Nalbinding tutorial

Nålbinding, Danish for “needle binding,” is a method for making textiles that predates knitting and crocheting by thousands of years

Have you ever wondered what Vikings wore to help them survive long, cold winters? Their fabric-making technique, Nalbinding, pre-dates knitting, and creates dense and warm items which don't unravel the way knitted items do.

This tutorial may help you cast on your first stitches for a nålbinding round start.

Do you have thumbs? If the answer is "yes", you can get started with nalbinding: an ancient Scandinavian knotless knitting technique!

So you’ve decided to do some nalbinding. But where do you start? Many of the videos that I have found are excellent for demonstrating the actual stitches, but they have complicated descriptio…

Images for Ane's Nalbinding how-to (copyright Ane Løser). Please ask permission from Ane to use these images - you can contact her through her blog: Ane's Form (anesform.blogspot.com/) Take your right hand and move it anticlockwise, so the yarn twists around and you can put the needle tip down between the thread is still attached to the thumb. Now that we have done this, here is the result. Now pull the thread through and while doing so let the thread loop around your thumb under the thread…

So you’ve decided to do some nalbinding. But where do you start? Many of the videos that I have found are excellent for demonstrating the actual stitches, but they have complicated descriptio…

Images for Ane's Nalbinding how-to (copyright Ane Løser). Please ask permission from Ane to use these images - you can contact her through her blog: Ane's Form (anesform.blogspot.com/) Pull, but do not cut a piece of yarn about 1.5 meters long. At one end you do a two half-hitch knot like above. Read the full how-to on Historic Crafts (historic- crafts.blogspot.com/2011/04/nalbinding-how-to_10.html)

One way to arrange starting loops for a chain of nålbinding.