A number of long green yucca leaves. These then get pounded with a blunt object to bruise them for retting.
The green yucca leaves are in a plastic tub with water. There are some suds, not because there's any detergent, but because the leaves naturally contain saponins. Yes, you can use yucca juice as a cleaning agent.
Queen Felicia, a beautiful white and orange tabby cat, is playing tug of war with a bundle of fibre. This is an important step that helps separate and brush the fibres.
The final fibres. They're a lovely cream colour, and very strong and a delight to work with.
In particular, I've been extracting fibres from yucca leaves recently.
Steps include:
1. Leaves are trimmed and pounded
2. Retting in water
3. Assisted scutching
4. Resulting fibres
Full thread with detailed steps and pictures: cloudisland.nz/@pjf/1135353...
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