Sling made from natural fibers
Sling made following the Primitive Technology YouTube channel design.
Fibers foraged from goldenrod (Solidago canadensis). Fibers extracted raw by scraping outer bark and splitting into thin ribbons then left to dry.
Cordage made from simple reverse-wrap technique.
Goldenrod might not be a widely used plant for fibers but I think it worked quite nicely for this project. The plant is easy to find and easy to process. The fibers are quite long and strong, with one of my test strings being able to lift up to 40 pounds. The two downsides I found to this plant is that the fibers are pretty coarse, not very suitable for finer threads and that the yield per stem is pretty low with only 6-12 ribbons on average.
Have any of you ever used this plant in cordage project or heard of it used historically?