Making linden bast and cordage
Linden trees (tilia) are somewhat rare in the forests around here, but I came across one one that was felled by a storm. I harvested some of its bark, let it ret in a nearby pond for two months, and produced a nice amount of linden bast from it.
0:00 intro
0:11 harvesting linden bark
1:55 retting the bark in a pond
3:27 extracting the bast
5:44 twining bast cordage
6:30 improving my bark sandals
7:33 outro
This gave me the opportunity to improve my willow bark sandals from an earlier video ( • Making primitive bark sandals ) by replacing the laces with smooth and pliable linden bast cordage.
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