Preparing sweet chestnut to make cordage
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2024
- Cordage is an incredibly important resource in a bushcraft or wilderness living scenario.
This video shows how to ret sweet chestnut bark to produce fibres for cordage.
The retting took 7 weeks, longer than I'd anticipated based on previous experience using lime, but I suspect the time difference is due to the high tannin levels in sweet chestnut.
Brilliant. Time consuming,but brilliant.
Thank you.
All the best.👍🏾🇬🇧
Excellent instructional video. Any chance of seeing the prcess of making the cordage?
The process for making a 2 ply cord from sweet chestnut fibres is the same as for any other fibre. Here's a video from last year showing how to make a 2 ply reverse twist cord from lime. ua-cam.com/video/A0Mv_60ppD4/v-deo.html
Windows wound down on the way home 🤣
Even after a wash it has a certain odour!