Bowstring



A Bow string (or bs) is used in the Fletching skill to create bows. It is created by using flax with a spinning wheel, which requires level 10 Crafting and grants a player 15 Crafting experience.

Their trading hub is at the Seers' Village bank, although they are now seen being traded in Lumbridge because of its proximity to a Spinning wheel.

Spinning flax into bow strings is a good way to make money and experience because flax sells for 100 coins each, while bow strings could sell for up to 200 coins each. If you have a decent amount of money, you could buy flax in bulk, maybe, 1000 flax or more and spin them into bow strings. Then sell them for twice its original price or less. This gives you a decent amount of money, and you can keep doing it for even more profit.

Bow strings were also a common item made by macroers, as they can easily be sold in bulk and for fairly good profits. Therefore, it used to be common to see macros in Seers' Village picking flax in the field, and spinning them into bow strings at the spinning wheel at Seers Village. This is now somewhat rare due to Jagex's effort to remove unbalanced trade.