Stone Age Tools and Cordage - Sat, July 20, 8am-4pm

It's a freeing experience, to take nothing but the nature around you and turn it into beautiful and functional tools. Our ancestors of the distant and not so distant past used nothing but stone, bone and wood to build and explore their world, so why can't we do the same?

You will learn a simple, safe, and consistent method of making sharp stone knives, drills and saws from river rocks (not flint knapping, that's a craft for another day).Next you'll use those stone tools to shape the bones of a deer (and maybe other critters) into awls, needles, fish hooks, and even knives! You can make anything you can think of with bone if you have the time and patience.

Lastly, you'll learn how and when to harvest local plants, how to process their fibers, and how to turn them into thread, rope, string, any kind of cordage you want.

These are skills that anyone of any skill level can learn and refine. I'll bring all the tools and materials needed, and you take home everything you make.