How to make a Bushcraft Wreath using Natural Materials 4K

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so although might not look or feel like it it is the Christmas season and I figured today I'd take a walk in the woods and look for some materials to make a wreath first thing I'm gonna grab is a grapevine what I'm looking for is one that's kind of thin and live enough that I can bend it and of course it has to be alive so that it's actually not dried out and it won't crack as soon as I try to bend it you do want to make sure that you avoid poison ivy which has these sort of like hairy tendrils coming off of them so I found a pretty decent thin piece of grapevine it's like a little less than arm's length and now the key is just kinda to coax it to bend and to sort of help with that I'm gonna use a tree and what this tree allows me to do is I can bend the stick and sort of hold it in place so the tree not only gives me leverage to push against so I can conform the vine into a shape I want once I've got it in the sort of hoop shape that I want I can use the tree to keep it here it'll sort of start adjusting to being in this wreath shape if you don't have any good trees to bend your grapevine around you can also take sticks and pound them into the ground so that you can form a sort of frame that'll hold your vine in place [Music]

so the next step is to find some sort of cordage this can prove a little bit challenging in the winter because in the summertime or when things are growing you can find a lot of plants that are really pliable green and have lots of flexible fibers like stinging nettle for example in the winter time it's a little harder to find cordage but there are some options for example you can use dogbane trees that have flexible bark like the papa tree the tulip poplar the american basswood those will all still work really well then this right here is the milkweed and sometimes in the winter you can still get some fibers from this and turn it into cord so when you're harvesting milkweed fibers in the winter you kind of want to crush the stem because the inner layer will still be this kind of like pithy hard layer but on the outside there's these fibers that are pretty flexible and so you kind of want to separate the hard inner part from that outer fibrous layer so we've got this fibrous layer here and what we're gonna do next is sort of twist it until it forms a loop here and then we're gonna take both of these two ends of the fiber and we're gonna twist them both in the same direction you kind of want to start by manually twisting it but then you can kind of like roll it on your thigh to get them both twisted and when both strands are twisted in the same direction the cord will naturally wrap around itself like that now the key to this is that you want to make sure both sides of your rope are an even thickness and if one side gets too thin you can add in some more fibers just so the rope itself is even and doesn't have any weak points now you're gonna need to check your milkweed plants and make sure you're grabbing one that's still got fibers that are fairly intact and not rotted away this late in the season if you can dogbane is another good substitute for that milkweed makes really good strong cord it's actually really durable like it's hard to pull apart and it's really not breaking I'm using all my strength and what the cord is for is to tie the grapevine to itself so that you can secure it in that loop shape and then after that we're also going to use the cord to tie our material to the frame of our wreath so for simplicity sake so that I don't have to cut down every single milkweed in existence we're gonna use some store-bought natural jute so there's a lot of native plants and also plants you can find sitting around in neighborhoods that you can use this one is an evergreen plant called the cedar obviously it's got a very Christmasy feel so we're gonna use some of that so obviously some other very Christmassy plants are pine and spruce I'm gonna take a few of those as well the only problem with pine and spruce especially is that they're kind of spying here and they kind of hurt your hand when you're holding them so we've got our hope for the wreath and then we've got some cedar some spruce and some pine and of course these aren't the only things you can use obviously Holly and mistletoe are things you can add to it and also the Christmas fern is something that actually grows natively here and it's called the Christmas fern because it's evergreen and people often use it in Reed's and Christmas decorations like this but for now I'm just gonna start with this so I'm gonna take a bundle of the three plants and just sort of try them on and you want to sort of just use variety so that it looks like they're all mixed together and is aesthetically pleasing

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so that's all you need to know to make a wreath of your own and of course again you can use whatever plans you want the nice thing about this is it is completely biodegradable so once the season's over and you want to take it down you can either keep it or you can just toss it somewhere and it'll just eventually degrade and put nutrients back into the forest anyway I hope you like this video please like and subscribe if you haven't yet check out our full adventures where we go backpacking and consider subscribing on patreon to support our Channel Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays if you sign up on patreon before our next public episode you can receive special digital holiday rewards and if you give the gift of patreon by purchasing a subscription or referring someone to our page you can get a physical holiday greeting card