After a hands-on demo with dogbane I bought jute twine, deconstructed it and remade it into a double wrap cord. The next was longer and I doubled the cordage and made a bracelet. Discovering raffia I found I liked it. Sometimes I'll use natural and dyed raffia together. Also, anyone handling raffia will discover tough, thin fibers that can be separated from the wider strips. This works with pitch to lash fletching onto arrows and these thin fibers can be made into cordage the size of kite string. When shredding and breaking down yucca, both the green leaves and the leaves that have turned brown, I will suddenly realize that I'm smiling.
Hi! Great video. Once you've made a length of cordage, how do you tie off the end neatly if you don't need to splice in any more fibres? (As the two end fibres can't really be knotted - that's what I've found anyway).
Hi METHOD ONE and DALEY. Yes, as I think Daley is indicating, you can tie off the end with what's called an overhand knot. Just leave both strands paired as one, loop it around itself, tuck through, and pull tight. Your most basic knot. That'll do for most applications. Plant fibers don't generally have the tensile strength of synthetic string, so you may also want to forego knots, if it'll suit what you're using it for: If wrapping, lashing with your cordage, you don't even need to bother tying the end, just tuck it between what you're tying together and wrap around the cord, locking the end in place.
An overhand knot of the cord itself is the quickest way, but frapping or lashing the end with a finer string or strand of material can make a cleaner end. (Handy if you want to thread the finished end through something. The tight wrapping around the end has a similar effect to melting the end of a synthetic cord, or perhaps the aglets on the end of a shoe-string or draw cord.)
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After a hands-on demo with dogbane I bought jute twine, deconstructed it and remade it into a double wrap cord. The next was longer and I doubled the cordage and made a bracelet. Discovering raffia I found I liked it. Sometimes I'll use natural and dyed raffia together. Also, anyone handling raffia will discover tough, thin fibers that can be separated from the wider strips. This works with pitch to lash fletching onto arrows and these thin fibers can be made into cordage the size of kite string. When shredding and breaking down yucca, both the green leaves and the leaves that have turned brown, I will suddenly realize that I'm smiling.
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Hi! Great video. Once you've made a length of cordage, how do you tie off the end neatly if you don't need to splice in any more fibres? (As the two end fibres can't really be knotted - that's what I've found anyway).
Hi METHOD ONE and DALEY. Yes, as I think Daley is indicating, you can tie off the end with what's called an overhand knot. Just leave both strands paired as one, loop it around itself, tuck through, and pull tight. Your most basic knot. That'll do for most applications.
Plant fibers don't generally have the tensile strength of synthetic string, so you may also want to forego knots, if it'll suit what you're using it for: If wrapping, lashing with your cordage, you don't even need to bother tying the end, just tuck it between what you're tying together and wrap around the cord, locking the end in place.
An overhand knot of the cord itself is the quickest way, but frapping or lashing the end with a finer string or strand of material can make a cleaner end. (Handy if you want to thread the finished end through something. The tight wrapping around the end has a similar effect to melting the end of a synthetic cord, or perhaps the aglets on the end of a shoe-string or draw cord.)
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