At 11:54 AM 8/29/04 +1000, Elizabeth Ligeti wrote: >It is called Naalbinding, and has come down though the centuries from the >Bronze Age, I believe.
Naalbinding is worked in the air, and creates a fabric -- it was used to make stockings and mittens before the introduction of knitting. I believe that my embroidery dictionary includes several stitches that consist of naalbinding (under different names that usually include the words "detached" and "filling") worked over the surface of fabric, anchored into other stitches that are worked into the fabric. I once found a very good description of naalbinding on the Regia Angelorum website, but that was three computers ago and I no longer have the URL. I was once told by an expert on naalbinding that interlocking buttonhole stitch, as used in needle lace, is naalbinding of complexity zero. The characteristic stitch that looks like twisted knitting, is (I *think*) of complexity one. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
