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! ❤

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!

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.

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!

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!

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!

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

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.

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

This is interesting will try that with yarn and yarn needle

Simple amazing everlasting skills thank you!

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!

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.

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!

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

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.

amazing work!, thanks for sharing

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

Thank you! ❤

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!

This reminds me of crochet.

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

Fascinating

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!

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

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

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

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 !

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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 ♥ ♥ ♥

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

Fantastic work. Bless you.

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

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

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 ...

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

Impressive class! Thank you :)

Fascinating!

Just LOVE it!

Wow❤

This is brilliant!

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

Thank you

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?

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

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

Awsome!!

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. :)

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

nice one!

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.

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

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

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).

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?

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

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!

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.

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? 🤔

I wonder if these could be used as fish nets.

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

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?

oh, thank you for saving srtwork.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

How do you finish the end of the cordage please?

can you make the loop tighter?

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

Flax plants Linnen fibres?

“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”?

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! :/