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“The content of this tutorial doesn’t have to be followed precisely, its just how i did things and it turned out well.
First you need to go gathering materials. I used Hazel wood.
Choose the thin long shoots of wood which i would think are a couple of years old. You don’t have to use hazel, there should be plenty of other wood types you can use. I can imagine Willow would work well but you could even use things like Alder whips.
Once you have got the wood you can strip the bark off and tie them together into small bundles and let them dry.
Hazel dried for me over night on top of a hot radiator! The wood suffered no splitting.
Keep a hand full of wood fresh for the next stage though because its easier to bend when fresh…”