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A nice round river stone and a deer leg sinew. The sinew has been soaking in water for about 3 hours. Overnight is not too long:
Bash it!
Turn and bash the sinew until your nose bleeds. It will turn from yellow and clear and white and opaque:
Starting to come apart
The tendon sheath is starting to split and the tendon has gone opaque and white:
Tendon sheath has split
The tendn sheath has split all the way down to the foot. Get out the pliers and separate the foot and sheath from the tendons:
Rubbish
Here’s the foot and sheath. There’s very little good fibre here. If you can be bothered you can grind it up and boil it down for glue (or a soup). Being parsimonious I let this dry and pick at it. You may get a few strands out of it:
The good bit
Here are the tendons. You can see the foot end (on the right) need some more bashing:
Starting to separate
Eventually the tendon will start to separate into fibres and you can start to pull it apart:
Divide and conquer
Using your finger nails you will be able to split off some coarse strands.
Keep subdividing it until you get to the thickness you want:
Finished product!
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