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Sweet! The golden rod looks best, aesthetically speaking. What will you use them for? I thought it was funny to see the nice, neatly twisted rows of cordage, then I scroll down to the deer sinew and it looks like a tornado damaged birds nest, lol!"The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee
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Dogbane milkweed and sinew are the best I’ve come across so far too. The grapevine I’ve braided ended up kinda brittle once dried. I’ve never tried goldenrod for cordage either. They all look like you did a great job toocall me Jay, i live in R.I.
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Hey Jay, You know that tanned leather is kinda weak. I was surprised how strong a small strip of rawhide is. It's a lot tougher than tanned leather from the same hide.
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I use raw hide too, it’s way stronger than tanned leather for sure! Try wetting some a little bit till it just becomes manageable then braiding that up, you could hang off of it
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I’ve tried red cedar strips, if you get it just right you can pull off pretty sizable strips, then you clean it kinda like dogbane, you just work your way down the strip pulling off random bark and thick sections to even it out, then knee roll and braid like normal. I found it kinda flakey though. I’m sure the natives had their tricks cause I’ve read it was often used. I bet it works like the dogbane in the sense that it can be wet and dried over and over without falling apart.
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i love making cordage
Ron you should try stinging nettle
kind of a bugger at first to work,until you get the stingers off of it,but makes some super strong cordage
my wife has a couple of plants in the back yard,nl idea what they are
but i noticed that the long narrow leaves looked quit fiberous (is that a word?)
so i yanked one of and gave it a try
amazingly strong,but kind of a bugger to process as the leaves are narrow and the other material that makes up the leaf is also tough
waiting for them to go dormant and then i will try again
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The patch of dogbane out in my woods woods is choking itself out. I went the other day to harvest some. There’s still a bit of it growing there but the patch just isn’t what it was. This next season I’ll have to gather up some pods and try transplanting some somewhere else.call me Jay, i live in R.I.
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