Nalbinding is sort-of related to needle lace and requires a giant
sewing needle with the hole for the thread at the blunt end.
Info about and pics of nalbinding needles at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ragnvaeig/2516822688/in/pool-
nalbindingnutters
However, the "bobbin" which Mark saw has a hole at the pointed end.
http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z43/tatmantats/lace/
antiquebobbin1.jpg
IMO it's more like a BL bobbin than a nalbinding needle, though I still
think it's a tool used for prodding something or boring a hole. The
notches on the other end suggest that one end was used to make a hole
in something and then a string/cord pulled through that hole using the
notches.
Of course we are all thinking it's textile related, but it may have
been used for something else:
a crude tool for "sewing" up a turkey after it was stuffed?
a mini dibber for planting seedlings?
some other use?
Brenda
Could this be a "nalbinding " needle, nal bin ding, originated in
Scandinavia
I think, and is a form of knitting (well sort of), using one sewing
needle,
usually crafted (whittled) from wood, pointy end and a "thread hole"
in the
other.
Brenda in Allhallows, Kent
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html
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