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 or the group.
- 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.