Harvesting Lime Bast for Cordage and Basketry

Harvesting Lime bast at Froe Wood Coppice. The bark is stripped from felled trunks and branches then retted to release the fibrous strips of bast, a versatile natural resource used since prehistory and idea for cordage and basketry. This is hedge-bothering on an epic scale for me!
Lime (Tilia cordata) is also known as Linden and as Basswood in different regions.