Making Cordage from Nettles

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• GR

  @Grinstopher · 9 years ago

  greetings from Germany. Nettle was used to make cloth since along time ago, but between 1918 and 1950, the Germans tried to use nettle on a commercial scale. Fairly large production sites developed westwards of Berlin in the area of the "Havelländisches Luch". They also cultivated the "fibra" variety of the common nettle with a fiber content of up to 15% as opposed to 5%.  Due to difficulties in processing the plants on larger scales, the nettle industry never really reached a competitive stage. There have been some efforts in the 1990s, but nothing really came of it.

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• SA

  @sandrinakeffufal6008 · 1 year ago

  Wow I've been making cordage for years but this technique is so much quicker and easier - and easier to explain to others! Thank you so much for sharing :)

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• LI

  @LibellulaGlass · 8 years ago

  Great explanation, thanks. Kids should have part of their education in the woods, put it in the National Curriculum!

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• GR

  @GrahamWalters · 8 years ago

  My Grandad used to grasp nettles and strip them like that, then laugh when I tried to do it and stung myself !

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• GO

  @GodHasBeenGracious · 11 years ago

  Cool, thanks! I guess since you went to the trouble of collecting them, you could go ahead and have cooked nettle leaves to eat when you were done :)

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• AR

  @archanth · 11 years ago

  The best demonstration I've seen yet.

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• GI

  @gildef21 · 5 years ago

  It's so weird for me to watch this tutorial because I came up with the same technique when I was a kid. The only difference is that I used a braid pattern instead of the twisting one.

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• EV

  @evak2215 · 11 years ago

  I bet this dude does not live in a city. He is apocalypse ready:)

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• AS

  @Ashhow · 10 years ago

  Thanks for that, the technique I've been using was no way near as efficient!

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• KI

  @kingpanguan · 9 years ago

  Finally a fellow British survivalist!

• RO

  @robinhood8119 · 11 years ago

  Interesting,thank you,all are great videos

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• SE

  @seamusofoalain8909 · 7 years ago

  Great tip, i rate it, as i learned something, here is my 1st twines experience, but i will give this a go, and a mancunians humble thanks,<br>So thats a thanks from us manc&apos;s =)

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