My 18 year old nephew suffered all his life with hay-fever in summer . Last year i got him to sting himself with nettles every time he visited me . This summer he said that his hay-fever is almost gone. Nettles have a antihistamine that helps against hay-fever. Best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪

Thank you for this video. You may not realize this, but nettles also makes a great bowstring!!👍

Very gently, easy, peacefully, educative,... Thank you!

You are very easy on the eyes and a great teacher. Thank you for the video.

Very helpful, clear, concise video. Thank you.

Thank you for the concise explanation of the cordage twist. I have watched, in order of, fifty videos of this process, and came away from all of them wondering what the heck I just watched. Yours is the first which actually explained, in plain English, what was taking place during the twisting. I am so happy to finally understand! Now, it's out to the backyard, to conquer the menacing stinging nettle patch growing around my chicken coup. YAY!

Hi Alexandra. It was a surprise to see a fellow Tracker on KZfaq. Wish you had added how to splice other strands onto the cordage to make it longer for purposes more useful than making a bracelet. We both had a great teacher, so I know you know how to do this. Great video. :-)

Thank you for showing the way to make this , if ever needed for say a bow drill or shelter building i have the knowledge you never know what life hands you .

Wonderful idea, thank you very much!

Hands down, your instructions are the best, clear and easy to remember. Brava young lady. I do hope you do more of this kind as you are a born teacher. 🥰👍💚

I have a big growth of nettles out back of my shop. This demo will help me put them to use. Good info and instruction. Thank you.

Thank you. Really interesting video and very clearly explained. I wish you well.

Brilliant video and you really explained the whole process so easily and I will be having a go. Thanks Mandy UK

School days are the best. One day this skill will benefit me, many thanks for sharing.

Beautifully done, Lexi- as always. I've never tried nettles before.....this was great! Thank you.

We have a "waste area" in the back lot. It used to be full of weeds, some of which were edible. I spread nettles in there until now, they cover it. Very persistent rooted, the planting should stay forever, if trees and shrubs aren't allowed to take over. You can cut nettles two or three times each year so that won't happen. Nettles have so many used, besides just being one of the moos cool plants you are ever going to meet. Eating, yes, but also super plant food! Soak in rain water for a few weeks, or cut them up small and fill a pit or big pot half way, add back soil, and grow a tomato or squash as the nettle matter below composts. Looks like Fiber will be on the agenda as well!

Thanks so much, really enjoyed the demo & explanation. I'm keen to give this a go in Oz, though they don't grow quite so tall...

To keep the cortage going add new fiber in toward the bottom and keep twisting. Start of uneven at the ends so that new strands are staggered for strength purposes.

Wonderful video! I cant wait to see what you make next!

Clear instructions , will have to give it a try, Thank You

I so appreciate your interest and knowledge to share such valuable information, thank you..! 🙂

Oh My God you look just like Jenna Fischer!! 🤩🤩🤩

Good video. It would be nice to see how to join lengths as you go, if possible, so as not to constrained to producing short lengths

I remember me old Pa made nettle soup once - and it were sh!t!!! But, that said, I'm tempted, now that I'm a lot older, to give it another go. He's still kicking, and over 90, so....yeah:-D

I raise it in a raised bed . I dry some. I can some. But when it gets too big to use as such i make string,rope, ect.

i have bad joints, and sometimes will run my hands through nettle, for me it provides some relief for about a week, but the first 4-8 hours kinda sucks bad

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Hubba Hubba and a great video 👍👍👍👍

Cute chick. Nice knowing some are still out there.

When I was younger riding a horse fell face first in a bush of Stinging Nettle... Very painful... I had to be sedated because the pain it was causing. IS there ANYTHING else you can use beside this? Thank you for sharing this wonderful video. Beautiful

start at the top if doing bare handed...was done for thousands of tears

Need to add Nettles to the Farm. Just collected like 3 grams of Thistle seeds. I think I'm going to build a decorticator and a spinning wheel.

Great video, how do you nicely tie the end?

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Nettles are found around old Indian camps, I'm sure they knew what to do with Nettles. I wonder what the tensile strenght is.?

do you know what specied that is? it's very different to the introduced stinging nettle we have in New Zealand urtica dioica and urtica urens.

Just curious why you didn't rett the stalks to remove the celllular tissue and break down the pectin surrounding the base fibers?

How do you add new strands to continue to make longer cordage?

A fancier bracelet has ne'er been cordaged.

How old do you want the nettle to be? Should it still be somewhat green or really dry?

How do you make it longer

but how do you make anything longer than 3-4 feet?

The British stinging nettle doesn't look anything like that. Is this a different type of nettle or ...?

Those stalks are much bigger than what you get in u.k. or Ireland.which country r u in??

You didn't show us how to splice the pieces together.

She's pretty with cute lil lips. 🤭🌲

great information, I did have to speed it up 1.5 though as you Americans talk sooo slow ☺

I bet nettle and garlic pizza would be decent.

My mate Bleddyn told me when I was 16 that he’d give me a fiver if I went over there and intentionally stung my Willy on those nettles. I took the challenge. It wasn’t nice. I’m 51 now. Still no fiver.