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Re-visiting making Yucca Fibers. I decided to try out my fine flax hackle I made to separate fibers from the Yucca Leaves. I took a big bundle of the leaves and put them into my flax retting tank. After 5 days I took out 5 leaves to see if the hackle will separate the fibers faster and easier than last year with the small floral frog nails. The find flax hackle I made works great. Made quick work of separating fibers. Not spinning fine but at least cording fine. The fibers are much coarser than flax but they were used long ago in the region. More difficult using stones and sticks to pound and scrape. So what am I going to do with these fibers? I don't know. My last fibers I tried some nalbinding to make a net. I did not do so well but I then got sidetracked and the fibers were left out and they rotted in the winter wet. I did not take care of the fibers. I was a bad boy. You can check out those videos here too.