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Best ever topics in plant fibers

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Linen Flax - Flax plant for spinning and weaving

204 replies [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ] 24 62 62

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Nettle-A-Long, harvesting stinging nettle yarn

141 replies [ 1, 2, 3, 4 ] 14 66 64

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Growing Cotton in The Great White North - Yes, it is possible to grow cotton in Canada!

92 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 6 29 25

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Home processing Cotton and Linen on a small scale

45 replies [ 1, 2 ] 10 22 14

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Flax to Linen group of Victoria made a movie for you!

39 replies 3 3 10

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Plant fibers for clothing

34 replies 7 16 11

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What are "natural fibers"?

27 replies 1 4 33

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What works for making yarn from plants?

34 replies 1 39 15

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Are any Canadians interested in growing cotton?

54 replies [ 1, 2 ] 5 6

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Turning worn-out cloth into paper....or at least trying to!

11 replies 1 18 15

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Sources for Flax/Linen Processing Equipment

14 replies 15 6

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Crafting with plant residues

17 replies 30 27

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looking for advice on growing cotton

12 replies 4 2

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cloth from kudzu

18 replies 4

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Stone Age (neolithicum and before) techniques

28 replies 2 10 14

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Anyone growing flax this year?

30 replies 5 13

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willow basketry anyone?

80 replies [ 1, 2, 3 ] 4 30 18

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Look! It turned into a fiber garden!

28 replies 1 22 11

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What kind of basket can be made from this?

12 replies 4 2 11

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What to do in winter - growing plant textiles

7 replies 2 1 1

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How to Make a Straw Mattress

30 replies 3 8

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Linen hidden in our vocabulary

6 replies 6

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Growing Milkweed for Bast Fiber

24 replies 11 7

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Narrow leaved plantain for textiles

17 replies 1 12 8

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This is knot a thread (examples of knots in use on the homestead)

14 replies 4 7 19

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Giant Ragweed for fiber?

16 replies 1 13

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Storing stinging nettles for fiber

6 replies 2 4

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Growing and Processing Cotton on a Small Scale

12 replies 3 1

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carefree cool fabrics? teach me

6 replies 3

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What are the rules on foraging materials in the US?

21 replies 9

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Harakeke - New Zealand flax

8 replies 4 3 3

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Using Cottonwood Fiber

10 replies 9 5

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Banana Fibre - useful or not for spinning?

7 replies 2 2

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Twisting a cord for basketry

17 replies 2 3 5

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how to remove mildew from cloth?

7 replies 2 1

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Handmade, hand-gathered local clothing project

11 replies 5 6

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how much flax would I need to grow to make something?

10 replies 4

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retting plants for fibre

13 replies 2 5 3

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Clothes from wood bark

7 replies 5 7

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How to tell if material is natural or not

4 replies 2

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The craft of rope production

9 replies 2 6

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Fluff from Willows and other Trees

11 replies 1 3

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Yucca cordage

10 replies 1 5

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Wierd Plant Fibers: How to harvest?!?!

2 replies 1 4

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The Process of Making Nibutani Attushi - Japanese cloth made from bark

2 replies 1 2

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Cat tail

10 replies 1 2 4

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Launder Beeswax out of Cotton

8 replies 1

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Retting Yucca Leaves

10 replies 1 11 3

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No-Tool Spinning / Twisting a thread.

11 replies 2 3

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Using daylily stems and leaves

5 replies 2

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How much space is needed for flax

6 replies 4

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Burdock fiber

5 replies 3 5

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Local Fibre production with Flax, Nettles, Broom, etc

17 replies 1 1

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Processing foraged common reed for basket weaving

11 replies 2 3

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An Awesome project! Knitted Lace Fence!

1 reply 2

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blue vs. scarlet flax?

5 replies 1 1

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Nettles for Fibre

6 replies 2

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Note to self - make one of these macramé shelf for plants

0 replies 1

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Snake plant: mother-in-laws tongue: sansiveria as fiber

4 replies 4 3

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Wind retting

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