the raven and the raven will help me and protect me. The bear will leave tools for me and the wolves will teach me how to survive.

[@MarthaJane-s9s]

how did you get lost for two months?