Nalbinding tutorial

Nålbinding, Danish for “needle binding,” is a method for making textiles that predates knitting and crocheting by thousands of years

Images for Ane's Nalbinding how-to (copyright Ane Løser). Please ask permission from Ane to use these images - you can contact her through her blog: Ane's Form (anesform.blogspot.com/) Take your right hand and move it anticlockwise, so the yarn twists around and you can put the needle tip down between the thread is still attached to the thumb. Now that we have done this, here is the result. Now pull the thread through and while doing so let the thread loop around your thumb under the thread…

Images for Ane's Nalbinding how-to (copyright Ane Løser). Please ask permission from Ane to use these images - you can contact her through her blog: Ane's Form (anesform.blogspot.com/) Pull, but do not cut a piece of yarn about 1.5 meters long. At one end you do a two half-hitch knot like above. Read the full how-to on Historic Crafts (historic- crafts.blogspot.com/2011/04/nalbinding-how-to_10.html)

A while back when I was in Victoria, a Viking re-creationist taught me one of the (many) nålbinding stitches. While I was there, I made a small wrist cuff, and then later went home and made another…

Do you have thumbs? If the answer is "yes", you can get started with nalbinding: an ancient Scandinavian knotless knitting technique!

Nålbinding is how Viking Age people made hats, socks, mittens, and sieves for straining liquids more than a thousand years ago.

I greatly owe this to Mistress Maire from Artemisia. I promised her December of last year that I would throw one up on my blog. Hmmm. All good things? Step 1: Assemble needed supplies: yarn, needles, scissors. In regards to the yarn, it can truly be of any weight. I've used everything from fingering weight to nice heavy lopi that came from Iceland. The difference is going to be how quickly it takes to do up. The finer the yarn the more stitches per inch (just like in knitting). The only…

Last weeks shire meeting had woodwork on the schedule. We made various wood needles with pretty good results. My research in nalbinding has showed several finds of bone needles for nalbinding and I…