char cloth

If you don't, these materials will ruin your first batch of char cloth.

He was blowing furiously on the charred cloth where a spark had taken hold.

The flux from even a single shot heated the muzzle enough to char cloth.

He pulled out some charred cloth and tucked it gently into the crack, waving Gem away.

Generating Sparks To use the char cloth, you need to generate a spark.

As the standard rolled free of the charring cloth, every bronze feather on the Eagle glowed.

Bodies lay inside, too, mounds of charred cloth, some stirring feebly, moaning.

Use charred cloth if available.

There was a large black-edged hole in the quilt, and the room was filled with the smell of charred cloth.

His ribcage lay exposed, hunks of flesh and charred cloth clinging to the bones.

Problems Encountered when Charring Properly charred cloth should be a uniform black.

There was a "stay" pile: string, flint, steel, char cloth, and other nonessentials.

Properly charred cloth requires a gentle force to tear it, and it should not leave black marks on the fingers when handled.

I saved my city pants and burned them bit by bit to make charred cloth for the flint and steel.

The beam flashed and licked charred cloth and smoking leather from Newlin's sleeve.

Easily combustible materials such as char cloth or amadou work well as tinder in the fire piston.

However, many woodsmen of previous centuries had to do without charred cloth or fire fungus and kept charred plant material in their tinderboxes.

Then the smells returned: sour wine and vomit, the sweetness of puddings, the reek of charred cloth.

If a fire is to be lit by sparks rather than matches, char cloth, punkwood, fungus or down are commonly used to catch the sparks.

Charred cloth appears to have been the universal tinder two hundred years ago, but what did people use when cloth was too precious a commodity to burn?

He found his box, and struck sparks into the coil of charred cloth, and lit the floating wick in his little dish of oil.

Char cloth can be made by placing plant-based fabric (usually cotton) in a tin box into a campfire; like charcoal, it is the product of anhydrous pyrolysis.

The newshawks gasped as they stared down at the hideous bullet wound over his heart, with its circle of charred cloth from the flame of a gun muzzle.

Making Charred Cloth Here is how to put together your own tinder box, so that you can make a fire the same way that people did two hundred years ago.

All she could make out was a shapeless huddle on the floor, burned flesh glistening through charred cloth, an island of human wreckage in a fresh-water sea one centimetre deep.