Nalbinding – It's Not Knitting
Heritage techniques for the contemporary textile crafter
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 15 January 2026
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781789943061
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages160 pages
- Size 278x214x12 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Illustrated with 300 colour photographs. 679
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Short description:
Put down your knitting and pick up something new - and old - with these 20 projects teaching needle-looped stitches from across the millennia.
MoreLong description:
Put down your knitting and pick up something new - and old - with these 20 projects teaching needle-looped stitches from across the millennia.
Nalbinding - loop-manipulated textiles that use just a single needle - can be traced as far back as the Mesolithic period and is still popular in Scandinavia. The results of the various techniques can resemble wool knitting or be worked as an open mesh akin to netting; it can be dense and warm or light and airy; and can use thick woollen yarns or be worked in thin, smooth plant fibres.
This guide containing modern-day designs will teach you various nalbinding techniques and stitches dating from the Stone Age, through the Bronze Age, Ancient Egypt, into medieval Scandinavia and beyond. Sally Pointer's photographic step-by-step instructions will show you how to create your own knotless netting shopping bag, drawing on a Neolithic textile fragment; craft a messenger bag using Oslo, Mammen and Dalby stitches; and knock up practical old favourites such as pixie hats, socks, slippers and, of course, mittens!
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Living Archaeology
Part One: Background and Basics
- PROJECT 1: Make Your Own Nalbinding Needle
Part Two: Needle-tensioned Stitches
- PROJECT 2: String Bag (simple looping)
- PROJECT 3: Shopping Basket (looping around a core)
- PROJECT 4: Phone Case (looping around a core)
- PROJECT 5: Dice Bag (looping around a core)
- PROJECTS 6 & 7: Festival Socks (Coptic Stitch, Tarim Stitch)
- PROJECT 8: Sock Toppers (York Stitch)
Part Three: Thumb-tensioned Stitches
- PROJECT 9: Moebius Scarf
- PROJECT 10: Oslo-Stitch Hat
- PROJECT 11: Spiral Stripes Hat
- PROJECT 12: Hot Water Bottle Cover
- PROJECT 13: Gauntlet MIttens
- PROJECT 14: Fingerless Mittens
- PROJECT 15: Tablet or Journal Case
- PROJECT 16: Knotwork Capelet
Part Four: Socks, Technical Information, References
- PROJECT 17: Short Row Heels
- PROJECT 18: Flap Heels
- PROJECT 19: Tongue Heels
- PROJECT 20: Squashy Socks
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Resources
Index
