Hi Alexandra. It was a surprise to see a fellow Tracker on RU-vid. Wish you had added how to splice other strands onto the cordage to make it longer for purposes more useful than making a bracelet. We both had a great teacher, so I know you know how to do this. Great video. :-)
Hi Darrel! Thanks for the comment, there is a separate video on how to splice fibers : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7BQjt0JweSM.html&lc=UgxClfI5dF4IIwVH9_F4AaABAg
My 18 year old nephew suffered all his life with hay-fever in summer . Last year i got him to sting himself with nettles every time he visited me . This summer he said that his hay-fever is almost gone. Nettles have a antihistamine that helps against hay-fever. Best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪
I use nettle tea for the same purpose every spring with a occasional "top up" whenever the pollen count goes high. Then use the leaves in a stew or soup. 👍
Really have to seed these wild things in my yard. ❤ A wild mustard plant came up at the edge of my veg bed😊. I've babied it with everything else. Collected pods and more are ready. Leaves are edible. The little yellow flowers are so pretty. There's more things out there I've been wanting to dig up and bring home. Let all my radish bloom and go to pods also.
@@debrapaulino918 Once strained, the nettle tea is fine. I add a blob of Manuka honey occasionally. The leaves themselves don't taste particularly nice on their own, but shoved into a soup or stew, they're good. Almost like spinach....I said, almost. 🤐
Thank you for the concise explanation of the cordage twist. I have watched, in order of, fifty videos of this process, and came away from all of them wondering what the heck I just watched. Yours is the first which actually explained, in plain English, what was taking place during the twisting. I am so happy to finally understand! Now, it's out to the backyard, to conquer the menacing stinging nettle patch growing around my chicken coup. YAY!
Thank you for showing the way to make this , if ever needed for say a bow drill or shelter building i have the knowledge you never know what life hands you .
To keep the cortage going add new fiber in toward the bottom and keep twisting. Start of uneven at the ends so that new strands are staggered for strength purposes.
We have a "waste area" in the back lot. It used to be full of weeds, some of which were edible. I spread nettles in there until now, they cover it. Very persistent rooted, the planting should stay forever, if trees and shrubs aren't allowed to take over. You can cut nettles two or three times each year so that won't happen. Nettles have so many used, besides just being one of the moos cool plants you are ever going to meet. Eating, yes, but also super plant food! Soak in rain water for a few weeks, or cut them up small and fill a pit or big pot half way, add back soil, and grow a tomato or squash as the nettle matter below composts. Looks like Fiber will be on the agenda as well!
Nettles are a very nutritious, traditional cattle (horses, cows) feed, too: Harvest, set to dry, then feed dry stalks to cattle. The drying denatures the chemicals in the spikes causing the stinging.
I do not know what tensile strength it is, though I do know that you can mix different types of fibers (such as dogbane) in with nettles to increase its strength.
I remember me old Pa made nettle soup once - and it were sh!t!!! But, that said, I'm tempted, now that I'm a lot older, to give it another go. He's still kicking, and over 90, so....yeah:-D
When I was younger riding a horse fell face first in a bush of Stinging Nettle... Very painful... I had to be sedated because the pain it was causing. IS there ANYTHING else you can use beside this? Thank you for sharing this wonderful video. Beautiful
That sounds truly horrible! Yes, there are other plants you can use- both Milkweed and Dogbane (also called Indian Hemp) can be processed in this way. The difference is that you need to pick them later in the season after they have completely dried (where as with Nettles you pick them earlier before the die back completely). Also be aware that dogbane can be poisonous to dogs. Another plant I love is Yucca, it is not processed in the same way- I have a video showing that technique if you are interested. Yucca is very easy to find pretty much everywhere. Good luck in your cordage making journey!
@@judichristopher4604 good luck! you can purchase materials such as Rafia from craft stores if you want to practice just the cordage technique. Cheers!
My mate Bleddyn told me when I was 16 that he’d give me a fiver if I went over there and intentionally stung my Willy on those nettles. I took the challenge. It wasn’t nice. I’m 51 now. Still no fiver.
i have bad joints, and sometimes will run my hands through nettle, for me it provides some relief for about a week, but the first 4-8 hours kinda sucks bad
Hands down, your instructions are the best, clear and easy to remember. Brava young lady. I do hope you do more of this kind as you are a born teacher. 🥰👍💚
Hi! I have a video that demonstrates how to do this if you are interested, the link is : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7BQjt0JweSM.html Hope this helps!
You want to collect towards the end of the season just as it is dying. Too early and the fibers won't be quite ready and too late and the fibers will be degraded.
Hi! I am sorry but I do not know the exact species of this Nettle. It seems as though my Nettles here on the East Coast of the US look quite different from those in other areas of the world. Cheers!
you can make a little overhand knot at the end. I plan to make a video on how to splice in more fibers to make a longer piece of cordage and can demonstrate how to tie it at the end as well 🙂
I am in the US- I believe there are about 6 subspecies of Nettle- so yours probably do look different. These are very big and the also really enjoyed the rainy weather- they were some of the tallest Nettles that have grown in my patch so far 🙂
Mine do. 🤔 Let them grow tall enough and mature. They're good for fibres like this, and, if you separate the fibres, instead of twisting them, you can plait them into cordage from thin to whatever thickness is required. And, by plaiting in extra lengths as you go, make as long a piece as you need. Like dandelions and plantains, nettles are incedible plants, mostly undervalued or misconstrued by many.🤔
There are certainly a variety of nettles here - I picked some in England the other day that look very similar to the ones in the video. I think you just have to keep an eye out for them (and be lucky!)
@@AlexandraBurkhart I harvested the seeds from the female Nettle flowers a couple of weeks ago. Dried them out and sifted them through a sieve. Ended up with a large Douwe Egberts coffee jar full of these very fine green seeds. Sprinkle them in sandwiches, on stews, in smoothies and on virtually any other meal, including protein shakes. I'm still waking up in the mornings so can't be all bad..... 🙄
