Hi guys! Last week I got into collecting nettles and making string from it! Did you know that stinging nettle used to be an important source of textile fibres before industrialised cotton production took over?
I find it exciting and inspiring that you can get high-quality material out of a plant that grows so abundantly that it's considered a weed! Of course, getting those fibres out of the plant is hard work. In this video, I show a simple method of extracting the fibres - there are other methods as well, e.g. soaking the nettle in water first, and I'm going to try those out later!
Here's a link to Sally Pointer's nettle string video: • Basic Nettle String She has made many fascinating videos about nettles, they are a great resource!
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In this video, I decided to add subtitles only in Finnish, because many of my students seem to prefer this kind of style. You can still get English subtitles as well because RU-vid provides an automatic English translation that you can select in the CC settings. I encourage you to try and listen without any subtitles once you feel comfortable doing so! Maybe you need subtitles at first, but the second time around you could do without.
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26 июл 2023
