Welcome to The Aboriginal Art of String Making page

How to prepare the fibre so it will make professional string. 

All the info in this download is from my own lifes' practice making artefacts or just lovely nice string for crafts people..

These technique carry through to most bush fibre processing.

I use Beach Hibiscus (Cotton tree).

As it dries it takes on different shades and colours...

 It takes a little practice but the technique is pretty straight forward. 

Just have to get the hang of it and it's easy...

Watch the video as you do it a couple of times.

Once you start experimenting you will be amazed by the potential string making materials all around you.

They just need to be collected, dried, dampened, fibres separated and then used...

Or better still...Recognise them lying on the ground perfectly dried and cured waiting for you...

(From appropriate places of course)

Many, many grasses will work fantastically.

Enjoyable, relaxing, creative...

Without getting scientific

If you twist a fibre until it's tight and bend it in half, there is nothing that will stop that fibre from twisting around itself to become string.

From the smallest grass to the thickest bark to the tiniest silver wire, all string is made using this principle

Sources of fibre like :

Wattle Tree Bark.

Fig tree bark.

Palm trees grow everywhere, their leaves and and branches have long fibres. 

Everything you need to make string is in the videos and files.