How To Make Natural Cordage From Willow Bark

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I spent some time with the amazing team over at Wilderness Pioneers based in beautiful Oxford (UK) learning different techniques for making natural cordage
In this video instructor Mark shows step by step how to make natural cordage from Willow bark
Please feel free to connect with Wilderness Pioneers:
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To watch the other videos in this series of natural cordage tutorials:
- How to make natural cordage from Cedar bark - • How To Make Natural Co...
- How to make natural cordage from Cedar root - • How To Make Natural Co...
- How to make natural cordage from Bramble - • How To Make Natural Co...
Hope you enjoy the video and as always I sincerely appreciate you watching
Peace
Zed
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@VortymLichbane 7 лет назад

Loving your natural cordage series, Zed. Thanks for sharing the knowledge :-)

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

You are very kind Ed thank you ~Peace~

@StarMountainHikes 7 лет назад

Who would have thought that making natural cordage would be so fascinating. Good stuff.

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Me and you both, really makes you appreciate the resources around you more esp when you are able to fashion useful items out of it ~Peace~

@corvusduluth 7 лет назад

Another well done video, dense with instruction, presented in a manner easily understandable. Thank you Zed, and thanks to Mr. Mark.

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Sincerely appreciate your kind words and for watching ~Peace~

@WiltshireMan 7 лет назад

A very interesting series Zed. I look forward to seeing you put the chordage to use in your base camp. Sandy

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Thank you Sandy, hope you're keeping well and the knife show went well for you and Lee ~Peace~

@MelanieRiley-lt2rl Месяц назад

loving the videos . keep up the fantastic work x

@Zedoutdoors Месяц назад

You are very kind thank you! ~Peace~

@TheRedhawke 5 лет назад

Another excellent learning video Zed. Thank you both.

@Zedoutdoors 5 лет назад

Sincerely appreciate your kind words and for watching my friend thank you ~Peace~

@MegaDapperman 7 лет назад

Great series. It will be interesting to see you put it into practice on your base camp build.

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Thank you kindly, indeed having spent time with these guys learning natural cordage making i'm a lot more clearer now of the work involved for using it to build my basecamp ~Peace~

@Ap13HELPjlb51 6 лет назад

Great video, Zed. Thanks so much for this instruction.

@Zedoutdoors 6 лет назад

You are very kind thank you ~Peace~

@SouthernRebelRanger 7 лет назад

Zed after you get all this cordage made you'll have enough rope to equip a windjammer! Another great video, keep them coming!

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Ha! very true :) As always appreciate your kind words brother ~Peace~

@twilightgardenspresentatio6384 5 лет назад

Southern Woodsman yes, build a windjammer!

@Joe_Sant 6 лет назад

Great video Zed. Mark seems a really nice fella. Great team at Wilderness Pioneers.

@Zedoutdoors 6 лет назад

Marks a super cool guy with oodles of talent, better looking then me too ~Peace~

@clambarn1218 3 месяца назад

Great video from gathering to finished product.

@Zedoutdoors 3 месяца назад

You are very kind thank you ~Peace~

@paganoutdoors3193 7 лет назад

awesome tutorial zed, they are cracking bunch of lads, definitely projects soon..

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Aren't they just, appreciate your kind words and for watching Craig ~Peace~

@foxxmulder7524 5 лет назад

It would be useful to know what the different types of willow tree look like, and where to find them.

@Zedoutdoors 5 лет назад

Yes that would be a different video ~Peace~

@jmgalaxytab2325 2 месяца назад

Willow can always be found close to water, and the weeping willow is easy to recognise, also willow is a natural source of aspirine 😊

@NorwegianWoods 7 лет назад

Nice video Zed. I have read about cordage from willow bark. Cool to see how it is done. I am looking forward to see how you will implement this in your bushcraft base camp project :) Keep the good stuff coming - Martin

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Thank you kindly Martin, cordage is something I have been wanting to learn for a long time so am happy to have finally learnt it. Hope you are keeping well my friend ~Peace~

@WayneTheSeine 6 лет назад

Who needs salt and pepper with all that gravy? Amazing stuff. Your willow seems much different than ours here in the southern US but I understand the same can be done with our species as well. What a great channel....showcasing other peoples bushcraft skills. I am very new to this and it should keep me enthralled for some time. When the weather gets better I will have to give this a try. Thanks you for sharing such wonderful skills and helping to preserve humanities ingenious methods of staying alive in a world it seems we are not equipped to deal with other than by our wits.

@Zedoutdoors 6 лет назад

Sincerely appreciate you watching and for your kind words my friend ~Peace~

@myemail5990 7 лет назад

I take it you have all ready started making cord for your base camp as it takes a while to get a nice amount done. Looking forward to see what your cord will be used for at your base camp. enjoying these cordage short films.

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

You are very right, only after learning these techniques have I realised how much time this really takes. I'll be doing a certain amount at camp and will have no choice but to finish off at home in my spare time ~Peace~

@miguelperez8373 7 лет назад

Thank you for showing your vidios a greeting from spain

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Gracias my friend ~Peace~

@travismills610 10 месяцев назад

Awesome video. Could you tell me what you had said about the best time of year to peel the bark? I was having a little trouble understanding.

@Zedoutdoors 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for your kind words, the best of time of year is usually around Spring when the sap starts to rise ~Peace~

@NWIPrepper19113 7 лет назад

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Thank you kindly my man ~Peace~

@TJackSurvival 4 года назад

More great knowledge with outstanding videography.

@Zedoutdoors 4 года назад

Thank you kindly brother, Manse the guy in the video is the one I mentioned to you who heads out to the US for the primitive skills stuff ~Peace~

@TJackSurvival 4 года назад

Zed Outdoors outstanding! I hope to meet up with both of you!

@robertkirk4387 7 лет назад

I have made this before using the "our man Mears" method (don't we just love the guy) and it's a faff, however it is quite satisfying knowing that you have actually done it, I did not get to use it so I have no idea how long it would have lasted but I wish I had used it for a Knife lanyard or similar, Since losing my left thumb some years ago (fighting lions, tigers and bears don't you know??) tasks like this are quite impossible now as unintentional clumsiness is still very painful. So! another stunner Zed (as always) keep em coming and see you on the next one, Regards, your mate Bob.

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Too right who doesn't like Uncle Ray and his informative videos. As always Mr Kirk appreciate your kind words and for watching ~Peace~

@1darrenjunor 6 лет назад

enjoyed the video gonna be trying this out cheers guys

@Zedoutdoors 6 лет назад

Thank you kindly ~Peace~

@stephenrichardsonmicro-adv4343 7 лет назад

Looking forward to seeing your cordage at your new base camp!

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Thank you dude, got a lot of work on my hands! ~Peace~

@dutchcourage7312 7 лет назад

Hiya m8, turns out i use my list on youtube more than my favorites list, so it turned out i had already missed new episodes while i was hoping to get into your channel ... so I decided to just subscribe and make sure i keep up. Tnx for sharing this ... would also like to have you know that 'we' (us dutchies) use the Knotwillow (i think we may just cut the main trunk of the willow at an easy height ones it's established) From this 'knot' the willow will start to produce the 'sun shoots'. Then you cut those shoots off at the end the year, tie them together and dump them in a stream, the bark will then rot off during the winter, and the sugars will leech out. You take the shoots out in the spring, clean them all of in the stream (best is to keep them under water, but you can let them dry for easier storage, and you can use these shoots to weave baskets (best i think is to re-soak them so they are wet and easy to twist). The tree will produce new shoots during the year, and you cut them off at the end of the year and repeat the process. (you can even let them grow for a 2nd year to make pretty straight spears or broom sticks. harvest them earlier for really fine weaves, and the willow also make great arrows). Only think i am not sure of is if we use an actual knotted species or if the knot just comes from cutting the trunk and then cutting the shoots off every year, but as such this tree grew on the edge of every field next to the 'irrigation ditch/aka stream', and weaving was a summer activity after the sowing in spring, to keep income coming into the farm while the crops were growing...

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

I really appreciate you sharing that, Willow is such an incredible material to work with and so versatile too. Take care my friend and thank you once again ~Peace~

@jmgalaxytab2325 2 месяца назад

Does boiling the fibers in ashes and coal strengthen all sorts of fibers, or does this work "only" for willow? Great video and thnx for sharing!

@Zedoutdoors 2 месяца назад

Boiling the willow bark in ashe/lye solution helps break down the fibres and thank you for your kind words reg the video! ~Peace~

@Waldhandwerk 7 лет назад

Very good guys, best way.

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Thank you kindly Sepp, have you made much natural cordage yourself? ~Peace~

@Waldhandwerk 7 лет назад

Zed Outdoors Quite some yes. Willow and linden bast works very well. Have a nice evening!

@dianagardiner7581 3 месяца назад

Can I do the ash bit in a slow cooker? I really hope so because I don't want to use my stew pot that I make food in. I use my slow cooker for dyeing in. Last year I made cordage with daffodil, dandelion and nettle - used it to tie up tomatoes etc. Thanks for the information.

@Zedoutdoors 3 месяца назад

Thank you for the kind words Diana and worth sourcing a cheap /. second hand pot that you don't mind roughing up ~Peace~

@dutchcourage7312 5 лет назад

Rewatching this and it seems as though i didn't leave a comment ? ... i put a like in, but no comment /shrug ... so geesh Zed, you were so young back then ;)

@Zedoutdoors 5 лет назад

As always I sincerely appreciate the kind words and the support from your goodself ...i've gotten more grey hairs since then ;) ~Peace~

@dutchcourage7312 5 лет назад

@@Zedoutdoors same here m8, same here...

@robertbritton5656 7 лет назад

Great video yes it was a little long but to be honest I preferred that and found it really informative great Vid Zed

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Yeh i'm trying hard to shorten these videos so apologise for that, always hard editing as i'm afraid to miss important stuff out. Appreciate your kind words and for watching dude ~Peace~

@Londonneur 7 лет назад

Zed Outdoors loving your very informative and content rich videos Zed. if I may offer a tip regarding getting the length down...? An ancient rule of thumb for filmmakers is "show don't tell". Cut anything that covers what is already shown. for example. You don't need the question, only the answer. keep em coming !

@WalkWild 7 лет назад

We just made a video with lye solution also, making amadou 👍🏼 thanks for this Zed

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Oh nice will definitely have to check that out, have yet to work properly with Amadou as it's such a versatile material ~Peace~

@sumwan7787 7 лет назад

I was totally expecting to see Mance at the beginning haha. When are we going to see more of your new basecamp? I really want to see what you've done with the place :)

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Manse had some time out on this one :) am heading to the basecamp the next few weekends so will be filming lots, had an ankle injury two months ago thats taking time to heal so is hampering my trips a lot recently. Appreciate you watching Chris ~Peace~

@frederickmerle6412 2 года назад

Why are all bushcraft videos in the UK made near International Airports? 😂 great video!

@Zedoutdoors 2 года назад

We have lots of airports! ;) ~Peace~

@garrettjohnston5153 5 лет назад

Good video thanks sir

@Zedoutdoors 5 лет назад

You are very kind Garrett thank you ~Peace~

@rehoboth_farm 2 года назад

Mark looks like one of those natives you were talking about in that cedar bark video.

@Zedoutdoors 2 года назад

Native to Oxford yes :) ~Peace~

@rehoboth_farm 2 года назад

@@Zedoutdoors LOL! Everybody's gotta be somewhere.

@Ovatione 7 лет назад

Another awesome video! How strong is that lye solution to work, i cant make so many fires here to get so many ashes. I can get lye at my work or the store. If it is too concentrated the lye will dissolve everything. Not very bushcrafty but i want to get on with it. The stick does not work to get the bark off, it will get too blunt too quickly and the knots in the wood makes it even harder. The back of the knife method works better in my opinion. Onelove

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Indeed many techniques to remove bark, this is just the one these guys use, bare in mind though that they make a LOT of primitive tools and materials so the bark stripping stick works well for them otherwise he would not have shown it. None of these guys have had issues with Lye solution being too strong so I guess it's something you'll have to play around with. Take it easy dude ~Peace~

@marwinleidekker1905 6 лет назад

Nice vid. Got me thinking, the peace of willow of which you harvested the bark would just about be long enough to make a suvrvival bow of. would you be able to use this cordage to act as a bowstring for that?

@Zedoutdoors 6 лет назад

I'm not very knowledgable about bows so couldn't say but a good point to think about ~Peace~

@alexdewitt9814 7 лет назад

another great one zed! couple of questions: 1) What species of willow is that? goat willow? it's one I'm not familiar with as there isn't a lot of willow here in south Bucks and I always look for the willow with the long narrow leaves whereas that one had oval leaves. 2) Is boiling in lye equivalent to retting in water in terms of strength and durability? retting obviously takes a lot longer so I've shied away from it:) thanks

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

I'm not sure what species of Willow this was but it's definitely not Goat that much I do know, reg the Lye solution yes it's the equivalent of Retting to a degree. Boiling in Lye helps break down the protein in the Willow bark thus making it stronger and more malleable. Sincerely appreciate your kind words and for watching Alex thank you ~Peace~

@Texasbushboy Год назад

Really educational Zed. Love this video. Do you happen to know what blade he was using to get the knot out? It has a slight curved tip.

@Zedoutdoors Год назад

Unfortunately I don't rememeber the name of the blade as this was filmed some time ago, so sorry! I've linked to Manse Instagram so maybe worth asking him on there ~Peace~

@Texasbushboy Год назад

Thanks buddy. Hope your doing well!!!

@craigmooring2091 7 лет назад

I'm wondering if there's a reason he didn't use the reverse wrap method used in the earlier videos with other fibers. Is it because of some inherent difference in the willow bark fibers, or was it his personal preference or some other reason?

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

From what I know it was simply his preference, you are right as both techniques work just as fine ~Peace~

@communitykino 2 года назад

Could you make string for a bow and arrow from willow cordage?

@Zedoutdoors 2 года назад

Indeed you can and Manse (the instructor in the video) has made many ~Peace~

@genevahagelstein7933 Год назад

Could this bark be used for basket making in 3/4" or 1" pieces

@Zedoutdoors Год назад

Hi Geneva, indeed yes this same material can and be used for basket making ~Peace~

@uberhabib 6 лет назад

Is ashe solution used for cordagemaking safe to touch, unlike lye solution used for soap? Is it not as potent?

@Zedoutdoors 6 лет назад

Generally no from what I know ~Peace~

@onegreenev 4 года назад

Use the boiled willow water for dying wool rather than tossing it out. How thin can you make the cordage?

@Zedoutdoors 4 года назад

We have no wool to dye hence throwing it out and easy to make more, you can make cordage about 2mm thick ~Peace~

@Makapida 5 лет назад

Wondering if I could use my spinning wheel to speed up the process...

@Zedoutdoors 5 лет назад

It's definitely worth a try! ~Peace~

@slhughes1267 3 года назад

This stuff will eat your wheel alive. Most wheels today are meant for wool types. All plant material is highly abrasive. Something as tame as processed flax will chew through a steel orifice and flyer parts. You can imagine what this coarse stuff would do to it.

@harrybouch7907 6 лет назад

Can you use the same process with ash bark?

@Zedoutdoors 6 лет назад

Not with Ash bark but you can use the Ash fibres themselves for basket making, etc ...often referred to as Ash Splint work ~Peace~

@harrybouch7907 6 лет назад

Zed Outdoors thanks man, I’ll check that out. Great channel by the way!

@trackerjacker0013 8 месяцев назад

I’m actually more interested in the blade being used.

@Zedoutdoors 8 месяцев назад

Isn't it a beaut ~Peace~

@trackerjacker0013 8 месяцев назад

@@Zedoutdoors that she is. Billhook?

@alexanderlively2729 7 лет назад

What kind of knife do they use?

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Hi Alex in this video Mark was mainly using a Bilhook he made himself ~Peace~

@maxrobertson4120 6 лет назад

Is this possible without adding ashes?

@Zedoutdoors 6 лет назад

No adding ash is essential as it helps create an alkaline solution ~Peace~

@zendoken5177 7 лет назад

Does the willow have better bark then other leaf-trees or just because its easy to peel off?

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

It's easier to peel off but other barks can be used too such as Elm, Lime, etc ~Peace~

@rxkern 7 лет назад

I'm liking it too, however it seems a bit long and have to admit to watching the entire video while fast forwarding. I'm a subscriber and enjoy the content, just a bit long imo. Thanks again for taking the time to do all this!

@Zedoutdoors 7 лет назад

Recording tutorials its tough as when I try speeding this up folk complain that i'm skipping parts / not showing the process properly. One of them things where i'm dammed if I do and dammed if I don't. Apologise for the length of these videos as still trying to refine my filming / editing process ~Peace~