Nalbinding - It's Not Knitting: Heritage Techniques for the Contemporary Textile Crafter by Pointer, Sally
Nalbinding - It's Not Knitting: Heritage Techniques for the Contemporary Textile Crafter by Pointer, Sally

Nalbinding - It's Not Knitting: Heritage Techniques for the Contemporary Textile Crafter

Put down your knitting and pick up something new - and old - with these 20 projects...
$48.00 USD
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Author: Sally Pointer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Nalbinding - It's Not Knitting: Heritage Techniques for the Contemporary Textile Crafter by Pointer, Sally

Nalbinding - It's Not Knitting: Heritage Techniques for the Contemporary Textile Crafter

$48.00
Nalbinding - It's Not Knitting: Heritage Techniques for the Contemporary Textile Crafter by Pointer, Sally

Nalbinding - It's Not Knitting: Heritage Techniques for the Contemporary Textile Crafter

$48.00
Author: Sally Pointer
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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!

Author: Sally Pointer
Publisher: Herbert Press
Published: 03/10/2026
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 10.95h x 8.28w x 0.48d
ISBN: 9781789943061


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 01/01/2026
Library Journal 12/26/2025 pg. 1

About the Author
Sally Pointer is an English archaeologist and award-winning heritage educator committed to keeping techniques from the past in use within modern society. With a working background in the Museum and Heritage industry, she has an MSc in Experimental Archaeology and is currently an Honorary Associate Research Fellow at Exeter University, where she is researching prehistoric textiles. She is a member of Heritage Crafts and EXARC and teaches traditional skills both in person and online. She can be found on social media as @sallypointer.
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