Nalbinding tutorial

So you’ve decided to do some nalbinding. But where do you start? Many of the videos that I have found are excellent for demonstrating the actual stitches, but they have complicated descriptio…

One way to arrange starting loops for a chain of nålbinding.

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

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)

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

Hubby and I have been having a blast working together to make nalbinding needles. (Hubby does most of the work, I help with sanding and pol...

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…

Learn both the prominent methods: on-the-thumb and freehand. Practice using York stitch, and learn how different yarns create different materials.Don't forge...

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…