Now is a great time of year to process fibres from brambles for making cordage. Take a look at this short video to find out how to extract and prepare those fibres. Depending on the time of year, you will find us making cordage from brambles on many of our courses, including the IOL Bushcraft […]
On our recent Primitive Fishing Kits course, we used spruce roots for cordage so that we could splice the 2 component parts of the hooks together. Of course this isn’t the only only use for this really versatile material. Take a look at this video to find out how to prepare the spruce roots to […]
Back in early June Nicola and I spent an awesome day with Will Lord working on natural cordage. One of the materials he introduced us to was lime bark. It’s a fabulous material and makes excellent cordage. So I thought that I’d put together a guide on how to prepare lime bark to make your […]
