Nettle fiber

How to strip and prepare nettles for cordage making - A Bushcraft how-to article

Finally! Five whole days of beautiful summer weather so I got out my floaty chair yesterday and, despite the barely above freezing water temperatures, drifted around on my lake peeling plant fibre for paper. Not everyone gets excited about a proliferation of stinging nettle growing on their property, but I was thrilled to find a lush patch behind my shed. Wearing garden gloves, I first strip the leaves and seeds from the stalks. This removes all the stinging bits. Then with bare hands I…

Spinning straw into gold? Not quite, but spinning the fibers of stinging nettles into textiles or fabrics to make clothing is indeed something special.

A piece of nettle cloth retrieved from Denmark's richest known Bronze Age burial mound Lusehøj may actually derive from Austria, new findings suggest. The cloth thus tells a surprising story about long-distance Bronze Age trade connections around 800 BC. The findings have just been published in Nature's online journal Scientific Reports. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News

Now Stinging nettles are one of my favourite plants that are utilized in many ways here. Most importantly its one of the biodynamic compost plants along with its use in the chooks mash. I also use it like spinach, herb tea, green pasta to mention a few. Stinging nettles (Urtica dioica)is a herbaceous perennial growing to 1.5mt, with coarsely toothed leaves. They can be cut several times in a growing season. They can become invasive and should not be planted near paths. So back to its use as…

Handspun and Handwoven Eco-Friendly Himalayan Stinging Nettle Fabric

Anyone can learn the fairly straightforward nettle fiber processing of extracting fiber from the humble stinging nettle.

Hand knitted Himalayan Nettle Scarf www.panchachuli.co.uk

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Wymondham Arts Centre is staging Unlaced – clothing and the female form, an exhibition of work by Norfolk artists, curated by Krys Leach, from Tuesday 18 September to Sunday 30 September, open daily 10am to 5pm (Sunday 12noon to 5pm), free entry. The exhibition features David Cottrell (paintings), Helen Dixon (ceramics), Krys Leach (paintings), Tracy Myers (prints […]