Retting fibers

[dixieangler]

I retted some Yucca leaf fibers and to be honest, I can see very little difference in the scraped (leaf coating), rinsed, and clean fibers from the retted ones. I retted them for about two weeks in water and was hoping for some softer cleaner fibers but they came out being just about the same as if I hadn't retted them. Maybe a tad bit smoother and softer but not much. Maybe it works better on other fibers or other Yucca varieties. I saw some nice retted Yucca fibers (soft, white, and clean) that John McPherson did in his DVD video so maybe that is a different variety of Yucca from the Yucca Filamentosa that I use. Guess I better ask John.

[dixieangler]

John says maybe it needs to be retted longer than two weeks.

[Kingoftheflock]

try putting something in the water, if your trying to do it all primitive then try to find something in the wild that you can put in the water.