How To Make Natural Cordage From Willow Bark

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I spent some time with the amazing team over at Wilderness Pioneers based in beautiful Oxford (UK) learning different techniques for making natural cordage

In this video instructor Mark shows step by step how to make natural cordage from Willow bark

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To watch the other videos in this series of natural cordage tutorials:

Hope you enjoy the video and as always I sincerely appreciate you watching

Peace

Zed

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[VortymLichbane]

Loving your natural cordage series, Zed. Thanks for sharing the knowledge :-)

[StarMountainHikes]

Who would have thought that making natural cordage would be so fascinating. Good stuff.

[clambarn]

Great video from gathering to finished product.

[TJackSurvival]

More great knowledge with outstanding videography.

[myemail]

I take it you have all ready started making cord for your base camp as it takes a while to get a nice amount done. Looking forward to see what your cord will be used for at your base camp. enjoying these cordage short films.

[Joe_Sant]

Great video Zed. Mark seems a really nice fella. Great team at Wilderness Pioneers.

[MegaDapperman]

Great series. It will be interesting to see you put it into practice on your base camp build.

[MelanieRiley-ltrl]

loving the videos . keep up the fantastic work x

[WayneTheSeine]

Who needs salt and pepper with all that gravy? Amazing stuff. Your willow seems much different than ours here in the southern US but I understand the same can be done with our species as well. What a great channel....showcasing other peoples bushcraft skills. I am very new to this and it should keep me enthralled for some time. When the weather gets better I will have to give this a try. Thanks you for sharing such wonderful skills and helping to preserve humanities ingenious methods of staying alive in a world it seems we are not equipped to deal with other than by our wits.

[corvusduluth]

Another well done video, dense with instruction, presented in a manner easily understandable. Thank you Zed, and thanks to Mr. Mark.

[WiltshireMan]

A very interesting series Zed. I look forward to seeing you put the chordage to use in your base camp.
Sandy

[miguelperez]

Thank you for showing your vidios a greeting from spain

[TheRedhawke]

Another excellent learning video Zed. Thank you both.

[SouthernRebelRanger]

Zed after you get all this cordage made you'll have enough rope to equip a windjammer! Another great video, keep them coming!

[robertkirk]

I have made this before using the "our man Mears" method (don't we just love the guy) and it's a faff, however it is quite satisfying knowing that you have actually done it, I did not get to use it so I have no idea how long it would have lasted but I wish I had used it for a Knife lanyard or similar, Since losing my left thumb some years ago (fighting lions, tigers and bears don't you know??) tasks like this are quite impossible now as unintentional clumsiness is still very painful. So! another stunner Zed (as always) keep em coming and see you on the next one, Regards, your mate Bob.

[robertbritton]

Great video yes it was a little long but to be honest I preferred that and found it really informative great Vid Zed

[paganoutdoors]

awesome tutorial zed, they are cracking bunch of lads, definitely projects soon..

[stephenrichardsonmicro-adv]

Looking forward to seeing your cordage at your new base camp!

[foxxmulder]

It would be useful to know what the different types of  willow tree look like, and where to find  them.

[dutchcourage]

Hiya m8, turns out i use my list on youtube more than my favorites list, so it turned out i had already missed new episodes while i was hoping to get into your channel ... so I decided to just subscribe and make sure i keep up. Tnx for sharing this ... would also like to have you know that 'we' (us dutchies) use the Knotwillow (i think we may just cut the main trunk of the willow at an easy height ones it's established) From this 'knot' the willow will start to produce the 'sun shoots'. Then you cut those shoots off at the end the year, tie them together and dump them in a stream, the bark will then rot off during the winter, and the sugars will leech out. You take the shoots out in the spring, clean them all of in the stream (best is to keep them under water, but you can let them dry for easier storage, and you can use these shoots to weave baskets (best i think is to re-soak them so they are wet and easy to twist). The tree will produce new shoots during the year, and you cut them off at the end of the year and repeat the process. (you can even let them grow for a 2nd year to make pretty straight spears or broom sticks. harvest them earlier for really fine weaves, and the willow also make great arrows). Only think i am not sure of is if we use an actual knotted species or if the knot just comes from cutting the trunk and then cutting the shoots off every year, but as such this tree grew on the edge of every field next to the 'irrigation ditch/aka stream', and weaving was a summer activity after the sowing in spring, to keep income coming into the farm while the crops were growing...