Magic Cattail Wings for Twining Thread and Cordage! 

I'm part native american. My mother taught me this technique. I cried watching you do the same. We used our cordage while weaving baskets. I'm now a senior, but I will locate some materials and make a basket in honor of my revisiting this today. Thank you very much.

This is awesome to find out just how fine a cordage you can get for free! Wild stands of willow and cattails are everywhere around here making gathering these materials easy. Making this cordage is a really great crappy weather job even for old hands like mine. Thanks for the extra knowledge! Greetings from Alberta, Canada.

Oh wow my name is Warren brumfield and I just watched your video and I absolutely love that I am a survivalist and I absolutely love the art of self reliance and survival and I want to say thank you so very much for putting your video out there I absolutely love it and I hope you have a wonderful day

dogbane weed and i like using milkweed and corn husk as well and tulip polar bark and bass wood bark and concord grap vine for cordage but dogbane is the best out of all the plant i have used yukka gava a close second of being the best i remember my grandfather made cordage from cat tail but not to common her in west Virginia unless your near water we don't have red cedar here but you can use them for cordage as well with birth bark great video

Wow! Fascinating! I never knew about this material. Gonna have to give it a try.

Love cattails. Cordage, medical gel, edible root and pollen. I’m building a small pond just to grow them and another pond for other water plants. I make baskets but love reed roots aged then soaked as the material to bind the material together. But the cordage side of what you showed also binds baskets.

This is so cool! I've made cordage from the main part of cattails by basically shredding the main leaves into strips after drying, but was a little dissatisfied with the limited flexibility and weak strength. Doing some research on how to utilize them better and im glad I found your video! Looking forward to trying this later when the cattails are seeding!

My favorite part of this is the difference between the thread and the cordage. I LOVE this video and I'll be checking out your other ones.

Catails are very medicinal. Double bonus for me. Medicinal and for cordage!

I love learning new sources for making cordage. I LOVE cattail, because of how much of it is useful, for so many things, all year long (every year I look forward to late spring, when I can harvest pollen to make biscuits and pancakes), but this is new to me. Thanks for sharing.

Those are wild corn dogs!

the hell is good for sunburn relief

Thank you so much! Your explanations were very clear, and I am looking forward to trying basketweaving with local materials. And now I can try making cordage as well. May I ask what time of year I should be gathering these materials? I am in Atlantic Canada, so I am thinking mid- to late- August.

你的香莆绳子编得非常棒👍👍但我更感兴趣的是，你裤子上的刺子绣，希望你能制作一集关于刺子绣的vlog ，因为你的针线活也相当的好。我有足够的耐心，等待你的刺子绣节目😊😊我将万分感谢!

Thank you very much***

This is just Lovely. Thank you!

Wow! That really is magical!

Interesting video, thanks you!

Nice work, thanks

Try a drop spindle as well 😊

Very interesting thanks Video shows it well thanks :)

How long do you dry them? Excellent video

I'm over here windering.if you can make clithing with it, and blackberry or bramble fibers. We have a LOT of blackberry, and it does make nice cordsge. I just wonder if it softens with time and use like nettles and flax do.

Why dis it take two years for me to see this I need this shit

One of the most important health benefits of cattail is its natural antiseptic property, which has come in handy for various cultures for generations. The jelly-like substance that you can find between young leaves can be used on wounds and other areas of the body where foreign agents, pathogens, or microbes might do damage in order to protect our system. This same jelly from the cattail plant is known as a powerful analgesic and can be ingested or applied topically to relieve pain and inflammation. It is also used for toothache pain straight from the plant. I am curious one thing that I rarely ever see is the use of corn stalk and green brier and willow and wisteria for cordage. I am curious if you have ever hear of bobbin lace making? I was curious if this method could help you in some way?

Вот так из рогоза добывают нить для изготовления ткани рогожка)

Thank you for the detail on this. I wonder if you ever use tools to speed up the process.

Wow! How incredible! 😁 What do you do with all the leaves you have?

How do you add in? I don't see a second video. Thank you

Thanks for the video. Is there any issue with this cordage stretching or coming apart when wet?

New follower here! Is there some tool I can use to help me make cordage? I have hurt my thumb from cording a lot and now I have to take a break 😢

Would it be strong enough to try to fish with that cordage

Fishing line for survival. It works. Have you tested the strength of your cordage?

Do you ever work with the cattail stalk fibers? I've had some good luck in creating strong cordage with the fiber of the stalks, as long as they are harvested in June or July, before they become fully mature. If picked too late in the season, the fibers become woody and broken, much like blackberry fibers.

who knew? thank you

Could you spin the fibers with a drop spindle?

Can you dye the thread or twinge?

Why finger spin with fibers dry? Would spinning wet work differently?

It's called bulrush, the "hotdog" is called a CATKIN. YOUR UMS ARE DISTRACTING & BORING