Cordage and Carabiners

String, twine, rope and load-bearing locking loops are all made according to the same fundamental principles. Humans have been following these principles for thousands of years to make cordage using natural, organic plant materials. We can use natural materials to make beautiful, strong, and very functional string. This string can be used to tie our world together.

Learn to make cordage and carabiners from twisted plant fibers. We’ll learn to identify, harvest, store, process, and use materials like cattails, common milkweed, dogbane, stinging nettles, white cedar, basswood bark, and also birch and alder twigs for cordage, rope, and carabiners. Every participant will make a handmade bracelet, necklace, keychain or carabiner, or two.

2 hours.
$35/student