Morphy wrote on Jul 25
th, 2020 at 7:57am:
It’s amazing to me that 5 leaves was enough for that. The video says it is processing so I can’t watch it at the moment but is the fiber really like flax? Like hair fine to where it could be spun? I would love to save money and spin my own high quality cordage for braiding.
Yeah, like I said though...barely. I'd say 6 would have safely been enough to finish it. The video should be up now. I put my computer to sleep before it had finished uploading...oops.
Some of the fibers are very coarse, these are the ones that are very easily extracted. The parts from the leaf that you have to scrape are much finer. It must be similar to flax, but I doubt it is as fine as the flax for linen. I watched a really neat video on how flax is made into thread and woven into linen. Those fibers are very fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nspGz6xYzvghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gDWuWT23x4& Quote:The fiber looks a lot like yucca. Extraction process very similar. Yucca leaves are quite wide, so I split them in half before scraping. Never tried length wise. If that works it would speed up t he extraction process.
Yes, I would assume it is very similar. The fibers when dried are still quite pliable. I didn't have a problem with them becoming brittle yet.