How to Make Your Own Rope / Cordage!

Saturday has come again and today we're looking at a basic outdoor skill that is actually really easy, yet rarely used by most people. Making your own cordage/rope (I use them interchangeably), is one of the easiest things to do in the wild if you know how. I'm going to demonstrate here the reverse wrap and show how to peel the inner bark (phloem layers) from a vine.



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[AnchorJG]

Every rope-making video I've seen starts with string or twine or something that's already basically rope. You actually started with nothing, found a vine and showed how to get to where everyone else was starting.

Thank you.

[peanut-.-]

Dang, I’ve always wondered how they made rope, thanks for showing me, I’ll be sure to try it with my shoelace xD

[Hazfb]

Finally a video that does it from scratch

[strxkereye]

it warms my soul to see you show your passion from one human to another

[justoalejandrogonzalez]

This video, the skill and the concept behind of the channel. Just freaking great.
Thank you for sharing!

[EokaBeamer]

I watched the video 3 years ago and have now developed my own technique to make smaller ropes. It is a combination of what you show here and a ropewalk. So I will get 4 strands, mostly pre-made jute twine and tie them to a tree or chair in my house. I will tie 2 strings each to a pen or stick and twist them individually clockwise. Then I will take both sticks into my hand and twist them together counter-clockwise. Tie off the ends and I have a nice bit of rope.

I hope this technique is something you didn't know before and that you may try it out and show it to the people. :)

[mofojackson]

I love stuff like this so much! My family and I spend an hour or so every week on survival topics and skills, especially given how bad things are looking for our nation, and videos like this are so great!

[williamvesey]

Came here because I'm writing a novel set in medieval Japan and in my research I read that cliffside board walkways were held together with wisteria bark. Very informative demonstration, thanks!

[lewissaunders]

Your channel should have millions of subscriber you teach people useful things

[ScrootanBootan]

For god sake why does this have 700 views and 27 comments? It needs more

[taylorm.]

Thanks! Going out into the woods and doing stuff like this is whats keeping me sane in quarantine

[epauletshark]

Glad that you are showing how to do it from scratch, so many other videos on ropemaking require rope or string to start it.

[billiegoat]

Hosting my own Wisteria Cordage workshop on my farm this weekend thanks to your informative blog and videos! Thank you kindly for passing on the knowledge 🙏

[colemccoy]

got to appreciate the old ways of doing things, and the people who maintain them, thank you sir.

[jadam]

Thanks for the video. I've got Chinese wisteria growing & just used to make wreaths with my pruning. Now I'll be making ropes. 👏👏

[voidlifeRS]

I have recently hand carved a wood pipe from a tree branch that fell in my back yard, wanted to make some rope to wrap around the stem. Thank you for the lesson

[MUSTASCHO]

How many thousands upon thousands of strings and ropes must our ancestors have made before they found optimum techniques like this. And now we can learn it at the touch of a button. Thank you kindly for sharing.

[strangebird]

Thank you sir for you cordage lesson. I have to go out and give it a try. Many thanks! 👍

[Chebva]

Rope making is an essential part of wilderness survival. Fantastic video.

[IRY]

Great video man this is the best tutorial I could find on this website everybody else moved too fast and don't like to verbally explain at all for some reason