HOW TO: Fire-Making: Char-Cloth

Just a quick clip on how to hold char cloth and strike a spark in order to ignite a make-shift tinder-bundle. Char cloth or charpaper is created by a process that the natural fibers such as cotton, linen, or jutte, has been carbonized by means of pyrolysis. This makes the material into a slow-burning fuel of very low ignition temperature...

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