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Sally Pointer
Приєднався 27 бер 2010
Sally Pointer brings you objects, skills, and inspiration from the past, to enrich the future.
Find my website at www.sallypointer.com
Sally is a heritage educator, researcher, maker and demonstrator of traditional skills based in the UK, and works with museums and heritage organisations worldwide to promote an understanding of the past through hands on experience.
She posts about ancient technology, craft skills, foraging, food, costuming and some of the adventures she goes on.
Find my website at www.sallypointer.com
Sally is a heritage educator, researcher, maker and demonstrator of traditional skills based in the UK, and works with museums and heritage organisations worldwide to promote an understanding of the past through hands on experience.
She posts about ancient technology, craft skills, foraging, food, costuming and some of the adventures she goes on.
Making Kimmeridge Shale Beads
I've been working with the jet -like material Kimmeridge Shale to make prehistoric style beads.
There is also a video on collecting shale and jet in my previous videos.
I now have a 'buy me a coffee' page which helps fund my ongoing research and the making of these free videos. If you'd like to support me, please visit ko-fi.com/sallypointer Thank you!
There is also a video on collecting shale and jet in my previous videos.
I now have a 'buy me a coffee' page which helps fund my ongoing research and the making of these free videos. If you'd like to support me, please visit ko-fi.com/sallypointer Thank you!
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Soapmaking from Scratch part two: Soft-soap and Bar Soap
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Following on from part one: Making Woodash Lye, this video uses potash lye that has been stored for a full year to make both soft and hard soap, taking inspiration from early Eighteenth Century documented recipes. This is not modern soapmaking! It relies on a lot of manual testing which should only be attempted with caution once you are comfortable with the materials being used. I now have a 'b...
Making Soap Washballs, 16th-18th century style at the Weald and Downland Museum
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I'm at the Weald and Downland Living Museum demonstrating aspects of soap making through the ages with a particular focus on the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Join me for a look around this historic house and a glimpse of the conversations and washballs made today. I now have a 'buy me a coffee' page which helps fund my ongoing research and the making of these free videos. If you'd li...
Making Cordage from Red Deer Sinew
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Sinew from the leg or back tendons of large animals has been a valuable resource since the stone age. it's often used in bowstrings and making bows, but is also excellent as a strong thread for other purposes. Today I am processing fresh tendon into a storable form and pounding it to release the strong collagen fibres which are perfect for cordage making. I now have a 'buy me a coffee' page whi...
Palaeolithic Rope-making Experiment
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There's experimental archaeology in action here at Berrycroft Hub today, where we have been inspired by the recent paper on the Hohle Fels rope-making tool and have tried out our own version. Complete with blooper section where I get my left and right confused and went in the wrong direction, but it works! Original paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh5217?fbclid=IwAR2inzsCTk4IchR-...
Making a Neolithic Netting Shuttle from Antler, and using it with Nettle Cordage.
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Netting shuttles or needles and associated gauge sticks can be traced back into prehistory. One unusually shaped version is associated with the Neolithic and early Bronze Age in Europe. I'm making a version out of red deer antler and testing it on some stinging nettle cordage. I now have a 'buy me a coffee' page which helps fund my ongoing research and the making of these free videos. If you'd ...
Making a Rectangular Net
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Filmed at the Middelaldercentret in Denmark in August 2023, we look at how to set up the starting rows for a rectangular net. This video works well watched with my Making a Net Bag video. ua-cam.com/video/fBnBdnrICQg/v-deo.htmlsi=h_v4Dy82VSxSNncK I now have a 'buy me a coffee' page which helps fund my ongoing research and the making of these free videos. If you'd like to support me, please visi...
Making a Neolithic Thorn Flax Hackle
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In part three of my series on Prehistoric Textile Tools we look at the impressively prickly thorn hackling board. The original tools being explored are from pile-dwelling sites in the circum-Alpine region and are from a time when flax is an important textile crop but many other fibres are still in use, woolly sheep do not develop until the early Bronze Age. This video is part of a series made d...
Making Neolithic Bone Textile Tools
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Bone tools are common finds on prehistic sites, and today we explore a style that have been interpreted as tools for working flax, bark and other textiles. The original tools being explored are from pile-dwelling sites in the circum-Alpine region and are from a time when flax is starting to become an important textile crop but many other fibres are still in use. This video is part two of a seri...
Nettles for Textiles Challenge 2023
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Every year we set a challenge based on using stinging nettles in creative ways. Join in this year's challenge to make a bag or basket using nettle fibres. Useful links: the Stinging Nettle playlist on this channel. Nettles for Textiles website: www.nettlesfortextiles.org.uk Nettles for Textiles Facebook Group: groups/1648679398499874/
Making a Neolithic Textile Tool From Thorns!
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Working from a number of surviving early Neolithic tools from the circum-Alpine Neolithic pile dwelling villages, I'm recreating and testing a textile processing toolkit as part of my MSc in Experimental Archaeology final dissertation. This tool is brilliant for processing bast fibres for high quality cordage, twining and basketry use. I now have a 'buy me a coffee' page which helps fund my ong...
Make a Sprang Bag with Handles: all over holes/ Haraldskaer pattern
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Make a Sprang Bag with Handles: all over holes/ Haraldskaer pattern
Four Strand Braids, flat and round versions
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Four Strand Braids, flat and round versions
Making 4-ply Cordage: Laid Cord vs Cabled Cord
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Making 4-ply Cordage: Laid Cord vs Cabled Cord
Making a Tasselled Belt for a Bronze Age outfit
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Making a Tasselled Belt for a Bronze Age outfit
Stinging Nettle Friendship Bracelet Challenge
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Stinging Nettle Friendship Bracelet Challenge
Hedge-bothering walk filmed on a Blackview phone
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Hedge-bothering walk filmed on a Blackview phone
Harvesting Lime Bast for Cordage and Basketry
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Harvesting Lime Bast for Cordage and Basketry
Make an Anglo-Saxon style Ring Pouch
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Make an Anglo-Saxon style Ring Pouch
A Rummage Through My Fibre & Cordage Stash
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A Rummage Through My Fibre & Cordage Stash
How to 'Run a Heel'. Reinforcing knitting before it needs darning.
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How to 'Run a Heel'. Reinforcing knitting before it needs darning.
I love that bit about the cat. My cat's a chewer and he will shove his mouth in anything. He'll even chew open a loaf of bread and take ONE BITE and leave the rest to go stale and attract flies!!!!
Everytime i try and learn something about some prehistoric technology, i sooner or later always end up on your channel. Thank you so much for posting all these, its so nice to have the ability to look something up that interests you and getting answers, thx for providing tgem
Congratulations!
I enjoyed the process, the tasting, but I prefer a faster method and no animal fat in my 600 years old recipe soap.- not hot method either. Why do people think that bubbles are so important? they have no cleaning properties
Which recipe do you use?
I heard that if you get splashed wash it off for 15 minutes then if that doesnt work, seek medical attention. 😮
I like watching ur vids!
You know this is amazing! THANKS!
For the natural dyeing community: I took horse chestnut leaves, steeped for a day then boiled them. After cooling, I took four pieces of cotton material. Took a portion of the boiled water sans leaves, and put it in separate glass jars with three modifiers: a) no modifier - 4hours: colour was a beige/sand/slightly grey colour, 24Hrs the same but darker. b) minor amount of vinegar that had aluminium foil in it for several weeks -4 Hour soak: colour bright yellow, 24H soak: deep mustard colour c) soda ash: 4Hours - colour light orange, 24Hr - burnt orange d) drops of iron acetate (nails in vinegar over weeks), 4hrs - dark grey, 24hrs - very near pitch black. What an amazing array of colours from one source. Its clear the PH is the game changer here, and the leaves, bark and etc seem rich in tannins.
What a great experiment
*Can you make soap using beeswax as the primary fat?*
Technically I think it's possible as beeswax will saponify, but it's more usual to just use a little to increase the hardness and add texture to a softer soap. I suspect as well as wasting beeswax the end soap would disappoint if it was used instead of fat
I just realized why I was called a towhead as a child. I had no idea why it was a word to describe my hair/head and only thought of a big toe being a similar shape as a child's head. Cool! I never watched a video about this subject and am happy to watch more.
Hello! Love your videos. Today I made my first attempt at string of nettles. However, I did it from memory after watching one of your videos yesterday and now when I watched this video I realized that I completely missed scraping off the outer layer. Then I understood why it was so difficult to make a flexible string. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
At the same time, giving your hands an exfoliate ❤😂🎉
An old laundry mangle would work wonders for flattening the stems
Thank you Sally. In your first soap video you mentioned doing you were doing your PHD. How'd it go? I remember watching that video and being excited about what you'd have to say about the history/origin of soap. Many thanks for all the wonderful videos and information 😊
There should be a paper coming out fairly soon based on some of my recent research.
@@SallyPointer exciting 😊
Hey is It alright if some dirt gets mixed in with my woodash?
You'll get clearer lye if the ash is as clean as possible, the best is made from sifted ash so even the bits of charcoal are removed
Thank you for making this wonderful video. It is maybe the best instructional video I have seen on UA-cam. I've been wanting to make some simple leather shoes for years and I after watching this video I am going to give it a try. You are a very good teacher.
This is not in either of my netmaking books! Thanks for this as always!
What is the best time to get nettles? Right now most of them are purple colour and not that big!? Will that work? Thanks in advance
In the UK they are just coming into perfect condition
Today is 'the day before summer solstice' again and I harvested part of the nettles from my 'nettle patch' at the allotment garden. I started processing, but had to watch the video again to remind me what to do in which order ...
The cat provides a nicely contrasting background that makes it easier to see what you're doing.
I’m Navajo and just dug up some narrow leaf yucca root for hair washing. Other tribes in the area have used it for millennia! A little maceration and water and you have shampoo or body wash. Very effective! Other tribes used soap lily. This was fun to watch though. When I get a fire pit going I’ll try this! Axhe’hee.
Ooh that sounds so interesting! Thank you for sharing ☺️
Nowadays it is very easy to read instructions in Chinese or any language for that matter. Simply take a photo and then load it into the Google Translate App and the text will be translated to whatever language you want. The translations are usual much better than those provided in the instructions!
I live in North Carolina, And study primitive arts under Doug Meyer, and have recently passed a personal goal of 1000 feet of Processed refined cordage. Recently discovered a patch of wood nettles, went to this demonstration and came away with some amazing results.
Great, thank you
Thank you so much! Awesome video 💛
I love this video. You've been methodical, patient, and thorough. You can absolutely do a few things to refine the process within historical norms. However, you have definitely explored the gradients on the way.
I love this video. You've got a fantastic attitude to experimenting.
What a stunningly beautiful woman you are. Gotta watchmore videos.....
This looks perfect for my daughter to move up from plastic loop weaving.
thanks so much for posting! very helpful as I am learning to weave in Eastern Quebec, Canada!
Thank you 🎉so much
It's quite lovely! Thank you for sharing it!
Just started following your experiments today. Your work has been excellent and very informative. One thing I noticed is that when you tie your twine you have not used constrictor knots insinuations that would be appropriate. Constrictor knots have the virtue of remaining tight when other ties lossen with time and vibration.
Hi Sally ❤. You do use Fruit ash to make soap? or should the entire piece of wood be used? Hopefully I'm not confusing you.
Not quite sure what you mean by fruit ash? I use ash from burnt wood for soap
Hi Sally. Yes that's what I meant, burnt wood from a let's say, Cherry Tree? Or lemon tree? Perhaps a lime tree?
I wouldn't use the ash from a Tree that grows Nuts. Because I'm allergic to all tree nuts, shellfish, etc.
Hi Sally ❤. Your beautiful! Congratulations 🎉😚❤️💯😁!!!
So good to see you. I am really envious of your course, even the little bit you’ve done sounds amazing. I live quite close by and I would have gate crashed if I had heard you all in the woods! All good wishes for the rest of your course.
Am i right in think that I could use a simple mini rigid heddle to create a band at the top? I think i'm.mentally allergic to tablet weaving.
You absolutely can
@@SallyPointer You have no idea how happy that makes me.
As I know, the soap need to wait quite some time for aging. I don’t really know for what but I saw it in many videos about natural soap making. Oh, and you forget to mention the most important ingredient for the historical soap-making! The Elbow Grease!😂
Found this after Stefan Milo's video on the batons . Good to see the possibility in action ua-cam.com/video/Q8X9l42ZgsU/v-deo.htmlsi=RM7ccCCAi5-atWA5
That was GREAT !!
Here is another way these batons may have been used: search for Rope making stick/club by Mark the braider.
I wouldn’t think that you’d have to twist in the opposite direction to create the ply - the twist in the individual strands will want to unwind itself, and will create the ply in the opposite direction.
You get a more secure lay with twisting unless you've seriously over twisted the elements first
What happens when it fully drys and it’s more brittle after it’s been make into cordage
It's absolutely fine. For longest lasting strong fully dry the fibre first then lightly roll it to soften before cording it, and the resulting string can be used anywhere you like. I've never found it brittle as long as the fibre is fully mature
What happens when it fully drys and it’s more brittle after it’s been make into cordage
Same answer as in the other post, mature fibre shouldn't be brittle
I love your videos, and you are such a sweet person, always with a little smile! You are also very good at explaining things without using intellectual words, despite you being an academic 👍🏾
Thank you!
Hay! Try hand twisting enough raw fiber to tie around your toe and have a lead. Make sure the lead is tight within a one hole baton. Make a single string by turning the baton one way continually while masaging new fiber to the lead. Just a thought.
Just learned about this coffee after listening to a book about ww2 US POWs in Europe talking about how it was the only kind of "Coffee" they would get and sometimes their only source of water, being that they were prisoners in late ww2 and the wretched treatment by the Germans.
Great skill. About 50 years ago I got into doing some leather work. Bought a copy of Bruce Grant's Leather Braiding Encyclopedia, but never made much progress.
I often wonder what would have been used in Australia
There's a lot of aboriginal knowledge still available, you should be able to make contact with someone still working with local traditional techniques
Reminds me of the time I was walking along a Canal where the weeds had been "weed wacked". Looking down, I thought I saw a bundle of frayed plastic cord. It turned out to be the Fibers from a cutdown Thistle Stem. Those Fibers were rather strong !