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I love that bit about the cat. My cat's a chewer and he will shove his mouth in anything. He'll even chew open a loaf of bread and take ONE BITE and leave the rest to go stale and attract flies!!!!

Everytime i try and learn something about some prehistoric technology, i sooner or later always end up on your channel. Thank you so much for posting all these, its so nice to have the ability to look something up that interests you and getting answers, thx for providing tgem

Congratulations!

I enjoyed the process, the tasting, but I prefer a faster method and no animal fat in my 600 years old recipe soap.- not hot method either. Why do people think that bubbles are so important? they have no cleaning properties

I heard that if you get splashed wash it off for 15 minutes then if that doesnt work, seek medical attention. 😮

I like watching ur vids!

You know this is amazing! THANKS!

For the natural dyeing community: I took horse chestnut leaves, steeped for a day then boiled them. After cooling, I took four pieces of cotton material. Took a portion of the boiled water sans leaves, and put it in separate glass jars with three modifiers: a) no modifier - 4hours: colour was a beige/sand/slightly grey colour, 24Hrs the same but darker. b) minor amount of vinegar that had aluminium foil in it for several weeks -4 Hour soak: colour bright yellow, 24H soak: deep mustard colour c) soda ash: 4Hours - colour light orange, 24Hr - burnt orange d) drops of iron acetate (nails in vinegar over weeks), 4hrs - dark grey, 24hrs - very near pitch black. What an amazing array of colours from one source. Its clear the PH is the game changer here, and the leaves, bark and etc seem rich in tannins.

*Can you make soap using beeswax as the primary fat?*

I just realized why I was called a towhead as a child. I had no idea why it was a word to describe my hair/head and only thought of a big toe being a similar shape as a child's head. Cool! I never watched a video about this subject and am happy to watch more.

Hello! Love your videos. Today I made my first attempt at string of nettles. However, I did it from memory after watching one of your videos yesterday and now when I watched this video I realized that I completely missed scraping off the outer layer. Then I understood why it was so difficult to make a flexible string. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

At the same time, giving your hands an exfoliate ❤😂🎉

An old laundry mangle would work wonders for flattening the stems

Thank you Sally. In your first soap video you mentioned doing you were doing your PHD. How'd it go? I remember watching that video and being excited about what you'd have to say about the history/origin of soap. Many thanks for all the wonderful videos and information 😊

Hey is It alright if some dirt gets mixed in with my woodash?

Thank you for making this wonderful video. It is maybe the best instructional video I have seen on RUclips. I've been wanting to make some simple leather shoes for years and I after watching this video I am going to give it a try. You are a very good teacher.

This is not in either of my netmaking books! Thanks for this as always!

What is the best time to get nettles? Right now most of them are purple colour and not that big!? Will that work? Thanks in advance

Today is 'the day before summer solstice' again and I harvested part of the nettles from my 'nettle patch' at the allotment garden. I started processing, but had to watch the video again to remind me what to do in which order ...

The cat provides a nicely contrasting background that makes it easier to see what you're doing.

I’m Navajo and just dug up some narrow leaf yucca root for hair washing. Other tribes in the area have used it for millennia! A little maceration and water and you have shampoo or body wash. Very effective! Other tribes used soap lily. This was fun to watch though. When I get a fire pit going I’ll try this! Axhe’hee.

Nowadays it is very easy to read instructions in Chinese or any language for that matter. Simply take a photo and then load it into the Google Translate App and the text will be translated to whatever language you want. The translations are usual much better than those provided in the instructions!

I live in North Carolina, And study primitive arts under Doug Meyer, and have recently passed a personal goal of 1000 feet of Processed refined cordage. Recently discovered a patch of wood nettles, went to this demonstration and came away with some amazing results.

Great, thank you

Thank you so much! Awesome video 💛

I love this video. You've been methodical, patient, and thorough. You can absolutely do a few things to refine the process within historical norms. However, you have definitely explored the gradients on the way.

I love this video. You've got a fantastic attitude to experimenting.

What a stunningly beautiful woman you are. Gotta watchmore videos.....

This looks perfect for my daughter to move up from plastic loop weaving.

thanks so much for posting! very helpful as I am learning to weave in Eastern Quebec, Canada!

Thank you 🎉so much

It's quite lovely! Thank you for sharing it!

Just started following your experiments today. Your work has been excellent and very informative. One thing I noticed is that when you tie your twine you have not used constrictor knots insinuations that would be appropriate. Constrictor knots have the virtue of remaining tight when other ties lossen with time and vibration.

Hi Sally ❤. You do use Fruit ash to make soap? or should the entire piece of wood be used? Hopefully I'm not confusing you.

Hi Sally ❤. Your beautiful! Congratulations 🎉😚❤️💯😁!!!

So good to see you. I am really envious of your course, even the little bit you’ve done sounds amazing. I live quite close by and I would have gate crashed if I had heard you all in the woods! All good wishes for the rest of your course.

Am i right in think that I could use a simple mini rigid heddle to create a band at the top? I think i'm.mentally allergic to tablet weaving.

As I know, the soap need to wait quite some time for aging. I don’t really know for what but I saw it in many videos about natural soap making. Oh, and you forget to mention the most important ingredient for the historical soap-making! The Elbow Grease!😂

Found this after Stefan Milo's video on the batons . Good to see the possibility in action ruclips.net/video/Q8X9l42ZgsU/видео.htmlsi=RM7ccCCAi5-atWA5

That was GREAT !!

Here is another way these batons may have been used: search for Rope making stick/club by Mark the braider.

I wouldn’t think that you’d have to twist in the opposite direction to create the ply - the twist in the individual strands will want to unwind itself, and will create the ply in the opposite direction.

What happens when it fully drys and it’s more brittle after it’s been make into cordage

What happens when it fully drys and it’s more brittle after it’s been make into cordage

I love your videos, and you are such a sweet person, always with a little smile! You are also very good at explaining things without using intellectual words, despite you being an academic 👍🏾

Hay! Try hand twisting enough raw fiber to tie around your toe and have a lead. Make sure the lead is tight within a one hole baton. Make a single string by turning the baton one way continually while masaging new fiber to the lead. Just a thought.

Just learned about this coffee after listening to a book about ww2 US POWs in Europe talking about how it was the only kind of "Coffee" they would get and sometimes their only source of water, being that they were prisoners in late ww2 and the wretched treatment by the Germans.

Great skill. About 50 years ago I got into doing some leather work. Bought a copy of Bruce Grant's Leather Braiding Encyclopedia, but never made much progress.

I often wonder what would have been used in Australia

Reminds me of the time I was walking along a Canal where the weeds had been "weed wacked". Looking down, I thought I saw a bundle of frayed plastic cord. It turned out to be the Fibers from a cutdown Thistle Stem. Those Fibers were rather strong !