Nalbinding – It's Not Knitting - Sally Pointer

Nalbinding – It’s Not Knitting by Sally Pointer is a practical guide to needle-looped textile techniques drawn from historical sources. This paperback edition presents contemporary projects alongside step-by-step photographic instruction.

Key details

• Author: Sally Pointer
• Subtitle: Heritage techniques for the contemporary textile crafter
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 160
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Publication date: 15 January 2026

Synopsis

Designed for crafters ready to set knitting aside and try something both ancient and adaptable, this book explores nalbinding: loop-manipulated textiles worked with a single needle. Traced back to the Mesolithic period and still practised in Scandinavia, the techniques can produce fabric that resembles knitting or open mesh similar to netting, from dense and warm to light and airy, using thick woollen yarns or fine plant fibres.

Across 20 projects, Sally Pointer introduces stitches and methods associated with periods from the Stone Age and Bronze Age to Ancient Egypt and medieval Scandinavia. Clear photographic steps guide you through makes including a knotless netting shopping bag inspired by a Neolithic textile fragment, a messenger bag using Oslo, Mammen and Dalby stitches, and practical staples such as pixie hats, socks, slippers and mittens. Suitable for contemporary textile crafters interested in heritage techniques.

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