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TOMBELAINE Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 516 france Gender:	Re: Vegetius (and Virgil) on sling material: linen or wool (wool best) Reply #75 - Oct 8^th, 2021 at 10:13am Waouhh !
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Thearos Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Take that Posts: 3368	Re: Vegetius (and Virgil) on sling material: linen or wool (wool best) Reply #76 - Oct 8^th, 2021 at 12:51pm So that's what yarn made with goat hair looks like ?
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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4448 Finland	Re: Vegetius (and Virgil) on sling material: linen or wool (wool best) Reply #77 - Oct 11^th, 2021 at 3:35pm Apparently so.
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TOMBELAINE Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 516 france Gender:	Re: Vegetius (and Virgil) on sling material: linen or wool (wool best) Reply #78 - Mar 7^th, 2022 at 10:56am I found goat hair, the long outer hairs. Hard to work by hand. The result is solid but easily undone. I think we should use all the hair, the wool too. My incompetence can also explain the result.
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Reply #79 - Mar 8^th, 2022 at 7:17am

Yesterday, I showed you my first twist. With the second twist, the rope holds better.
In front of is nettle. This makes it possible to compare with the same manufacturing process.
I think that I must try to twist the goat hair with a fusaiole.

https://fr.timesofisrael.com/une-collection-de-mode-decouverte-ou-salomon-exploi
tait-des-mines/
A link in french with a photo of a rope made with goat.

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David Morningstar Forum Moderation Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 3374 UK	Re: Vegetius (and Virgil) on sling material: linen or wool (wool best) Reply #80 - Mar 19^th, 2022 at 9:07am I'm dropping in a link to this post, since it is on the same topic: https://slinging.org/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1640892005
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TOMBELAINE Funditor Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 516 france Gender:	Re: Vegetius (and Virgil) on sling material: linen or wool (wool best) Reply #81 - May 12^th, 2022 at 2:24am Here are my two attempts. Strong but difficult to keep tight. I think all the hair is necessary to make a rope.
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