Simple Looping: the oldest form of Nalbinding?

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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024

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  • @lizadams7662
    @lizadams7662 2 года назад +27

    Visually this is very considerate. Contrasting yarn and needles, simple background. Thank you. And good audio without background music. Such a relief after the other videos I've tried. Classy!

    • @Zendemic42
      @Zendemic42 Год назад +1

      Yes it is very clear, even perhaps when she works more quickly. I am learning a lot from this video only! The splicing technique for coarser 2ply, the stitch which I just learned... It is an amazing video!

  • @myvikingmom6218
    @myvikingmom6218 5 лет назад +40

    That way of adding to the cordage was a revelation to me. So simple and so brilliant! Thank you! Now I need to watch the video again to learn the stitches!

  • @katehirst6046
    @katehirst6046 4 месяца назад +3

    The similarity between this and crocheting in the round is amazing, l couldn't help smiling when you talked through the stitch increases. Modern amigurumi relies on crocheting in the round to create the form of the finished item.
    I'm fascinated that what seems like an initial disadvantage - creating the cordage you use - actually becomes an advantage as you continue by adding in new fibres. Amazing! ❤

  • @hollyheise8792
    @hollyheise8792 6 месяцев назад +5

    I love your explanations and demonstration! It easy to follow, and you give me more encouragement to use the stinging nettle that grows in my back yard. Thank you Sally Pointer.

  • @GodsOath_com
    @GodsOath_com Год назад +3

    It looks like the precursor to Crochet. Nettle looks like a valuable fiber since it retains the twist even by hand quit easily. I like your videos. Loose half knots, then wet blocked at the end.

  • @potatospade1217
    @potatospade1217 5 лет назад +32

    Fantastic videos, your channel is wonderful! You have such a jolly and friendly style, it’s like listening to a favourite aunt. Looking forward to learning lots more, keep it up!

  • @bettygagnon2130
    @bettygagnon2130 2 года назад +3

    This is interesting will try that with yarn and yarn needle

  • @jodyjohnsen
    @jodyjohnsen 2 года назад +3

    Oh great! Now I need to learn how to do this. I blame you!

  • @ReturntoNatureSkills
    @ReturntoNatureSkills 2 года назад +21

    So insightful thank you! I’ve been making needles from the deer needle bone and it’s led me to some of the prehistoric methods of working fiber. Thank you for this

  • @hazeluzzell
    @hazeluzzell 5 лет назад +27

    This technique was how I first started naalbinding. With reduced gauge in wool, it makes excellent socks, hats and mittens.By the way, you have a beautiful voice for this!

  • @JustAnotherBuckyLover
    @JustAnotherBuckyLover 2 года назад +6

    I love that as I am watching these videos I'm seeing so much similarity between modern-day fibrecrafts. Amazing stuff.

  • @romonaelrod7870
    @romonaelrod7870 2 года назад +3

    This reminds me of crochet.

  • @dangunit69
    @dangunit69 5 лет назад +32

    Bloody Brilliant!! I started playing with Nalbinding years ago and had a parallel thought that workpieces could travel with the person making progress as the fiber became available since the nature of the stitching prevents the work from unraveling. For some reason I pictured this using wool and following the flock, but my biggest stumbling block was getting an acceptably clean/even splice as I always envisioned making the cordage/yarn first then splicing it in. Your technique is exactly what I was looking for, I think you hit the nail on the head! Cheers!

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  5 лет назад +9

      Great minds think alike and all that! It does feel right though doesn't it!

    • @Pouquiloury
      @Pouquiloury 3 года назад +7

      That's right, I thought about all kind of stringy stuff that can be made into cord and yarn. When using thin yarn or thread (whatever its contents) and even leftover bits of it or of textile etc.
      I love the fact that just one folded piece can get added, twist and turn.
      This struck a whole new well of artistic ideas.... And... Easy to take along. The nalbinding techniques only use the one needle and thread, won't unravel. Yay!

  • @silverwater211
    @silverwater211 Год назад +1

    It is fascinating! Simple and ingenious at the same time! The cord making is so clever.
    I just watch a video about a Native American lady who was making a turkey feather blanket and she was making cord for it with yucca fiber: She was just rolling the 2 strands of fiber on her thigh with her palm, then let them twist together. It amazes me how simple it was for her to make that cord.(lot of work, but simple) Her name is Mary Weahkee, if some want to take a look.

  • @Aireze_
    @Aireze_ Год назад +2

    Thank you very much for this video! I started with Oslo stitch, but I am loving this simple speedy way to whip up a thinner mesh bag! Thank you!

  • @GrannyReplica
    @GrannyReplica 2 года назад +4

    This was mind blowing! 🙀 Thank you for sharing. A part of me can't help but feel inferior to our ancestors, because I couldn't come up with such ingenious innovations and techniques.

  • @kalynnkallweit7940
    @kalynnkallweit7940 2 года назад +2

    I might not have time to actually DO this.. but watching this i find incredibly relaxing...

  • @6bonjour
    @6bonjour Год назад +1

    Your videos are always informative, energizing, and relaxing all at once. Thank you.

  • @elizabethjohnson-kueny1655
    @elizabethjohnson-kueny1655 Год назад +1

    What a lovely video, thank you. It's interesting to see how the production of the fiber would influence how one works the fiber into a finished piece. No need to make and stockpile cordage.

  • @bennyshi1481
    @bennyshi1481 Год назад

    Thank you Sally for recording this such a clear tutorial. I think I knew how to do that extra twist when I adding a new loop. Thanks again for your guidance. LOVE you ♥ ♥ ♥

  • @lizcademy4809
    @lizcademy4809 Год назад +1

    I was never interested in nalbinding - so many ends to join, then darn in! Making the cord as you go solves that problem nicely.
    Tomorrow I will go out to my tiny, overgrown city garden and see what plants have good fibers. There's a coarse decorative grass I want to try ...

    • @RKHageman
      @RKHageman 9 месяцев назад +1

      If you felt your joins, there are no ends to darn in at all.

    • @lizcademy4809
      @lizcademy4809 9 месяцев назад

      @@RKHageman Good idea! I often felt my joins in knitting.

  • @FrauWNiemand
    @FrauWNiemand 2 года назад +4

    I realy like the work pieces at the very end and I was reminded of the needle baskets some people work. And I often saw this fabric coil basket stitching on instagram recently.

  • @Skyspiders
    @Skyspiders 4 года назад +8

    my god this WONDERFUl. So versatile and applicable to so many different things. I am deeply appreciative of you showing multiple different types of natural fibers as well and a bit on how they are processed. I have nettle around but just not enough of it really to do this with and flax? forget it. But now that I've seen you work multiple fibers I'm reminded of so many different types of material and wondering to myself if I could get this type of fiber out of the invasive blackberry vines that are infesting the forests and hillsides where I live, or if the horsetail plant that grows everywhere around here could produce fiber that I might use. I recognize this twisting technique in the plastic bag yarn that I make and realizing what a wonderful net or net bag it would make which would be so easy to put together with this simple nalbinding technique you've shared... I'm even reminded of the old native turkey blanket in which this twisting of fiber has feathers added into the twist to make the resulting chord all soft and fluffy... you've really got my mind exploding with ideas and appreciating the old crafts. Thank you so much for sharing!

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  4 года назад +5

      Blackberry vines make great cordage, I do have videos on making bramble cord. You might find they are going brittle now, depending on your location, round here it's only in sheltered damp deep woodland that the fibre is still soft enough, but try it and see

    • @Skyspiders
      @Skyspiders 4 года назад +4

      @@SallyPointer Good to hear it! I am rather trepidatious about their many many MANY thorns but hopeful that they will fall away with the outer skin... - I do live in a climate that gets 90% rainfall per year so the sheltered forest area nearby is almost always damp. The blackberries are a tenacious invasive pest here and a real chore to clear away so I'd love a good reason to get in there and tear them out. Perhaps knowing that I can use them to make lovely chord with may bring some bearable excitement to the task. I will certainly go dig out my leather gloves and face the monstrous infestation with renewed vigor and purpose. Thank you so much for the encouragement! I look forward to reviewing your bramble chord making videos as well!

    • @warriormaiden9829
      @warriormaiden9829 2 года назад +1

      @@Skyspiders How'd your tackling of the vines go? :)

  • @longyarn4288
    @longyarn4288 5 лет назад +10

    By George, I believe you've spun flax into gold! I think this is a most logical conclusion/theory. Well done! 👍👍

  • @cyndifoore7743
    @cyndifoore7743 Год назад +1

    I’m definitely going to ty this once the nettle is long enough to work with. Thank you Sally.

  • @faierieknotting
    @faierieknotting Месяц назад

    The tecnique to make rope cordage it is very interesting particularly the loop adding for more long cordade many thanks I have made some field resherch also on unknown old knots it is inmybook

  • @teleriferchnyfain
    @teleriferchnyfain Год назад +1

    Looks to me like the precursor to crochet & knitting as well - certainly nalbinding!

  • @myguitardidyermom212
    @myguitardidyermom212 Месяц назад +2

    I reckon you could fill the hairnet up with grass or milkweed down or other softish and insulating fluffy stuff and use a bit of cordage as a kind of hatband to keep the ol' noggin warm without recourse to insulating materials like wool or fur

  • @claudiaapablaza8288
    @claudiaapablaza8288 2 года назад +1

    amazing work!, thanks for sharing

  • @renatamcstay
    @renatamcstay Год назад +2

    Simple amazing everlasting skills thank you!

  • @laightnightknits4358
    @laightnightknits4358 3 года назад +4

    Great tutorial for simple nalbinding! ☺ Really easy to follow. Thank you

  • @esmecat
    @esmecat 5 лет назад +9

    i originally found you from Good and Basics video showing you doing this at the bushcraft festival.

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  5 лет назад +1

      It's my pleasure. I love sharing these techniques with people.

  • @reycroucher7473
    @reycroucher7473 4 года назад +4

    this is such a great tutorial!! i really struggled to understand nalbinding for a while and this tutorial helped me sit with my friends and still make garments with them!

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  4 года назад

      I'm so pleased it was useful 🙂

  • @janethall2289
    @janethall2289 2 года назад +1

    Fascinating!

  • @MoniqueAO888
    @MoniqueAO888 2 года назад +2

    Another great video...Frohe Weihnachten und ein gutes Neues Jahr !!! 🎄

  • @catrionahenderson7759
    @catrionahenderson7759 2 года назад +1

    That was really good instruction. Thankyou so much for posting it.

  • @sabine9524
    @sabine9524 Год назад +1

    Wow, thank you for this great video. It's just so cool! ❤

  • @Zendemic42
    @Zendemic42 Год назад

    This is absolutely wonderful. I started needlebinding 3 days ago and I am completely sold. However, I did only the finish 2+1 stitch, creating a beautiful modern bolero vest. Now, I learned so much new things: how to splice in a completely new way if cording myself, as well as the idea of working with nettles, to the actual stitch, and that it is possible to work with flax also with very basic processing.
    This is what youtube is about!

  • @smurph4959
    @smurph4959 4 года назад +5

    This is fantastic! I cant wait to try it. I crochet so hopefully that'll help. Thanks so much for sharing 🌼🌿🌼

  • @artlajawab7611
    @artlajawab7611 2 года назад +2

    Very hard work for making this craft i saw full video thanks for making this technology

  • @sangsterbassoon
    @sangsterbassoon Год назад +1

    Fantastic. I recently fashioned a nalbinding needle out of a used ice lolly stick. I'm nalbinding a sunhat using plied bast fibers in York stitch. I've not seen an example of nalbinding used for such a hat, but I've love to hear about it if you have!

  • @doro5419
    @doro5419 4 года назад +3

    Fascinating! I'm fairly new to nålbinding and this is stirring up my imagination of what is possible.

  • @beggsnachin
    @beggsnachin 3 месяца назад +1

    This is very similar to when I crochet a round for an open weave hat or bag

  • @YoannSs
    @YoannSs 5 лет назад +13

    Hello !! Great work, and very didactic too ! This looping technic is very interesting. You did explained very well how to start (central loop) and how to extends (2 in 1 loop, then 2 to 1, 1 to 1, etc...). I'm now very curious to see the finishing ! Could you do that in one of your next vidéeo ? Maybe a video about the "second thread worked over" technique ? Thank you so much for all your videos !

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  5 лет назад +8

      I am planning another video on Tybrind Vig style looping, so yes, I will cover this in another video soon I hope. Thanks for watching!

    • @CG-ng3xw
      @CG-ng3xw 5 лет назад +8

      Also interested in this :) Very good video, and I really like the make it as you go on the cordage. Less wasted effort and breaks up the monotony of each of the 2 tasks.

  • @ingeleonora-denouden6222
    @ingeleonora-denouden6222 2 года назад +1

    Very inspiring! It makes me want to do a nalbinding (or looping) project again, this time starting with collecting nettles ...

  • @sadiesspincraft6319
    @sadiesspincraft6319 5 лет назад +3

    Wow I'm so glad I found you love this video I'm now going to go binge watching your channel x

  • @Just_Sara
    @Just_Sara 5 лет назад +4

    Wow, I have never tried nalbinding, it looks like quite a bit a fun, actually. I'll have to try it sometime. :)

  • @TootlesTart
    @TootlesTart Год назад +1

    Thank you! ❤

  • @iainrussell4478
    @iainrussell4478 4 года назад +1

    Absolutely Facinating. Found you whilst looking for nettle fabric videos. Have loved everything I've seen so far. Just wanted to say thanks.

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  4 года назад +1

      You are most welcome!

    • @iainrussell4478
      @iainrussell4478 4 года назад +1

      @@SallyPointer Just watched the sprang video. Simply breathtaking. Will have to give it a go. Thanks again.

  • @mozartpaiva1
    @mozartpaiva1 3 года назад +1

    Just LOVE it!

  • @destructionindustries1987
    @destructionindustries1987 Год назад +1

    Fascinating

  • @sadiesspincraft6319
    @sadiesspincraft6319 5 лет назад +1

    It's a lot like crochet I like it I think I'm gonna try it out x

  • @fshs1949
    @fshs1949 4 года назад

    Fantastic work. Bless you.

  • @tineditmarunnerup9513
    @tineditmarunnerup9513 Год назад

    Every time I see an interesting video I think: "Ohhhh, this would interest Sally....."
    And then I realise who made the video........

  • @onegreenev
    @onegreenev 5 лет назад +2

    Time to make a new bone needle. I have my yucca ready to start this project. Going to video my first ever attempt of this. No practice before hand. :)

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  5 лет назад +1

      Excellent, looking forward to hearing how you get on.

  • @darksilk1967
    @darksilk1967 Год назад

    Thank you

  • @totorotroll
    @totorotroll 2 года назад +2

    Wonderful! Do you have a video tutorial where you demonstrate doing the edges please?

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  2 года назад +1

      It's essentially a row or two of the 'looping around a core' method, I have a video for that

  • @patytrico
    @patytrico 4 года назад

    Impressive class! Thank you :)

  • @EleSurvival
    @EleSurvival 4 года назад +5

    One of the best video I've seen about it. Awesome technique for Experimental Archaeology, Bushcraft, Survival, etc. Thank you very much. Do you think that this technique - simple looping as you do here - could be useful to make a fishing net?

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  4 года назад +4

      Thanks for the kind words! For fishing nets, you want a method that won't let the mesh get bigger as a fish wriggles against it, potentially loosing a catch. So, this is possible with this method, but as the hole size can change, you'd have a more stable net using the more traditional netting knot in my net bag video.

    • @EleSurvival
      @EleSurvival 4 года назад

      @@SallyPointer Thank you very much!!

  • @qltygrl3187
    @qltygrl3187 5 лет назад

    This is brilliant!

  • @ThePhantazmya
    @ThePhantazmya 5 лет назад +1

    Toothbrush rugs are made this way. I've also made little cotton drink coasters with this stitch. I never made the connection with nalbinding.

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  5 лет назад +2

      It's a very versatile method despite its simplicity

  • @manucoutinho8715
    @manucoutinho8715 Год назад +1

    Awsome!!

  • @rhondajhunter9091
    @rhondajhunter9091 3 месяца назад +1

    It resembles a miniature fishnet, which makes sense,

  • @kathleenegan6196
    @kathleenegan6196 4 года назад +3

    This is wonderful! I watched some of your other videos as well, and see that you work at the Weald and Downland museum, which I have long wished to cross the pond to visit. Alas, your nalbinding course in late March is fully booked. Is there only one per year?

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  4 года назад +1

      I should be doing another at Berrycroft Hub too later in the year, check their website for their amazing courses.

  • @liawatson5789
    @liawatson5789 4 месяца назад +1

    Wow❤

  • @destructionindustries1987
    @destructionindustries1987 Год назад +1

    The way to spin strands has "sunwise and countersinwise" terminology

  • @cbisme6414
    @cbisme6414 3 года назад +1

    If you find it too fast to follow you can slow down the video by pressing on the top right of you screen, a dropdown menu will appear, choose the three vertical dots, choose PLAYBACK SPEED, you will see you're on normal, if you chose the one above, it will slow down the video slightly, if you choose the ones below it will speed the video up, choose whichever best suites your need.

  • @SaadonAksah
    @SaadonAksah 5 лет назад +1

    nice one!

  • @route66paul
    @route66paul 3 года назад +1

    I remember when I was a boy, some of the boys had a net bag that then went around their neck(maybe a bead to close it?). Many had been in Juvenile Hall, they use these as a place to carry small valuables and a little money, keeping it close, even in the showers. When I asked, they all said they paid someone to make it for them. Have you ever seen this? I would be interested how they made these - I am sure it was made from industrial thread, maybe the type to make shoes with(since that is what they used these boys to make).

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  3 года назад +1

      What a fascinating story, I've not come across this before, but I'll see if I can find out anything. I love the idea!

    • @route66paul
      @route66paul 3 года назад +2

      @@SallyPointer Looking at your other videos, it seems to me that these neckbags were probably made from industrial sewing thread, like the legionnaire's net bag for carrying bread or forage. I can see a fisherman's son make these with popsicle stick net shuttle and gauges - or maybe a finger for a gauge? I think I am going to try to make one. I remember seeing these on the tough kids that lived in the old California beach towns(these were noticeable because they went shirtless in the summer)

  • @daleskidmore1685
    @daleskidmore1685 2 года назад +1

    How long is a piece of string? As long as you need it to be. A very Jack Hargreaves question that, lol. Very nice explanation of a very ancient art; I always thought they struggled with a huge length of thread, rather missed you could add thread as you went. I like the tight weave skull cap.

  • @Alarix246
    @Alarix246 2 года назад +1

    Seeing this I wonder what had been earlier, if the hairnet or the fishnet? What I love on your video is that u use the word "flax" which we Czechs call "len", and they are sooo unrelated, yet then u use word "linen", the translation thereof is "prádlo", but when I run it through the google translator, that word spits out "laundry" in return. Yet you used the word "linen" in a significantly different meaning, where it actually meets our Czech "len". Obviously a) these words are related in their origin and b) they prove that although our languages are so far apart now, they were one originally, plus the more time distance shows/indicates/proves how very ancient bit important this flax weed was for our prehistoric ancestors. I also wonder if the Australian Aborigines have this skill for weaving, pleating, nalbinding. And just as you dare to guess how very old some techniques and related knowledge were, I also do the same for many objects of relevance: e.g. I strongly believe that the oldest fairy tales are older than few thousand years. I think they are sometimes tens of thousand years and who has the right imagination can see in them the evolution at work: e.g. Hänsel and Grethel story - when you think of it, the house couldn't be of pumpernickel, but what at the time? Drying meat I bet. I believe it was a hut made of mammoth tusks and animal hides, and the pieces of meat were being dried outside (like the American Indians id till very recently to make pemican). The fact that the hag in the tale was a cannibal gives more of the proof to it. Of course the original - meat- was untenable for the later culture, so it had to change to pumpernickel. Or the King Arthur? How do you pull out the sword out of the stone? Well if the sword was a stone axe, of course one had to pull it from the stone. And if that person was so skilled so as to be able to do so, he was forever remembered. Actually I also believe that the similarity of Arthur's and Thor's name isn't a coincidence and that Thor's hammer and Excalibur were the same thing originally (Ex being an axe and caliburn being the hammer, therefore the double edged stone axe). All that is needed is a little imagination and then some logic to stitch it together. By the way my lady is going to learn some of the cordage production from local nettles soon and I am looking forward!

  • @TheGabygael
    @TheGabygael 3 года назад +1

    nettles almost appear out of thin air and i'm pretty sure that the fibers are ever so slightly finer than flax so it makes sense for it to be used more often

  • @barbf9168
    @barbf9168 Год назад +1

    Thank you! I missed a class in nalbinding back in 2001 and thanks to you have now completed one 22 years later. 🌟 Question: the thread tail at the very last loop...do you work it backwards into the piece, or does it just hang there, or have you tucked it between your hair and the head piece? 🤔

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  Год назад +1

      On my hairnet I just left the end because I often show people how I could continue working if I wanted to, but you could weave the end in if preferred.

    • @barbf9168
      @barbf9168 Год назад

      Thank you 👍

  • @KimGibsonfiberlover
    @KimGibsonfiberlover 2 года назад +1

    Hi Sally, do you think the stalks of cattail might be prepared similarly to nettle?

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  2 года назад +1

      Typha stalks are more usually used whole, they lend themselves to things like baskets and mats. I'd use those where their larger scale is a virtue, and save other materials for finer work

  • @nancyfrey454
    @nancyfrey454 3 года назад +1

    So at the end you said you worked over a cord to have a firmer edge, less stretchy. How did you add/secure the cord to the naalbinding loop stitches?

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  3 года назад +1

      Just lay it in, I took the needle through the starting 'eye' of the cord initially, then it just sits there and you work over it. You can see more of this type of stitch in my video on a Tybrind Vig style bag/basket done in heavier lime bast.

    • @nancyfrey454
      @nancyfrey454 3 года назад

      @@SallyPointer thank you for your quick reply. I am using your tutorial to make a Tybrind Vig basket. Living in Southern California makes for a different type of cordage fiber hunt, but I am determined. Finding joy where I can these days...

  • @ImSuitsMe
    @ImSuitsMe Год назад +1

    I wonder if these could be used as fish nets.

  • @kiracattan4624
    @kiracattan4624 3 года назад +1

    Can I use Yarn? I can't find any really good wool or fibers like you use.

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  3 года назад +1

      Yarn can be made from anything at all, wool, cotton, nettle, newspaper, plastic... Just pick something you enjoy using, I've seen nalbinding done with everything from feathers to old fishing line! Some things work better than others, so be ready to experiment a bit, and have fun!

  • @hiyacynthia
    @hiyacynthia Год назад +1

    Is this the simple looping procedure in contemporary rope baskets? Or is that different? Altho can’t see how !

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  Год назад +1

      It's a technique that's been in use for thousands of years and still used today

    • @hiyacynthia
      @hiyacynthia Год назад

      @@SallyPointer thank you

  • @pauljs75
    @pauljs75 5 лет назад

    Might be neat to try making a woven rucksack like this too. Perhaps "coptic" (about as easy as this, just looping over crossings) and for the broad straps you can reverse back on the stitching to make flats.

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  5 лет назад +1

      Coptic stitch gives you a structure that closely resembles knitting, so you'll get the same stretching and curling you'd get if it was knit. If suggest bag straps in a different method because of that.

    • @pauljs75
      @pauljs75 5 лет назад

      @@SallyPointer How about a whole bunch of parallel braids, then stitch those together on the edges? (Possibly 4 or 6 strand than the usual 3. More like braided belts and that kind of thing.) The thing is to get it to form a flat strip, since a round cording would dig in if used as a shoulder strap. Rest of the bag could still be done with this style of stitching work, and woven together in a fairly seamless fashion.

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  5 лет назад +2

      @@pauljs75 braiding would be the best option rather than flat nalbinding, try something like a 12 or 14 strand twill braid, that has excellent support characteristics but isn't too fiddly to do.

    • @CG-ng3xw
      @CG-ng3xw 5 лет назад

      Inkle looms look pretty easy too for making straps. Not sure if it matches to the same era really if that's a goal of the project.

    • @pauljs75
      @pauljs75 5 лет назад +1

      @@CG-ng3xw Seems that could be made with enough work and would be effective, but looking up the subject it seems that a back-strap loom would be something named with the goal in mind, and is of even simpler construction. (Both would technically be "period correct" if primitive crafting is a goal.) And I know there's another kind of loom which has one of the main components being a slotted board (not a big construction like a treadle) but I'm not sure if that's another variant of the back-strap or something else. Trying to look up these things tends to talk about the fabrics rather than the looms and processes themselves, which is a bit annoying.

  • @Goldenretriever-k8m
    @Goldenretriever-k8m 4 года назад +1

    are there any wild fibers in america? i would love to try this!

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  4 года назад +4

      Hundreds! You have a real wealth of fibre producing plants that have been used by native populations, just have a look at traditional uses in your particular area.

    • @elliehjemmet
      @elliehjemmet 4 года назад +1

      Two I know of in the Appalachian Mountains are nettle and dog bane.

    • @Goldenretriever-k8m
      @Goldenretriever-k8m 4 года назад +1

      @@elliehjemmet thank you! I didn't know we even had nettle here. I grew up being aware of poison ivy and poison oak, but that's about it, never was I warned about stinging nettle.

    • @elliehjemmet
      @elliehjemmet 4 года назад +1

      @@Goldenretriever-k8m We have nettle growing along roadsides. Dogbane likes it's feet wet (learned that when I tried to transplant some dogbane at home and it didn't survive). I have a friend who successfully built a large colony on her property alongside a little stream. I used to collect it by the Watauga River. I'm in upper east TN near NC border.

  • @agypsycircle
    @agypsycircle 4 года назад

    Just a question, can you do this with flax as well as the nettle fibers? Never mind, you answered at the end lol!

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  4 года назад +1

      Pretty much any fibre source will work

  • @donnadees7031
    @donnadees7031 3 года назад

    oh, thank you for saving srtwork.

  • @DarkMoonDroid
    @DarkMoonDroid 4 года назад

    Ohmygosh.
    Sub'ing.
    This is such a valuable skill.
    I'm going to guess that this type of cordage only shows up in places where plants grow. So, how did people in the Arctic lands make cord? Was it all leather? Gut? Fur? Feathers?
    Also, how do you find plants in your area that would work? I don't live around flax and nettle. How would I test the grasses and plants to see if they will work for this?

    • @DarkMoonDroid
      @DarkMoonDroid 4 года назад

      Oh, yeah!
      How many Ancient cultures do you think used this?
      Is there a map somewhere that shows this?
      What other methods were used and where?

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  4 года назад +1

      This type of work appears to go back thousands of years anywhere you have materials that lend themselves to cordage. Elsewhere thonging, sinew and gut is often used extensively. As to which materials, it's often worth looking at the indigenous communities (or their archaeological record if they are no longer around) in your own area to see what they prized for cordage. Try your local bushcraft people too, see what they like for cordage. Otherwise it's a case of trying things to see what works well. What part of the world are you in?

    • @DarkMoonDroid
      @DarkMoonDroid 4 года назад

      @@SallyPointer
      I'm in upper Sacramento County, California. This place has been so completely destroyed by Gold Miners that the Natives packed up and left. The environmental devastation was total. I've tried to figure out where they went but it was pretty far North and I'm not sure I can afford the trip.
      I would have to bash my way thru the bush myself to see what's here and I don't want to do that alone. I don't know where to find local bushcraft people. There are alot of Homeless living on the River, but I don't want to approach them.
      What am I looking for, tho? What qualities?

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  4 года назад +2

      A quick look online suggests you have nettles in much of California, otherwise you are looking for plants with bast layers that peel away to leave fibres. If you have a glance through my other cordage videos at the nettle, horseradish, bramble, burdock and even rhubarb cordage, you'll see that although they are all very different, the fibres peel away from the core well. You might also have things like yucca and fibrous desert plants that we don't get here as you are a bit warmer. Half the fun is experimenting, and also try making cordage from strips of paper, that works well too.

    • @DarkMoonDroid
      @DarkMoonDroid 4 года назад +1

      @@SallyPointer
      Awesome!
      Thank you, so much!
      💐

  • @deborahboykin5900
    @deborahboykin5900 2 года назад +1

    is this technique what they used to made nets in the olden days, you know James and John his brother the sons of Zebideh?

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  2 года назад +1

      Most ancient nets, right back into prehistory, use a netting knot very much the same as the ones used today

  • @Noblebird02
    @Noblebird02 2 года назад

    Why haven't we found any pre-roman bog bodies with nalbinding clothing articles?

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  2 года назад +2

      Bog bodies are incredibly rare, ones with clothing even more so. In bogs, plant fibres rarely survive so we mostly get wool and leather. The surviving looped fragments from the Mesolithic onwards are generally from waterlogged sites, but not associated with bog bodies

    • @Noblebird02
      @Noblebird02 2 года назад

      @@SallyPointer thankyou for your prompt reply. I have seen reproductions bronze Age hairnets on Etsy and I was wondering if a late iron Age Gaul would have been familiar with nalebinding or if it was invented in late antiquity

  • @animalloverabh
    @animalloverabh 3 года назад

    How do you finish the end of the cordage please?

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  3 года назад +1

      A few tight stitches close together is generally enough.

  • @uxb1112
    @uxb1112 Год назад +1

    Flax plants Linnen fibres?

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  Год назад

      That's right! It's a peculiarity of the English language that we call it flax when it's in the ground and linen when you wear it.

  • @ReltubTheWiz
    @ReltubTheWiz 2 года назад +1

    . . . . and I thought it was only Microsoft that had ten different ways of doing the same thing!

  • @sakura2hime
    @sakura2hime 5 лет назад

    can you make the loop tighter?

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  5 лет назад +1

      Of course, you can work at any tension that suits your project, from a very dense, solid fabric to something very open and airy. Have a go and let me know how you get on!

  • @ragnkja
    @ragnkja 2 года назад +2

    “Nal” in Norwegian means “squeegee”; the word for “needle” is “nål”, which rhymes with the English word “all”. Although since you’re pronouncing “binding” in English rather than using the Norwegian pronunciation, why not just call it “needlebinding”?

    • @LynxSouth
      @LynxSouth 2 года назад +1

      Because people have always 'borrowed' words from other languages, and the closer everyone stays to 'nalbinding', the easier it is for the word to be recognized internationally. That makes it easier for a Dutchwoman and a Pole to both find videos and written material about it, even if the info is in Swedish or English. It's the same reason soccer/football in French is 'le football'.

    • @annedavis3340
      @annedavis3340 2 года назад +1

      I do want to say, this was unfortunately somewhat unhelpful to me as a native English speaker. What she is saying does rhyme with "all" in my accent, which is the common one selected for by most American news stations as fairly universally-intelligible nation-wide
      I've gone to look up a video of someone showing how å is pronounced and it seems pretty far from the a in at least our "all."
      I think a reasonable interpretation is she or the person she learned from DID try looking it up and indeed tried to pronounce it correctly following IPA's instructions.
      Maybe it would be better in future to refer people to a video wherein someone shows the pronunciation of å
      But thanks for alerting me that the instruction that, no, it SHOULD rhyme with "all" was meant for someone else, I was very glad to learn the new correction
      (I apologize if this sounds snarky, it is not meant to. I am thankful)

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 2 года назад

      @@annedavis3340
      For the IPA definition, it’s an open-mid back vowel, and not an open back vowel as heard here. Or you could just say “needle” unless you’re using a Scandinavian pronunciation of “binding”, and most English speakers can’t get the tone right for that one.

    • @annedavis3340
      @annedavis3340 2 года назад

      @@ragnkja I agree with the prior commenter that it's wise to keep the same term others use since it's not a well-known craft and could splinter away into obscurity if all the resources split by who calls it what

    • @ragnkja
      @ragnkja 2 года назад

      @@annedavis3340
      I think the main reason the word “nalbinding” bothers me so much is that it implies either the binding of a squeegee or the use of a squeegee to bind something, neither of which is even remotely what _nålbinding_ is.

  • @dr.lexwinter8604
    @dr.lexwinter8604 4 года назад +1

    There's no limit to cordage, you splice another piece in on each end as needed, never start in the middle of a strand though or you end up with your splices being at the same point as one another, stagger them for maximum blending and you can make cordage until you run out of material. Also what on earth is wrong with your flax? It looks dead and lifeless! Mine looks like a woman's hair even ten years on, I use it to make cloth clothing out of and other fabric, and the only colour change I get is if I dye it. But yours looks like an old wooden fence! Did you leave it outdoors for a long time or something? Now I'm worried mine will fade like that in the sun over time, no more raw flaxen cloth for me! :/

    • @SallyPointer
      @SallyPointer  4 года назад +3

      Each batch is different, but there's nothing wrong with this lot, just a silvery grey, it's got plenty of lustre in real life. Re the splices, for cord-as-you-go projects, I find even spicing with just one or two fibres added at a time at regular intervals gives for the smoothest, most consistent cord, but if you prefer a different method, go for it. There's always more than one way to do things. My main concern is to get people away from splicing in on just one side in big chunks, which leads to spiky, weak joins.