Medieval rope making with bast using a reel and a stick 

I’ve got yucca plants in the yard that I can’t kill, but I’ve recently read they can make some decent rope fibers. So, I’m about to build this setup and take a stab at it. Thank you!

Oh this is delightful I've been looking for low impact activities to demonstrate at events!

Cat needs to play with string, nothing better than to see an artisan at work with his kitten👍👍

This is so much more compact and easy to understand than some of the other videos I saw that used complicated tools and/or multiple people!

Thank you for showing and explaining how it’s Done!! Excellent video! Cute kitten!

Tack! Äntligen en bra video som demonstrerar denna tekniken i mer detalj! Mycket bra jobbat

Very labor intensive. But great job!

🎉Wow anothere rooe making ideaa👍😍💕😊😊thank you for sahring.👌👌👌❤️

Thanks you for making this informative video i’d learned another technique in making rope👍🎊👍👍✌️

Thank you! 👍

Good call. It would have been extremely rude to make the kitten get up to get your knife.

Now I understand. In the Middle Ages rope was made by cats.

Thanks, was looking for information like this!

This is great, thanks.

very good demonstration

Brilliant. Thank you

Excellent, thank you

I don't have access to a cat. Does it work just as well if you chew on it yourself, instead?

Thanks!

Must wear also a medieval dress

It is my understanding that in ropemaking "countertwisting" is important, which is twisting the rope together in the opposite direction that you twist the individual yarns. Pretty much anywhere you look up rope mentions this countertwist and its importance. Yet this method and making rope with a spinning club seem to work even though they spin the whole rope and the individual yarns the same way. Is countertwist not that important? Or is this type of rope weaker in some way than countertwisted rope? Even if it is weaker it's still a very useful method for making rope since you can do it alone and indoors. Also the fact that you can even start with fibers and feed them in as you go which seems harder/impossible using the rope walk method which I've only really seen used starting from yarns, I've never seen it used to wind the yarns themselves.

This is fascinating. How long does it take you to produce, say, 5 meters?

Hello, could you give me a reference for the 1350 crank you show at 0:32 please? Thanks in advance

I like your tunic where did you get it? Are you selling any tunics?

Did you make this reel yourself? When I try to Google it, I just find fishing reels or more complicated looking yarn skeiners.

Excellent. Thank you.

what the..... hell?

I've seen people using a reel like this to make rope, but no one ever stopped and explained what they were doing. Thanks for that.

I have never seen rope made like this before, only with some strange toggle things and later with a hook or crank. I have to try this way of spinning! Looks so fun and soothing

I have never seen this technique before, that’s simple, yet a very clever and faster than the previous form (probably) of twisting and turning by hand, thanks for sharing and love your cat XD

Wonderful! Can you provide dimensions of your rope making jig. I'd like to make one. Thanks!

Really annoying cute kitten.

1:46 there's a bee singing into your microphone 🐝

Well done, sir. Makes rope making from bast so clear. Very clever!