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Tamara Wilder
August 18–19 • 9:00 AM Saturday – 4:00 PM Sunday • $225 ($215 Members)
Includes $20 per person materials fee.
The knowledge of how to ply fibers into usable lengths is one of the most basic, essential, and important of human life skills, and yet most modern people find this requisite art strangely absent from their personal skill set. Cordage (string) and rope have long been utilized and treasured by humans from every part of the world as tools in fishing and hunting, for carrying burdens, constructing shelters, in textiles, and for tying bundles of possessions together. Join this class to immerse yourself in the world of plant fibers! Learn how to extract high quality fiber from local native and naturalized plants, discuss the processing of fibers in general, and ply those fibers into string, rope, and nets. Participants will have plenty of time to perfect a variety of different cordage methods, make a netting shuttle from oak shoots, use that shuttle to make a knotted net, make a small knotless netted bag, and help make a rope using a basic ropewalk system.
Rustic cabins provide dormitory-style accommodations at the Clem Miller Environmental Education Center, included for all participants.
Also open to youth (age 12-17) with parent attending.
Tamara Wilder
November 17–18 • 9:00 AM Saturday – 4:00 PM Sunday • $225 ($215 Members)
Includes $20 per person materials fee.
Join us and spend some time learning basic and essential living skills through hands-on activities as we explore universal hunter gatherer skills used by humans all around the world in this paleotechnology overview. Participants will learn and practice many skills including: Creating fire with hand drill and bow drill fire kits, making a hand drill fire kit to take home, processing dogbane fiber and string using logrolling methods, learning how to make a netting shuttle and a knotted net. Also, included will be practice with hunting tools such as rabbit sticks and spear throwers, shooting bow and arrow, playing a hoop and pole game, learning basic stone and woodworking techniques through bead making, and shaping and polishing stone. Also included will be grinding nuts, basic wild food identification, and food processing techniques using stone mano and matate and mortar and pestle.
In this extended weekend format, participants will be introduced to and will discuss a wide variety of other primitive technologies as well as some of the uses of local plants. This will be an incredible opportunity to move a step closer to self-sufficiency and to an understanding of how humans have thrived for tens of thousands of years with primitive technologies, the very first technologies, as their tools.
Participants are encouraged to bring something home-grown or gathered for Saturday’s potluck dinner.
Rustic cabins provide dormitory-style accommodations at the Clem Miller Environmental Education Center, included for all participants.
Also open to youth (age 12-17) with parent attending.
We offer gift certificates for specific classes or the dollar amount of your choice. Email or call 415.663.1200 ext. 373 and we can create a certificate for you to give as a gift.
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