Smocking pipe

feeds@yuku.com (railgun) — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:30:59 GMT

Hello to everybody.I'm newcomer , and this is my first posting.

I've made this pipe several weeks ago. Material- walnut...

todays baskets

feeds@yuku.com (dliwehtfollac) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:08:00 GMT

this first basket is a grapevine one and my foot is in the pic to compare size (i wear a 14)

this little red basket is made from some red twigs i found on the river i think red osier but im not sure

A question

feeds@yuku.com (Altulus) — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:41:43 GMT

Does any one know how he twins the fibers togheter, becaus I have never seen this way of doing it. It's in swedish but there are pictures so you should understand.

http://www.primitiv.se/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=35

sealing bowls

feeds@yuku.com (BCbud) — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:18:51 GMT

just wondering if wood bowls require a sealant to be safe to cook and eat with.

some new baskets

feeds@yuku.com (dliwehtfollac) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:10:55 GMT

the big grapevine basket with my niece inside i made today....the little red one with the green stripe i made yesterday....the grapevine one withg the handle i made a few days ago and the basket on the floor i didnt make and i dont know how it snuck into my photo....lol

New pottery firing area

feeds@yuku.com (CORDMARK) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:57:19 GMT

Built this a few days ago. It took about 3 days and 2 trips to the home depot. I've got a few pots drying now and i'm going to try it out.

Birch and other bark cordage hair pieces

feeds@yuku.com (hayseed) — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:40:13 GMT

Been crankin' out the sweet hairpieces lately. These 2 are birch, basswood bark (I retted this summer) and walnut bark cordage. Sticks are crafted with multiple species, burls etc.on a lathe by a friend. Check out the star weave...have some double star (pic's later) on the bench right now. Backed them with cow hide sewn with the basswood, no glue. I wear these daily and love that they don't pull my hair. I seem to have started a trend as i have sold nearly a dozen.

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Pinapple leaves

feeds@yuku.com (Altulus) — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:56:39 GMT

I just wanted to hear from you guys, have you ever heard of someone making cordage from pineapple leaves ? I tried it the other day and the result was not that bad actually. A fine, strong thread was the result.

Weird question alert Human hair

feeds@yuku.com (Slidrugtanni) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:56:44 GMT

Alright, here's a question I'm not sure has been asked often. Is there any uses for human hair? I have hair long enough to cover my chest, but if I was to cut it is there any way I could use it for something? Blending it with wool and making a hat out of it has been considered, but I'm unsure if it would prove a good material for that kind of thing. I've heard about people using dog hair and fur for the same thing though, even though it's hardly the same thing.

Temper, temper

feeds@yuku.com (Talzhemir) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:44:50 GMT

David Morningstar asked what proportion of ground fired clay I used as temper. Starting from dry, I use half fired and half unfired. What do you use?

The clay I'm talking about is home-made dug-from-the-creekbed from-scratch clay. I roll it out to 1/4 or so on sheets of foil to sun-dry, then pound it to powder with a rock and sift it. I make maybe 1 1/2 pounds at most at a time.

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??? about dogbane bowstrings.

feeds@yuku.com (madcrow6969) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:46:55 GMT

I have a bunch of dogbane that I have started processing for cordage and am wanting to make a bowstring. I was just wondering what diameter would work best for a 50 pound bow. I did not want to overkill and make it too big or too small.

weekend willow

feeds@yuku.com (stikchik) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:10:22 GMT

So this weekend, we did quite a bit of wondering around but in particular, I gathered some willow. I got a couple different colors, not really sure the technical names of each, but they were beautiful. I have not been on here in quite a while but am excited as I read through older topics and through Jon R's tutorials on his web page to start making my own basket. I thought I would share some pics with you all. Happy Fall!

Soon to be cordage

feeds@yuku.com (madcrow6969) — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:01:41 GMT

I went to my milkweed honeyhole from last year, hoping to get a few hundred stalks like I did last year. I found about three dozen total. What I found this time was dogbane. So I started cutting. Some of the stalks are alot smaller and shorter than I wanted, but I was not about to let the combine get it when they harvest the corn. All together, between what is shown in the chair and what I bundled a few days ago, I have 800 dogbane stalks. Looks like I will be doing alot of twisting...

another new pipe

feeds@yuku.com (Huey Tlatoani) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:51:02 GMT

This one is fired sand tempered clay, half in the coals, half below the coals-led to the strange some black/some brown effect. I don't really mind it. The stem is square in cross section, it's a section of cup plant stem I hollowed out. The feathers are a whole guinea hen wind I dried out.

Cordage first try.

feeds@yuku.com (gm69camaro) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:40:10 GMT

A few pics of some cordage I made from dried spider plant leaves. Maybe not the most traditional material but I just couldn't let it go to waste so I used it for practice before I tried milkweed. I used the reverse wrap method and the two lengths are 8' and 12'. Now I have to find a use for it... Enjoy.

Commercial clay yet primitive construction

feeds@yuku.com (Snowalker) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:11:42 GMT

As the weather is not holding out long enough for me to use my own dug up clay and deer season has put a halt to most everything I decided to use a air drying clay to keep up with the construction aspect of pottery and made these have a look, hope you like them although not fired, any feedback welcome as always.....

Hemp fiber

feeds@yuku.com (bighairyralph) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:07:35 GMT

I posted on the bow string area a few days ago, but it seems that not much is happening over there

Can any body tell me how to seperate the hemp fibers from the stalks? I'm pretty sure that they need to be ret, but, oddly enough, I've never ret anything ('cept some stuff in the back of the fridge). How long does one "ret"? Will I need to beat/pull/twist/ask nicely to get the fibers off?
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Wood firing

feeds@yuku.com (Okwencha) — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:31:33 GMT

I'm interested in learning to fire river clay in the traditional wood fire method. Any help here? Thanks.

Has anybody made cordage from cattail before?

feeds@yuku.com (RCSCC137) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:31:12 GMT

Yeah so I recently discovered that I could make cordage from cattail leaves. It is extremely easy to harvest and process as well as being plentiful. I was wondering if anybody else has made cordage from it before or heard of it?

Advice on cordage materials and drop spinning?

feeds@yuku.com (applateau) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:05:16 GMT

Hi, I'm new around here and just getting started with things Paleo. I am curious as to which materials make the best cordage (strongest, most adaptable, most sought after, finest, etc.). I am trying to figure out which ones I should go out and gather a nice supply of before our weather gets any colder and I lose the advantage of being able to id the plants by their leaves.

I am also curious about whether any solid documentation exists for drop spindle spinning as a...

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