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Coconuts? Nah ask any invading mongel with a horse hair allergy whether he would prefer coconut halves or a shaved horse and the horse gets cold every time. That's how they got round the great wall, people fled before the sneezing as they were afraid of catching it. As to hair slings I haven't made one yet but have been saving up my own combings, it's been a few months but I think I may have enough for a very simple split sling, not even a braided one just like two strings, but am waiting untill I have more cordage skill as it takes so long to collect. I twisted a litttle of it up and it is really strong, something the thickness of the jute garden twine would cut your finger open before it broke. I have read somewhere ( sorry can't remember the source ) that human hair has the same tensile strength of aluminimum.
I'm a novice on the craft side of things so if anyone has a suggestion for a material I can practice on before using the slow to replace stuff I'd be grateful, horse hair is much thicker.
It's not that slow though, you'd be amazed how much falls out each day when you save it up. I'm only keeping the stuff from the hair brush but if I could work out a way of cleaning the stuff from the vacume cleaners brush I could probably get as much again. My own hair is medium long and my guess is I could make a braided sling a year Quite like the idea of slinging with something made totally from my own body, ok so I'm weird, but with the help of friends and familly collecting wouldn't take long at all. Some of the ancients thought it the best material of the lot. Worth doing and can't complain about the price.
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