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yucca fiber string ??
mullet:
Pat, I use it green. I hold it flat and run it back and forth over the edge of a board or table to loosen it up. Then I pull the threads out like you would with backstrap sinew.
Hillbilly:
I usually do it like Eddie said. If you want really good clean fiber, you can boil it for a little while and every bit of the green gunk will come off and leave just the clean white fiber. Seems to strengthen it a little, too. Yucca fiber isn't as strong as dogbane or milkweed, (at least the variety we have here isn't,) but it makes good cordage.
El Destructo:
The Yucca Fibers from the Texas Yuccas are so tough that you can litterally take one...and some sand...wet it...add the sand...and saw through a Board with it...the Native Indians here used to use it (if you strip it right you keep the leaf point with the Fibers to make a sewing kit) for sewing Braintan...and other Hides to make clothes...and themselves when injured...so I have read and been told....... ;)
Boots:
thanks guy's I have an endless supply around the house. I'll see what I can do with it..
JustinNC:
sounds like I need to do some collecting next time I am in Eastern New Mexico visiting the wifes relatives.
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