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buger Senior Member Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 273	what was fishing line made Jan 3^rd, 2009 at 7:22pm what material was it made of and how thick was fishing line in the early 1600's
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winkleried Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 1535 Norman Oklahoma Gender:	Re: what was fishing line made Reply #1 - Jan 3^rd, 2009 at 8:06pm I am guessing somesort of water reistant vegtable fiber.........but this is strictly a guess Marc Adkins buger wrote on Jan 3^rd, 2009 at 7:22pm: what material was it made of and how thick was fishing line in the early 1600's
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timann Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 2504 Norway Gender:	Re: what was fishing line made Reply #2 - Jan 4^th, 2009 at 9:11am I have heard about the use of horse tail hair for this, well into the 1900s. Human hair was propably used, too. And stinging nettle fiber, I guess. timann
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Reply #3 - Jan 4^th, 2009 at 10:23am

woven horsehair, Horses tails and manes would have been used.

Althoug in the 1600's you had cotton and silk.
The best fishing line would obviously have been made from braided silk.

Silken thread and cord has been around europe since the middle ages.

If you can find a copy of izaak waltons - the compleate angler it will undoubtably tell you in there.
Try project guttenberg - as it's about 400 years out of copyright

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9198

I'm going with hair and silk.

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Re: what was fishing line made
Reply #4 - Jan 4^th, 2009 at 12:47pm

Other common fibers used for cordage were hemp and flax, both used extensively for bowstrings.
A quick Google of "medieval fishing" yielded several sites; seems hemp and nettle were used to furnish fibers for fish lines. Alas, such things do not survive well....

There are plenty of illustrations of primitive fish-hooks, weights, devices like primitive reels, etc.

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