Definitions

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  • noun A fabric creation technique predating knitting and crochet, involving passing the full length of the working thread through each loop, and with separate lengths pieced together during the process.

Etymologies

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Danish nålebinding, literally "needle-binding".

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Examples

  • Actually, the very first hit that comes up on google search when typing "nalebinding needle" is a shop that sells different needles and bodkins well suited for the technique.

    Book talk - Mary C. Beaudry: Findings a stitch in time 2009

  • Actually, the very first hit that comes up on google search when typing "nalebinding needle" is a shop that sells different needles and bodkins well suited for the technique.

    Archive 2009-10-01 a stitch in time 2009

  • There are large numbers of rather large, eyed needles made from wood, bone or antler that are perfectly well suited to work nalebinding, and needles are actually made again and sold again for that purpose today, since the technique has seen a revival in LH circles.

    Book talk - Mary C. Beaudry: Findings a stitch in time 2009

  • She is right however in that to my knowledge no needles have been proven to have been used for nalebinding.

    Archive 2009-10-01 a stitch in time 2009

  • Maybe even worse, nalebinding and knitting are technically so different from each other that stating one as the variant of the other is absolutely misleading to the novice while quite apt to boil the blood of a textile person - and severe mistakes like this do cast doubt on the general reliability of a book.

    Book talk - Mary C. Beaudry: Findings a stitch in time 2009

  • There are large numbers of rather large, eyed needles made from wood, bone or antler that are perfectly well suited to work nalebinding, and needles are actually made again and sold again for that purpose today, since the technique has seen a revival in LH circles.

    Archive 2009-10-01 a stitch in time 2009

  • Maybe even worse, nalebinding and knitting are technically so different from each other that stating one as the variant of the other is absolutely misleading to the novice while quite apt to boil the blood of a textile person - and severe mistakes like this do cast doubt on the general reliability of a book.

    Archive 2009-10-01 a stitch in time 2009

  • She is right however in that to my knowledge no needles have been proven to have been used for nalebinding.

    Book talk - Mary C. Beaudry: Findings a stitch in time 2009

  • She taught me the Oslo and York stitch for nalebinding. the next dance practice that I go to she has told me she will teach me the Mammen stitch:)

    Svans Nest 2010

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