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AncientCraftwork Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 2403	Bark Cloth Jul 21^st, 2020 at 5:22am Nature's natural-grown weave
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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3236 Akron NY Gender:	Re: Bark Cloth Reply #1 - Jul 21^st, 2020 at 6:25am Blocked.
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AncientCraftwork Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Posts: 2403	Re: Bark Cloth Reply #2 - Jul 21^st, 2020 at 7:27am slingbadger wrote on Jul 21^st, 2020 at 6:25am: Blocked. Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhznFtHhkBo
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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8239	Re: Bark Cloth Reply #3 - Jul 21^st, 2020 at 9:27am I’ve always wondered how the trees don’t die being completely stripped of bark. Pretty amazing stuff though. First thing that comes to mind for me would be stone pouch and quiver.
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Reply #4 - Jul 21^st, 2020 at 10:48am

Talking of bark clothing...

https://www.google.com/search?q=birch+bark+shoes&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2...

An old Finnish craft (well a lot of Nordic countries I think) is to make stuff out of birch bark by weaving it together. I still haven't made a sling out of birch bark but it's on the list. At the very least I would want to have a go at making a birch bark ammo pouch.

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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 13971 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Bark Cloth Reply #5 - Jul 21^st, 2020 at 1:29pm I wonder what trees in North America could be used for this purpose. I would very much expect that the trees die after being stripped of bark.
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Kick past-moderator Offline Posts: 4465 Finland	Re: Bark Cloth Reply #6 - Jul 21^st, 2020 at 4:51pm If you cut the bark right, birch can survive it.
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Mersa Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Druid Posts: 2616 Australia Gender:	Re: Bark Cloth Reply #7 - Jul 21^st, 2020 at 6:08pm If you damage the cambium the tree will likely die or have a reduced vitality. Contact a local tree worker I’m sure they wouldn’t mind if you stripped bark from some trees that they intended to dismantle/remove. Don’t do this on trees that would be retained.
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Archaic Arms Funditor Offline Testing and inventing "Archaic" weapons. Posts: 765	Re: Bark Cloth Reply #8 - Jul 21^st, 2020 at 7:10pm Very interesting, would love to make some of that as well as know how durable it is. Thank you for sharing.
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Morphy Slinging.org Moderator Offline Checkmate Posts: 8239	Re: Bark Cloth Reply #9 - Jul 22^nd, 2020 at 1:03pm I believe I’ve read that some African cultures would beat the bark off a baobab limb to the point that it would slip off the branch in one piece for making a quiver. I kind of wonder if that would work with other trees. That would be a pretty cool way to make a quiver.
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Mersa Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Druid Posts: 2616 Australia Gender:	Re: Bark Cloth Reply #10 - Jul 22^nd, 2020 at 5:43pm Definitely can beat bark off certain trees in a perfect cylinder. Of corse you need to be able to slide it off so again I’ll state Call a local tree worker and use material that has already been condemned. DO NOT do this to living trees that you don’t own or intend to keep.
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Reply #11 - Jul 22^nd, 2020 at 7:33pm

Mersa wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2020 at 5:43pm:

Definitely can beat bark off certain trees in a perfect cylinder. Of corse you need to be able to slide it off so again I’ll state

Call a local tree worker and use material that has already been condemned.

DO NOT do this to living trees that you don’t own or intend to keep.

That is one thing about shows like naked and afraid where the contestants will cut down a sizable fruit tree just to get a handful of fruit. I get that it’s survival but if indigenous people survived like that they would quickly end up with no resources at all.

I think with something like the quiver you could get away with just using a branch or something. Maybe not the best but at least you don’t end up cutting down a whole tree so there’s that.

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Reply #12 - Jul 22^nd, 2020 at 7:58pm

There are enough trees being cut down in suburban environments as it is, tree workers will likely be pleased if you come and give them a helping hand and remove some of their “waste” as payment. This goes for fire wood , bow staves, Flowers, bark fiber, etc. You wouldn’t believe the amount of good materials we throw through a wood chipper. In Germany a lot of the sizeable pieces are taken to the saw mill, and the smaller debris is chipped and then used in furnaces to make power. Quite a resource that’s largely untouched in Australia. Here it’s pretty much all turned into mulch and left to decompose, then sometimes used as garden mulch. Almost criminal when you know what beautiful straight solid timber goes in to make something that’s not in demand like garden mulch. Sometimes I try to take good wood home but it’s not overly practical a lot of the time.

If you have interests in woodworking and other plant based resources I would recommend getting in contact with a local tree worker. You never know what you might score for nothing.

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Reply #13 - Jul 23^rd, 2020 at 3:20am

A lot of trees got cut down around our area during recent landscaping and they simply left the cut up branches and trunks lying pretty much where they fell. They were there for a good few weeks before they sent a big truck to throw them in the back off so, before they did that, I grabbed a big trunk and carried it home Cheesy

It's now been sitting on the balcony for a while and I'm hoping next year to try and fashion a throwing stick out of it, one of the large style ones. It was almost certainly just going to be chipped or pulped so I thought I would give it a slightly more interesting life before it ends up back in the dirt Cheesy

I'm not sure what type of wood it is and I have no idea if it'll be any good for a throwing stick but hey it'll be good practice on free material Cheesy

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a Senior Member Offline a Posts: 325 a Gender:	Re: Bark Cloth Reply #14 - Nov 20^th, 2020 at 7:23am We call it siapo, it's very labour intensive to make. Most Pacific Islands made it or still do, and used it for clothing, they call it tapa. Paper Mulberry tree is the main one used, and it's cut down and the bark taken off it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapa_cloth
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