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Want to learn how to make stone tools and cordage? Join Montana Folk School and Collin Blace for this amazing class. 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.

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