The Modern Primitive’s Guide to Starting a Fire without Matches

Italian industrial designer Francesco Faccin, who teaches about “objectness/project making”,  made a beautiful little video of the “bow drill”, a device he designed to start a fire manually, using the principle of rubbing two sticks together. “…a beech spindle is rotated within pre-formed holes in a board made from linden wood…The user kneels on the board to…

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