Earth Skills Seven Day Challenge: Day Five Today, we had Carving Night, and a barn full of staff and apprentices making all kinds of things! I found a bundle of Velvet Leaf Stalks that grew in our garden one summer, really tall ones, almost six feet, and I peeled it and buffed it up, and then twisted it up. Its not as strong as milkweed or dogbane when its older, but it is very serviceable, and it is tan and very coarse and uniform fiber that was easy to twist into cord. I put my different cordage lengths together, too, and they are looking good. The display will be coming along soon. Probably Saturday! We will see how it looks! I need to take better photos in regular sunlight, because the halogen lights in the workshop turn everything a little orange/yellow!
Posted on: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 02:47:26 +0000
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