Ray mears shows how to make the best cordage from nettles

[hawgrider]

Mears picks a batch of tall nettles and strips them with ease, without receiving so much as a minor sting from the plants. He handles them with the confidence of experience, and shows how you too can make outstanding cordage from their fibers.

http://www.wideopenspaces.com/survival-guru-ray-mears-shows-make-best-cordage-nettles/





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQHvqWCN5Eo

[Unclefred]

I hate those things. Evrry spring I go to war against them on my creek bottom. Cool vid though.

[TJC44]

So those damn things do have a use.
I'm reading one of his books on bushcraft in the north now.

TJC