This unorganized collection of links is a tiny fragment of what’s available on the internet — if you know how to phrase your search request. The spam-bots are quick to find my pages so I’ve turned off comments on everything except my blog. But I’d love to know if you find a great looping link or run across a broken link here. You can email me here.
- New Age Looping Study Group on Facebook. To post on the page, you must be a member, but you can see postings without joining Facebook. Posts here became rare when aging parent care started to take more if my time but if you look back there are some gems.
- DIY Waxed Linen Thread — a video I posted on YouTube.
- Mielke’s Fiber Arts — source for books on looping (including mine) and nalbinding
- Nalbinding site in English with many great videos (Finnish with English captions)
- Another collection of nalbinding videos
- Knotless Netting Stitch Variations from Susi Nuss’s BasketMakers site
- Rita Bartholomew’s Knots Indeed netting blog
- Rita Bartholomew’s web site
- Netting chapter from Therese de Dillemont’s Encyclopedia of Needlework
- Elizabeth Adams netting site
- Wikipedia nalebinding entry
- Medieval Muslim Knitting (naalbinding)
- Bernhard’s Nadelbinden Page
- Nalebinding Techniques In The Viking Age
- Miraculous Needlebinding Links
- String Page – Naalbinding
- Toothbrush Rugs
- Renie Breskin Adams
- Laverne Waddington’s tutorial on cross knit looping as an edging element
- Rebecca Nelson’s project recreating Nasca looping
- Video on contemporary bilum bags and garments
- Excellent e-book on bilum technique and history.
- English-version PDF catalog from Bast, Rushes, Stinging Nettles: Textile Materials from the Stone Age. Reproductions by Anne Reichert. Thanks to Lucienne Kramer and Susi Nuss for this link.
- Looping project by Robin Taylor Daugherty first published, I believe, in Piecework. Thanks to Donna Sakamoto Crispin for this link.
- Looping project by Susi Nuss on Basketmakers.com. More fun links to follow, too!
- Video on cutting away an error in a naalbinding sock.
- Video on bilum making, showing the unique way they draw through the entire length of thread. Thanks to Donna Sakamoto Crispin and Poppy Hatinger for this link.
- This PDF of a 1935 American Anthropologist article, “Knotless Netting in America and Oceania,” has diagrams of several stitch variations.
- Nalbinding — excellent instructions and diagrams for Oslo stitch you can print out as a PDF.
- Left-handed instructions for lace netting. Right-handed instructions and more, too, from the home page.
- Excellent needle lace article by Jean Leader, with analysis on the structure of point de gaze technique drawn from study of museum collection. Calls the “away” needle orientation Continental Method.
- Looping on net floats. Thank you to Donna Sakamoto Crispin for this link.
- Russian Join technique for adding thread, from Knit Picks.
- Wired Needlelace Elements for Stumpwork by Elizabeth Braun.
- Design process for a needle lace project by Jean Leader.
- Ancient Fibers: Interview with Dr. Irene Good
- Nets from British Pathe (1954 netting video — amazing)
- Net Making from ropeandcanvas (good tools and jigs, and an alternative to the weaver’s knot for adding on).
- Interview with Papua New Guinea bilum maker Cathy Kata
- Facebook page for Papua New Guinea Bilum
- Survey of Looped Textiles of New Guinea by Susan Guagliumi
- Väkerrystä – Dabbling in Nalbinding
- Ayoreo looped bags from Bolivian lowlands in bromeliad fiber.
- Chacara bags from Panama
- Kenmare Lace Technique video
- Hansen’s Notation System for explaining the U’s and O’s system of nalbinding instruction.
- Needle lace tutorials.
- Nalbinding socks — methods of construction
- Nalbinding strainers — spinning the hair fiber (I believe) begins at 6:00, stitching the strainer at 7:50, adding thread at 9:39.