Rope No.27

Plant - Seaweed, wrack
Location - On the high tide line, rocky shore
Notes - Thought I would have a go at trying ropes with seaweed, they
shrink by a huge amount so need to be made when they are nearly dry
and still pliable

Rope No.26

Plant - Silver Birch
Location - Woodland planting
Notes - The stems are long, thin and flexible and lovely to work with
also they are a beautiful red against the white trunk

Rope No.25

Plant - Bog Myrtle
Location - Boggy ground where the heather is allowed to grow long
Notes - Struck by the red colour of the new buds and stems in the sun

Rope No.24

Location - Overgrown walled garden
Plant - Bindweed
Notes - Cutting willow in this overgrown garden noticed these delicate
white line drawings from last years bindweed being lit in the sun

Rope No.23

Location - Heather moorland behind the house
Plant -  Heather
Notes - Am enjoying taking the same material each day and making ropes
of different characters, length and thickness

Rope No.22

Location -  Heather moor with the white grass growing amongst it
Plant - Heather
Notes - Nice to try and make different thicknesses of rope, it seems more
plyable than I expected

Rope No.21

Location - Heather moor beside the house
Plant - Purple moor grass, which is beautifully white at this time of year
Notes - This grass forms these lovely clumps with long strands which make
really nice rope any thickness, this one is longer as I wanted to make some
longer lengths

Rope No.20

Location - Amongst my willow patch
Plant - Bramble
Notes - Heard about this being used for baskets once the spikes are cleared

Rope No.19

Location - Trees in the garden
Plant - Silver Birch
Notes - This is the right time to cut the small twigs for making rope
when the sap is risen and before the leaves are out. We can feel spring
something tangible with the light

Rope No.18

Location - Stray bits of grass blown to the roadside
Plant - Purple moor grass
Notes - Working with making thin rope using found stray bits of grass
something very satisfactory about this

Rope No.17

Location - Verge beside the road fallen from garden hedge
Plant - Small bit of honeysuckle
Notes - Nearly walked on this small bit of white stalk, thought it needed to
be made into a short length of rope

Rope No.16

Location - The same moss clump amongst the heather
Plant - Polytrichum commune, Hair Moss
Weather - cool, grey turning to white, still
Notes - Really like making a very thin rope, so am doing this again, there is
something beguiling about the thin drawn line