How to make a paracord bracelet?
Step by step, we show you how to make a durable survival bracelet. All you need is cord, a buckle and half an hour — it really is simpler than it looks.
A paracord survival kit
Which items are worth keeping to hand, and how paracord helps in an emergency.
Marek Dąbrowski
7 min read
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A survival kit is not a backpack full of gear, but a handful of things you always carry — including when you went out "just for an hour".
What is worth carrying
The minimum list
- A bracelet holding 3 m of 550 paracord
- A buckle with a firesteel and whistle
- A small knife or razor blade
- A piece of emergency blanket
- A plaster and a triangular bandage
Why a whistle, not shouting
A whistle carries several times further than the voice, and you can blow it far longer than you can shout. Three blasts in a row is the international distress signal.
The inner strands
550 paracord contains seven inner strands. Each one is ready-made thread: for sewing, for tying, as fishing line or for snares. One bracelet yields well over ten metres of thin cord.
Gear you cannot use is dead weight. Once a season, unravel an old bracelet and check that you really know what to do with it.
