Day 14: How to make natural rope…
Making natural cordage: It's hard to put yourself in the mind of someone who lives primitively. especially when we forget that primitive technology just means First Technology not necessarily less than technology. Having spent a little bit of time in the jungle with people that were alive prior to First Contact, what they value and what they don't value is of extreme interest to me. A few years ago I had the privilege of spending time with some of the monkey Hunters and native tribes of Brazil. They valued machetes, shorts, cigarettes cooking pots, fire creation tools like the bic and rope. A lot of that makes sense to me automatically and intrinsically. The Rope however was something that caught me off guard. I watched them in awe as they cut down palm trees and created rope faster than a machine using their toes and their hands. They however cherished the role of black rope that we gave to them because it was Stronger than anything that they could make, and we had a lot of it. Rope or cordage is often an overlooked tool that is used to bind things, haft arrows, create traps, repair packs, and do so many other things that come up when you're in a survival situation. Having the ability to create rope from scratch is something that should not be overlooked. There is however a catch, you need the right kind of plant to make rope worth having. It can't just be created from any fiber. In my area of the world Dog Bane Yucca and a couple other plants are my go-to's when creating natural cordage. Natural cordage is extremely valuable with a bow drill, a Paiute Deadfall, other traps like the Mojave Scissor snare and things like an Apache match which is a bundle of juniper bark that holds fire for transport. Even the act of creating a fire smudge out of sagebrush with a natural rope that can be burnt is of value. Learning the reverse wrap, and applying it with natural cordage or even using the bottom of a cut-off T shirt to make rope can be the difference between having a tool that you need in a survival situation and going without. So check out this video and go try this for yourself.
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