yucca fiber string ??

[stickbender]

     The flowers are good, but you have to get them, while they are still fairly new.  As they age, they start to get bitter.  When I lived in the Virgin Island's some of the resturaunts in the  used them in their salads.  I have read about the N.A.'s using the thorn and string attatched as a needle and thread.  You can shave the thorn down to a smaller diameter. 

                                                                         Wayne

[Catnapper]

Natives also used yucca to make paintbrushes with....take a leaf and cut it at an angle and chew the last 1/2-3/4" an inch of the big end....fray with fingers and let dry....we painted with them in art class and they work like store bought paint brushes...different size leaves for different size brushes and are reusable.  They make great fan brushes!!. ( make sure u chew till the green stuff is out and just the white fibers are left on the end)