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You know how, for a long time we didn't know nålebinding existed and people thought that those red socks were knitted and it turned out they weren't, they were made by nålebinding, you just had to know very specific details to tell which craft they were made by?
(these socks:)
I know a little bit about a lot of different fiber arts. I know: knitting, crochet, spinning, tatting, bobbin lace, needle lace, embroidery, and a little nålebinding.
Inspired by these socks, I want to create the most archaeologically confounding frankendoily out of all my crafts, and then I want to immediately commit it to a bog, for preservation. A tatted motif at the center, with a bobbin lace round around it. Maybe there's a knitted border with a crochet edge. Some needle lace motifs hanging around, but like, I'm gonna mix Romanian point lace with Battenberg styles. Something's getting embroidered somewhere. Idk.
And I'm gonna make the whole thing out of the most historically generic white cotton thread I can find, something that could maybe have been used hundreds of years ago so you can't tell when the frankendoily was made. Maybe I'll even make it over different decades of my life. Also I'm left handed, but I can do most things right handed too, and some of the crafts look slightly different depending on which hand you used as your dominant hand.
And then the whole thing is going in a bog, because bogs are really specifically good at preserving cloth, and I will go quietly into the void at the end of my life, knowing I leave behind me a very specific kind of chaos and confusion for some very specific future kindred soul.
If anyone has any additional crafts I should learn for the frankendoily, I'm all ears.
#knitting#crochet#crafts#lace#tatting lace#tatting#bobbin lace#nålebinding#handmade#diy#frankendoily#embroidery#craft#crafting#scribbles' scribbles
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Needlebound Mitts
Pair of embroidered needlebound mitts, made in Heddal, Telemark in 1727.
Norsk Folkemuseum - Photographer Eva Brænd
Both needlebinding and embroidery are entirely in wool.
unknown if base colour is just white sheep or bleached in some way.
intitials "PT SS"
#needlebinding#nålebinding#embroidery#18th century#traditional clothing#fashion history#norway#folk costume#telemark#heddal#hitterdal#1700s fashion#1720s#1727#bunad
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Finally finished this nålebinding set. Made for a friend in trade for an interchangeable knitting needle set.
#my thumbs bled carving these#also guess what talent I do not possess? painting#the cover of this took a few tries. my hands are shaky.#my art#x#shoutout to Gloria for burning the last needle for me#nålebinding#needlebinding#yarnblr
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I think I might have done something extremely ADHD...
I tried nålebinding once something like ten years ago, and gave up after about an hour. Since then, it's been on my kilometer long craft to-do list to try learning it and obviously haven't tried it since. I never gave hope though, I even kept my nålebinding Pinterest board and the needle I made!
So, this morning obviously I woke up full of confidence that today's the day when I will nålebind again (because I'm avoiding another task on my more pressing craft list). And apparently I have retained more info from my short stint 10 years ago and/or have acquired information by osmosis because I have managed to do this with only couple pics on Pinterest as my guide:
Yes, it not great, but considering I haven't really done this before beyond a quick try, it's weirdly good.
My actual theory is that the stitch I'm using doesn't differ from sewing blanket stitch all that much and I've done A LOT of hand sewing in the past decade... Plus, I've also gotten pretty good at knitting and crocheting too and so far the increase has worked very similarly to crochet.
#diaryposting#adhd#handcrafts#nålebinding#I seriously strugle with joining a new yarn tho#as you can probably tell from that lumpy part#gotta figure it out tho because I have several balls of gorgeous handspun 100% wool yarn#and the number reason I haven't used it because when I saw it I got it in my head that I can only nålebind it#haven't figured out why tho#but I will get this distinctly neurodivergent anguish whenever I even consider any other technique#and I NEED to be at least consistently decent at nålebinding before I can touch it#and that includes being able to make good looking join#my crafts
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I'm so excited to let you know that the National Museum of Denmark's online exhibition of Archaeological Puzzles in a Museum is now open! I was honored to write Case study 8 on the fringed nalbound sock in their collection.
https://nalbound.com/2023/04/05/case-study-8-of-archaeological-puzzles-in-a-museum/
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Has anyone ever thought that knitting was developed to be a accessibility tool for naalbinding.
Like some person out there lost their thumb and their friends knew how much they loved naalbinding, so they suggested using a stick in replacment?
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used needlebinding to make a mudcrab
needlebinding (or nålebinding) is an ancient way of making stuff out of string, older than knitting or crocheting. learned it at a renaissance fair
#skyrim#mudcrab#needle binding#medieval#viking#renaissance faire#middle ages#nålebinding#knitting#crochet
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Well, after a few tries this is what I got
I have to start over with a different yarn though cause this one sucks for nålbinding, it's acrylic but doesn't want to properly Russian join and I can't see anything through the fuzz.
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First two rounds of the hat I'm making using nålebinding.
Got sort of a magic loop at the start.
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I’ve been a little bit mad with pain and painkillers that didn’t really help since last Saturday, but in that time I sort of taught myself to knit out of spite…. I have all of this yarn that people have given me that isn’t a high enough wool content for nålebinding, and I refused to be beaten by the “basic bitch of fiber crafts” (no offense meant to all of the incredible knitters out there, but knitting has been in my head as the “I want to learn a fiber craft because I’m cute and quirky” fiber craft since high school, at least until you get incredible at it).
So now I’m almost 30 rows into a simple shawl and had to buy circular needles because it was getting to big for the needles I had, and now I’m transferring onto those…
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I HAVE POLLS!!!
Also please reblog!
#blue talks#polls#fibercraft#needlecraft#this will be fun#should i tag with everything?#sprang#tunisian crochet#loom knitting#needlelace#bobbin lace#nalebinding#crewel work#hardanger embroidery#idk how to even do all these myself
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Mittens, Fyresdal
Needlebound white wool mittens, embroidered in dyed wool and camel threads. Made at some point in the 19th century in Fyresdal, Telemark.
Sadly there were no more pictures of this gorgeous pair.
photo: Vest-Telemark Museum
#needlebinding#nålebinding#camel#wool#mittens#traditional clothing#bunad#hand embroidery#historical fashion#folk costume#norway#telemark
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an overview of my developing whittling skill
Here's everything I've carved in the last couple years. It's not much, but I do it all by hand and collect the wood from the firewood scrap pile, where good pieces can be hard to find!
Here's a spoon, butter knife, and what could probably be best described as a stabber (which was my very first carving project).
here's a spool I made. Not super happy how rough it turned out but it does the job! This piece had actually been burned before, which added some neat charred spots.
and my nålebinding needles (the smallest and largest are from the same piece of wood as the butter knife pictured above):
And finally my hairpins, which were probably the trickiest to get right but also the quickest projects I've ever finished.
i used multiple coats of a 60/40 beeswax/coconut oil mixture for a finish on all the pieces after sanding, and it's held up pretty well!
#whittling#wood carving#crafting#I did make sure the wood for the spoon and butter knife were non-toxic!#hand carved#my art
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This week’s Nalbound Object of the Week is the Tarim Beret! https://nalbound.com/2024/01/23/now-tarim-beret/
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#nalbinding#naalbinding#needlebinding#nålebinding#archaeology#history#museums#nålbindning#nålbinding#Simple Looping
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Has anyone ever thought that knitting was developed to be a accessibility tool for naalbinding.
Like some person out there lost their thumb and their friends knew how much they loved naalbinding, so they suggested using a stick in replacment?
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have you ever tried a knitting machine? i have a sentro knitting machine that gives mercy on my hands. tried hand knitting my first sweater while also having several crochet projects and my fingers did not appreciate it after a month of nonstop crafting lmao. but sometimes i still wanna make a yarn thing so i bring up my tiny plastic stockinette tube maker
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I haven't. I may give other fiber stuff a try once I've glutted myself on the hand-knit sweaters and things I currently want. (Though, tbh, nålebinding is probably next on my list after crochet and before knitting machines, looms, or spinning.)
I definitely know a lot of people who've chosen their form of fiber craft based on their hands hurting. For me, knitting hasn't been a problem unless I do it for hours and hours in one go and re-aggravate an old wrist injury.
So far, I've been knitting mostly wool or wool blended with alpaca or silk, nothing too scratchy and rustic either. It's the sort of yarn that I think tends to be particularly easy on the hands.
I've picked up some linen and cotton yarn recently, so it will be interesting to see if this changes. The 100% linen in particular I have a suspicion will be murder.
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