How is two-strand cord braided? What shape cordage material
works best for this technique? Do you need to start from
relatively round cordage or can something strong but more flat
(like a tough grass) be used? You can easily* make two strand
cord out of a variety of materials - I have done it with long
grasses, but any relatively long fibrous material can work,
including the fibres from inside woody stemmed plants, strips
torn from a t-shirt, even plastic bags. Where you have flattish
grasses, you can roll them between the palms to flatten them
slightly and split the fibres apart a little - not completely,
but enough to help them bind together. Using relatively dry
fibres, for example, from recently dead wood will allow you to
bind the cord together more tightly than wet fibres, and in fact
wet bound cord may separate as it dries, so do try to choose dry
fibres where possible. Avoid lining up the ends of fibres, as
when you twist them together that would make a single point of
weakness, so stagger the ends. T