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Draicraeft 'nalbinding' Bone needle creations in rare Sheep Breed Wool

Draicraeft 'nalbinding' Bone needle creations in rare Sheep Breed Wool

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Keeping alive Nålebinding ancient wool craft. Also the creation of quality wool clothing, hand stitched and created with an eye for detail. Artist and Dark age re-enactor passionate about ancient sheep breeds and the techniques of Nålebinding. With a single bone needle you can travel back in time to a ancient craft creating warm clothing items. Alternatively you can create modem fun funky items giving life to creative art with a magical bone needle. A famous piece of nålbinding is the 'Coppergate sock' found during an excavation of the Coppergate area of York. A clear Viking influence in the textiles was found in the finds in this area. This was a wool sock that had been created using a technique never before recorded in England. The sock was slipper-like in style and would have covered the whole foot. Nålbinding was used in some regions of Northern Europe until the 1950s, when it most likely declined because of the changes in the textile industry and almost disappeared. It later gained renewed interest among many textile historians, archaeologists, craftsmen and re-enactors, so that it is today an exciting handicraft born again tradition

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As lover of wool, I am passionate about supporting ancient sheep breeds. I use 100 % wool from Soay, Shetland, Welsh Mountain, Jacob, Iceland and Hebridean sheep with a single bone needle an ancient technique called Nalbinding. Trading Viking https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Draicraeft?ref=seller-platform-mcnav

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Nalbinded Mittens, Made to Order, Viking mittens as grave finds Nålebinding, kinnas, Naalbinding, Viking, Anglo Saxon, Medieval, Re-enactmen

Nalbinded Mittens as 10th century viking mittens grave finds from Iceland and Sweden.
Made to order.
Handmade finished with tablet weave to the cuff and a bronze ring to attach to your coat.

Mittens made in 100 % wool and Jacobs wool
All natural colours. Piebald Sheep or Jacobs as they are often called that date back to the Viking age!

Made to ode to you size
A custom size to fit you exactly
I will send you a size detail chart to fill in 💚

Mammen Naldinded stitch
Beautiful warm waterproof wool

Please contact me if you require a different size
happy to help

~MITTEN ARCHEOLOGY~

The photo archeology is of the Needlebind mitten Lödöse Sweden museum dated 1000-1200. There is also archaeology of two nalbinded mittens from Iceland, believed to date to the 10th century CE.
Mitten from Arneiðarstaðir, Fljótsdalhérad, east Iceland. Made from Nålebinding in Oslo stitch/Type IIa, the mitten was discovered in 1889 and described in 1895 by Pálmi Pálsson as being 26cm long, 12 cm wide, and dated 10th century.

Called Nålbindning in the native Swedish it is also known in English as nalbinding, nalebinding, nalbindning, naalbinding, nailbinding, naalebinding or needle binding

Nalbinding is an ancient technique used to produce hats, socks, mittens and other woolen goods using a single short needle and lengths of woolen yarn

The oldest nalbound fragments found in Finland are approximately from 1000 CE.
Striped fragments of a mitten from Eura early 1000 CE (southwest Finland)
Fragments from Masku and Köyliö 1050 CE (southwest Finland), and a striped fragment of a mitten in Kekomäki in Kaukola (Ceded Carelia; the area nowadays belongs to Russia)
Fragments of two separate mittens from Tuukkala (East Finland), all from 1200 CE.