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Nele N
@nelefinn.bsky.social
(She/her) Crafter, looped textiles researcher, textile nerd, Pokemon go trainer, feminist, herstory enthusiast.
https://nelesthoughtlets.blogspot.com/
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If you are interested in the early blue & white knitted socks found in Egypt, the Museum der Kulturen Basel has put their collection online.
As the search engine is a bit tricky as yet, I put together a blog post that includes them and a few from other institutions: nalbound.com/2025/11/04/b...
Blue and white knit stockings
Nalbinding isn’t the only corpus that is spread out across many institutions. Recently a number of museums have added to their online collection databases and we are now able to see quite a f…
nalbound.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I'm looking for book recomendations:
- Strong female characters
- Not gory, not crime, not just spice
- Writen in Finnish, Swedish or English
- No black leather for every Viking
Books I have enjoyed: 7 Sisters, Outlander, Anne of Green Gables
Books I haven't enjoyed: LotR, SoIaF
#Books #ReadingTips
November 3, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Two weeks ago I got to meet her!

I was very envious when so many of you were posting about the #Neanderthalerin exhibition earlier in the year, but two weeks ago I happened to be close enough to drop in for a quick look! And it was deffinetly worth the walk!

neanderthal.de/en/our-museu...
October 5, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Tämä ei ole hyvän mielen postaus, mutta ehkä syksyn tärkein postaukseni. Suosittelen kaikille tutkijoille ja tutkimusryhmille: käsitelkää törkyriskejä ja suunnitelkaa toimenpiteitä etukäteen yhdessä.

Lähiaikoina on tiettävästi odotettavissa törkyä tiedeyhteisöä kohtaan. Ketjusta muutama pikavinkki.
September 30, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I frogged a dormant project today. It was casted on on a whim to be knitted with my knitting machine. After 10 years of owning a knitting machine, I have come to the conclusion, that I don't like knitting with the machine and I don't think the sock blank-hype came to stay. It's time to say farewell.
September 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Löytyyköhän täältä ketään, joka osaisi avata disability studies -alan käypää suomenkielistä termistöä? Kamppailen käännöskysymysten kanssa.
September 4, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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August 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Ask and you shall be given.
📸 Dad
#YarnCrafts #AncientCrafts #SprangLoom 🧶
August 25, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine.

Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.
August 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Have you seen this sock (?)
"Current location unknown"
August 16, 2025 at 9:15 PM
If you were a #TextileNerd and had a day in #Berlin (Germany), what would you go and see? Destinations, say within an hour~ish, with bus/regional train are also considered.
August 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Althought crafts are very much part of the material world, crafting in the other hand is very strongly immaterial.

What aspects of the immateriality are the important factors for you in crafting?

🧶 #KnitSky #YarnCrafts #CraftingScience #MaterialCulture #SlowFashion
May 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Reading a pattern is a rather crucial skill to obtain... 🤦‍♀️
And being able to estimate how much 2,5m is might help too...
🧶 #Frivolite #LaceMaking #YarnCrafts
May 17, 2025 at 11:27 PM
How about some knee-high colourwork socks? (collections-gwu.zetcom.net/en/collectio... )

10 stitches and 15 rows, knitted with 1,5mm needles, in cotton-silk blend with 800m/100g.

#CraftingScience #ArchaeologicalTextiles
#YarnCrafts
#KnitSky
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May 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Have you seen this sock?

It has been at the collection of the German hosiery online museum, which has been closed down. Do you know which museum the physical object might be?
May 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is one of those occasions where @bsky.app would need more emotions to respond with!

I'm not saying I'm always perfect at collecting trash, but this is devastating, think about the bird with not one, but two bottle caps in their stomach!
One bird. 399 pieces of plastic. 55 g.
This is not our record.
May 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Does anyone know if any of the Fatimid/Mamluk knitted socks have been DNA typed for the cotton type or isotope analysed for the area of growth?
#TextileArchaeology #Egyptology 🏺
May 4, 2025 at 11:29 PM
www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...

Independent science is the quarantee that there will be inhabitable planet for the future generations, and a quarantee for that there will be future generations!
Lukijan mielipide | Donald Trump hyökkää ankarasti Harvardia vastaan, samoja merkkejä on myös Suomessa
Vapaa tiede ei ole tutkijayhteisön etuoikeus, vaan koko yhteiskunnan turva.
www.hs.fi
May 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Tieteentekijöiden liitto on huolissaan tieteen vapauden heikentymisestä niin kansainvälisesti kuin Suomessa. Viime aikojen tapahtumat osoittavat, että poliittinen valta pyrkii yhä avoimemmin ohjaamaan sitä, mitä tutkijat voivat tutkia, julkaista ja sanoa, liitto toteaa kannanotossaan.

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May 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
What (textile) crafting related question you would love to know answer to?
#KnitSky #YarnCrafts 🧶
April 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I'm crocheting an ovaloid project bag, and would prefer adding a sturding line at the top. As the shape is free form, the hoops I have won't work, what would you recomend instead?
🧶 #Crochet #Crocheting
April 22, 2025 at 5:46 PM
May he rest in peace, and may God grant endless wisdom to the cardinals who will gather to elect a new pope.
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Pope Francis has died on Easter Monday aged 88 - Vatican News
Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.
www.vaticannews.va
April 21, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Stories of crafting: "few" ball bands from the first ~20 years of my crafting history.
- 52 different manufacturers
- 16 handdyers
- 9 spinning fibre providers
I know these aren't all, I couldn't find any Red Heart bands or few others I can remember working with.
🧶 #Yarn
April 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Harvest New Year is turning up to be my favourite feast!
April 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
He is risen!
April 19, 2025 at 10:00 PM