Yes - we've a second nettle article planned about non-food uses for nettles.
There was a Nottingham Uni student who was working on nettle fibre to make lingerie. Think it was about 2008.
We were making nettle fibre last summer.. takes a heck of a lot of nettles to make any thing. I think I recall that it takes 30 odd kilos of nettle to make a shirt!
gil
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What were you making with the nettle fibre, windyridge ?
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Nicky cigreen
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I'm not that keen on the taste of nettles - though both nettle beer and nettle pasta are ok.
I've dyed with nettles - next i want to learn how to spin them
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mochyn
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Just put a pot of sooup in the overn: leek, potato, wild mushrooms and nettle. teh apuds were left from last night, the leek is an end that's been hanging round in the fridge, the mush. we picked and dried last year and the nettles I collected just now. And there's a bit of our own bacon in there too.
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naomij
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I'm not that keen on the taste of nettles - though both nettle beer and nettle pasta are ok.
I've dyed with nettles - next i want to learn how to spin them |
I'd like to try this too, but will try wool first!
this site has info on preparing nettles and making nettle cordage
http://www.bushcraft.ridgeonnet.com/Nettle%20cordage.htm
nettle tea is blurgh
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