Part 2 of my articles on bow drilling for The Bushcraft Journal. This one was published in Issue 15. You can read the first part here. Posture and technique In the last issue of The Bushcraft Journal I described how to make a bow drill set, this time it’s all about consistently producing embers. Thanks […]
We make woven containers on our Cordage & Containers day. This weekend we had some bark left over and decided to have a go at folded bark containers instead. In many ways folded bark containers are simpler and quicker to make and so I took a few photos as we put one together. We had […]
I’ve written posts previously on making cordage from nettles, lime bark and sweet chestnut. This time it’s brambles. Bramble cordage is actually quite easy to do, the preparation is straightforward. The only caveat is that (in my experience) you can only do this in the late part of spring and the early part of summer […]
