Daily Archives: 29/05/2017

Making simple 2-ply natural cordage 1

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I’ve written previously about preparing nettles and sweet chestnut inner bark for making natural cordage but haven’t shown how to turn the prepared fibres into cordage.  So now seems the time to rectify that.  In the photos below Bob is using nettle fibres, but the process is the same whatever fibres you might have to […]

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Making a basket from sweet chestnut bark 1

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We’ve recently held our Cordage & Containers course and so took the opportunity to get some photos of the process involved in making a sweet chestnut bark basket.   I wrote about this same subject here back in 2013, but to be honest the photos aren’t all that good, so hopefully this will give a […]