Bone sewing needle / knitting needle, nålebinding, early Middle Ages

Bone sewing needle / knitting needle, nålebinding, early Middle Ages

Knitting needle / Large bone sewing needle for nålebinding
 
This robust knitting/sewing needle made of animal bone is primarily used for nålebinding. It differs from modern knitting needles due to the hole for threading the yarn. Unlike modern sewing needles, it is also much wider in circumference, and the tip of the nålebinding needle is blunt so that you do not accidentally pierce the wool yarn. 
The knitting needle for nålebinding is very well suited for creating your own historical garments, such as hats and gloves. The oldest nålebinding finds date back to the Stone Age. Consequently, nålebinding is much older than knitting or crochet and can be considered a precursor to modern craft techniques. Finds related to nålebinding date back to the Early Middle Ages, meaning that textiles from antiquity and the Viking Age, for example, can also be reconstructed. 
Unlike knitting, nålebinding is done with only one needle. The advantage of this craft technique is that ladders cannot form, as the individual stitches are 'knotted' during the process. In nålebinding, the yarn is also cut for each row of stitches, making this form of needlework very suitable for using up yarn scraps. The resulting fabric is also nicely firm and dense. 
This bone needle can also be used as a large sewing needle, though only for knitted projects with wide stitches or elastic threads, as otherwise, its blunt tip will not penetrate the material, and the width of the large needle would leave holes in the fabric.

Suitable for many eras: Stone Age, Antiquity, Early Middle Ages

Dimensions:

• Length: approx. 8.5 cm
• Diameter: approx. 5.5 mm
• Hole diameter: 2.5 x 6 mm
• Weight: approx. 5 g.

Price per sewing needle!