Lyle and Ingrid, Lyle, I am looking forward to seeing your work. I find it admirable that you try to cover more than one method when you teach. You must have...
Thanks, Anahita--I have a scultor friend who is very interested in using textile techniques with wire. I am forwarding her the info... --Ingrid ... do ... ...
Greetings, I have been looking at different nalbinding socks on the web and noticed some "double spiral" socks. Does anyone know where to go for directions?...
... I don't think I have seen these socks. Can you tell us where to find them? I haven't made socks like the ones you describe, but I did use the "double...
Here is how I did my double spirals: I did 3 to 5 stitches (or your preference) and the began the first spiral, doing several increase stitches until the...
Hi Kiara I'm really looking forward to seeing a shrug on your project site, it'll be a first for the whole WEB as far as I can tell. In fact I don't think I've...
Hi jeneurb, Bernhard Dankbar also has pics on his nalbinding site of how to do the spiral technique, (though he doesn't include the "toe- on" view that Kiara...
... The Yarn came plyed that way. I can't remember the official name for the wieght of the yarn. Its not bulky but Im doing a variation on the mammen stitch...
Kiara--That yarn is really pretty, the shrug is going to be beautiful. I would love to make a pair of mittens out of that yarn... Do you remember its...
... No unfortunately I don't I might still have the wrapper in my yarn drawer at home.. will try to remember to look when I get back to Seattle. ... Yup, its...
Apologies to anyone who gets more than one copy of this. I have been off-line for nearly three weeks (catastrophic hard disk failure) and have lost the entire...
Hi to everyone! I'm thinking about mittens - maybe ones worked from the fingertips down. This time I don't think I will use my own handspun. Is anyone else...
Hi Ettie! What quality are you looking for and what stitch are you using? One of my favorite yarn is a norse one that you probably can't find in the States....
Thanks for the suggestions Martina and Andrea! I am thinking about using a lighter weight yarn and maybe the Peer Gynt you suggest, Martina. Peer Gynt is still...
I concurr with Andrea, Brown Sheep Bulky is awesome and very warm and water-resistant. In fact, the majority of the mittens I've nalbound are in Brown Sheep...
A number of reenactors in Australia are using a mesh stitch, not the one that looks like knittingbut the one that takes the stitches from between the crosses,...
I think I've seen it in Hald used for a pre-Viking Age milk strainer, and decorative stitching. Can't remember whether it was bronze age or iron age. On the...
Mesh stitch has been used since the stone age and forward. The caps from Xin Jiang in China is made from this stitch, and so are a number of coptic socks from...
... Which ones do you think translate from the german as mesh-stitch? (certainly none are labelled with any wordvariant of mesh). I'm not good enough at...
In http://www.dueppel.de/nadelbind/nadelbcluny.htm you can see a draft of the technique. The stitch is called "einfache Verschlingung", wich I only can...
Hello, I want to send a notice and invitation for the first German Naalbinder-Meeting in case if some Nalbinder from German neighbour countries want join it or...
Hi Margie, You will probably confuse people less if you refer to it as "simple looping" or "buttonhole stitch", "blanket stitch", and "simple buttonhole...
... then again in the 14th century (handcoverings) and later as needle lace. Given that to make a sock of simple looping one is either going to spend agreat...
I dunno, given that we do have a complete Viking Age sock, from England, in that stitch, it seems to me to be a very sensible stitch to use. Oslo stitch is I...
... England, ... and, ... sock remaining from that period, the one found in Coppergate. Hi there! I have read these messages over a couple times and I am...
You know, I think I must have got confused too - that's what I get for writing emails before coffee. How right you are. No, the Coppergate sock isn't open...
... I wonder whether it is worth my time to respond, since these matters appear to be of no interest whatsoever to anyone but one or maybe two of us, BUT -...
