As the holidays gear up, I find myself thinking of stockings...*
So this week's Nalbound Object of the Week is a lovely example of Egyptian compound nalbinding. Ostensibly from the 4th century,** but its specific find location and strata was not recorded.
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So this week's Nalbound Object of the Week is a lovely example of Egyptian compound nalbinding. Ostensibly from the 4th century,** but its specific find location and strata was not recorded.
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NOW: Child’s sock with orange, blue and yellow stripes – III 15474
For a person that has spent a lot of time examining stockings, this is an excellent time of the year. The Museum der Kulturen Basel has the largest collection of Egyptian nalbinding1 and they just …
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December 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
As the holidays gear up, I find myself thinking of stockings...*
So this week's Nalbound Object of the Week is a lovely example of Egyptian compound nalbinding. Ostensibly from the 4th century,** but its specific find location and strata was not recorded.
nalbound.com/2025/12/23/n...
So this week's Nalbound Object of the Week is a lovely example of Egyptian compound nalbinding. Ostensibly from the 4th century,** but its specific find location and strata was not recorded.
nalbound.com/2025/12/23/n...
Today's Nalbound Object of the Week is hat/cap from the Cliff-Dweller culture in what is now Northeastern Arizona. The shoe-socks from this region are more well known, so I am happy to be able to include this cap in the series.
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#nalbinding #nalbound #nålbindning
nalbound.com/2025/11/18/n...
#nalbinding #nalbound #nålbindning
NOW: Arizona Cliff-dweller skullcap – 14-5-10/A1260
Generally when we talk about nalbinding from the Southwest United States, we are talking about socks or shoe-socks or possibly leggings. This week’s Nalbound Object of the Week is unusual in …
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November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Today's Nalbound Object of the Week is hat/cap from the Cliff-Dweller culture in what is now Northeastern Arizona. The shoe-socks from this region are more well known, so I am happy to be able to include this cap in the series.
nalbound.com/2025/11/18/n...
#nalbinding #nalbound #nålbindning
nalbound.com/2025/11/18/n...
#nalbinding #nalbound #nålbindning
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...
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
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...
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...
Reposted by Anne Marie Decker
One of the absolute amazing moments on our trip to Sweden was seeing these two hand covers side by side. At the front, probably the most known #Nalbinding mitten, the Åsle mitten and at the back the Kalmar glove. (Yes, we also saw the Lödöse mitten, but in different museum). #CraftingScience 🧶
December 26, 2024 at 6:15 PM
One of the absolute amazing moments on our trip to Sweden was seeing these two hand covers side by side. At the front, probably the most known #Nalbinding mitten, the Åsle mitten and at the back the Kalmar glove. (Yes, we also saw the Lödöse mitten, but in different museum). #CraftingScience 🧶
While I was in Sweden to examine some of their medieval nalbinding, I had the chance to sit down with Återskapat and my friends Nele and Ingela and have a good long chat about nalbinding. You can join us at the table here: aterskapat.libsyn.com/terskapat-10...
Återskapat: Återskapat - 103 - Nalbinding
In this episode we talk about the art and history of the nalbinding technique. When did it start? Where was it used? Did the vikings use nalbinding? With: Anne Marie Decker, Nele Nuutin...
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December 29, 2024 at 6:27 PM
While I was in Sweden to examine some of their medieval nalbinding, I had the chance to sit down with Återskapat and my friends Nele and Ingela and have a good long chat about nalbinding. You can join us at the table here: aterskapat.libsyn.com/terskapat-10...
My presentation has been accepted. "Knee-length nalbound stockings from medieval Scandinavia: Two previously unexamined examples" will be in the DISTAFF & MEDATS sponsored session "For Dress and Textiles (1): Tools and Techniques" May 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI
November 11, 2024 at 5:33 AM
My presentation has been accepted. "Knee-length nalbound stockings from medieval Scandinavia: Two previously unexamined examples" will be in the DISTAFF & MEDATS sponsored session "For Dress and Textiles (1): Tools and Techniques" May 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI