Few questions.

How does this differ to knitting/crochet what are the advantages and disadvantages of this over them?

If I do get started, where would be a great place to start? Any books/videos you would recommend with simple projects to get me going?

Nål and Nålbinding is under the cat. This is slow and painful work. Help!

I made another needle. I know it’s chunky, it’s how I like ‘em. A little whittling project for the night. A friend gave me a lot of wood from a magnolia tree. Inside the tree is this needle, waiting to be found and freed!

Hey there, can anyone recommend a good sock tutorial video? I'm pretty new and still learning to do a starting swirl around the toe (I forget the real word for it 😂😅) and don't get drawings of "how to do socks" in books. Thanks in advance

If I’m not mistaken, nalbinding originated in Scandinavia in the late Iron age (don’t shoot me plz, I’m new to this). Are there any examples of findings or known techniques that originate in early Iron Age, mainly in central or west Europe?

I'm trying to learn nalbinding using a couple of books I found and YouTube videos. I'm using the Oslo stitch and can make the first row, but when I go to join it, it ends up twisted into a mobius strip even though I've been careful to straighten it before joining. Does anyone have any advice?

I have been using my thumb, or pulling the thread to the gauge I want. Is there an easier or fast way to do it? Can I use the needle for gauge? Thank you in advance!

After having stopped with needle binding for a while, I finally picked it up again and finished my fingerless mittens made with merino wool. Couldn't be happier with em and already started with the next pair.

After a brief hiatus due to surgery, I bring you another Nalbound Object of the Week. This artifact was mentioned as an aside in an article about Pierre de Courpalay’s gloves (which will be a later post) and for the longest time I could find no more information about it other than it was supposedly an early 14th century green silk reliquary pouch from Namur, Belgium worked in space patterned Simple Looping with a carried thread. There was a stitch diagram, but no picture. My friend Ann Moreau took up the quest to track down more information and was able to provide me with a photograph and a couple of very interesting sources … https://nalbound.com/2024/10/01/now-namur-reliquary-purse-229f/

Hello everybody. I’m getting ready to start my second project, a pair of socks. I want to use these around the house as more of a slipper to keep my feet warm this winter. Most examples start with a spiral toe, but what if I wanted more of a square toe? Can I take a chain and make an open circle for the toe then start to work back from there? Would need to find a way to sew or stitch the circle closed but that can’t be overly difficult.

I just got my needle in the mail and i don’t know much at all about other fiber arts like crocheting. I was wondering if anyone has a suggestion for a tutorial that will take me completely through a simple project so i can get the hang of all parts of it.

My goal is to be able to gift something small for Christmas this year, like fingerless mittens. So something like that would be awesome if that’s considered an easy first project 😊

I know this is a big ask - I visited Norway with my family this summer, and my 8-year-old niece (who finger-knits and knits and loves yarn and yarn shops in general) met a lovely lovely lady who was Nålbinding, and she just fell in love. We bought her a needle and some yarn, and we'd like to help her continue as she likes it so much. We'd really need an illustrated book, so she isn't reliant on us finding youtube videos and helping her (she has limited screen allowance) and if at all possible in Italian so that her parents can help her out when she gets stuck, as I live far away. Any advice?

Does anyone know where I can get something the same size as a darning needle but made out of wood or bone? I tried working a project with a metal darning needle but it was painful to hold after a while- wood is much easier on my hands. Thanks in advance!

I'm not going to say it went great, but it was fun, haha, and in the end, I did wind up with a new dice bag

I’m using the 2+2+2 of the Russian stitch since it’s basically my mother’s fav of the Russian stitch patterns in nålbinding. I found this yarn at my local thrift store and I thought it’s baby blue,it turns out to be pastel green which I’m not sure if it looks identical to baby blue or not.

I took a 2 hour nålbinding course at a library today. This is my slightly wonky first attempt. I'm looking forward to getting better at this and adding it to my bag of hobbies.

So,I’ve seen some granny squares that’s basically done in crochet and normally when I think of working in a flat piece in nålbinding I assume it’s only done to and fro,but the question I actually wonder is it possible to replicate it in nålbinding?? I mean,most common ones in crochet is in a round start,but I never really tried it before in nålbinding. So,is there any way on how to work on this method and to notice any similarities between crocheted and nålbound versions?? Lemme know if you have any suggestions and ideas.

For anyone familiar with Bilum… I can’t seem to find a good video of someone doing the stitches….

Just wanted to upload these photos to show how I'm doing it with my 100% acrylic yarn. I'm working down the yoke of a cardigan at the moment.

Oh, I'm also left-handed, so feel free to download these photos and flip them if you need to. :-)

First, when you get to the end of your working yarn, go through one of the stitches in the row below as you normally would and then just remove the needle and let the end hang out back there:

This is Oslo stitch off the thumb, BTW

Now, get the needle with the new length of yarn on it and just put it through the 2nd loop behind the active loop as you would have done normally:

This is a locker hook, and the BEST nalbinding needle in the universe, bar none

Now, you just pull the new working length through the work as normal until you have a very small tail sticking out:

https://preview.redd.it/w0yms5ln2fnd1.jpg?width=2073&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0b46dc85a951aefdfc3a0032a3afde5675fd41af

Now, just take that tail and the other one and hold them against the back of the work with your thumb and forefinger while you complete the stitch as you normally would:

Reversing the needle and going down through the first two loops for Oslo stitch

Now just keep going, making sure to adjust the tension of the tails as you go to make the stitches look even. And you'll end up with two small tails that you can hide easily without them showing barely at all:

Just hide them with a darning needle -- easy-peasy, nearly invisible.

You'll want to bury the new end (the rightmost in the above photo) by pushing the needle in the direction of the new stitches, and the old end in the direction of the old stitches. They'll be snug as anything and won't unravel at all. I'd have taken a picture of the spot where I hid the ends ... but I can't find it.

I’ve read several articles and webpages about the history of Nålbinding and I know that the earliest known examples are from Nahal Hemar, and that they might be “proto-nålbinding” rather that true nålbinding, and that the next oldest examples seem to be from Denmark in 4200 BCE, but I’m having trouble finding out which stitches were used in those examples! Does anyone here know? Thank you!

Tagged as a spoiler cause if E reads this its a spoiler lol

My girlfriend is into nalbinding and mentioned she's been interested in large thread type projects. I have no idea about any of this but it sounds like thread or yarn where its maybe 1" in diameter. She apparently doesnt have a needle capable of that.

Ive tried some basic searching but Im not quite sure of terms or stores, and Im not seeing much in results. Anyone familiar with this type of thing? I figure it would be a nice gift.