#also I'm European so flax is native ofc

[myrthing]

Extremely charmed by this post, as a non-crafter who periodically gets into the hypotheticals of prehistoric clothing and textile manufacture. It's almost enough to persuade me to get into natural fibre. I say almost because I know myself very well, and this is like the third time I've thought about making my own string and rope. And it's February.

I'll probably stick to foraging for edible plants, that's keeping me busy enough, especially in spring. But I'm reblogging this to keep it in the back of my mind, in case I ever do get the urge to make nettle textile.

it's definitely my predisposition to extreme frugality+redneck engineering, but i'm now obsessed with creating things literally without buying Anything. no supplies no tools no nothing, only the stuff you can just find outside, like Plants, Sticks, and Rocks.

I'm making textiles with nothing but foraged plant materials using no tools except sticks. Nature allows you to do this! There's no rules! I mean okay well maybe there might be some rules sometimes but they're just weak human rules! The plants themselves? They're like "Why sure! You can make yarn with nothing but fibers from the dead stem I don't need anymore, a couple sticks from that tree over there, and your own body and mind! Why not?"

Plants like to give us gifts! And nobody has the power to stop them!