Loop-and-Twist: an Ancient Form of Nalbinding

This ancient form of nalbinding is a variant on Simple Looping and is particularly well suited to cord as you go methods using plant fibres.

[rosaeaton]

You are very good at presenting complicated information in an accessible and unintimidating way. It is a real gift. I am terribly charmed by your videos and I'm delighted to learn the old ways.

[phubblewubbphubblewubb]

I'm loving this! I'd forgotten that 50 years ago I made a hay net for my pony out of the strings which bound the hay bales together, in the days before the horrid nylon strings they use now. I also recall most women had an expandable net shopping bag presumably made in a similar way! Glad to have found you Sally.

[pedroferreira]

I never thought I could be interested in cordage making, net making or basket/bag making! It is surprising what you can be interested in by finding the right instructor! Many thanks to you for teaching this to me. And please keep on doing videos, they are really nice to watch.

[ReltubTheWiz]

Wow! When I’m crocheting in the round I had no idea that the basic technique goes all the way back to the neolithic!

[TejasChew]

Dear Sally,

Everything about your channel is just superb! Your personality, your accent, and your KNOWLEDGE! Alongside your impeccable inclination for imparting it!

[historybuff]

I have done one with linen (flaxed processed into yarn). I had some left over flax. It wasn't quite tow, but it was the left over shorter fingers I didn't use in a spinning project. It got old because I didn't want to spin shorten length of flax. I corded it and made the loop and twist bag. I liked doing it, and had a satifying feeling getting something useful out of unwanted flax.

[JayCWhiteCloud]

Dear Sally...I do not often comment, yet wish to share, on this one, how deeply I appreciate fellow indigenous life skills creators/facilitators now providing content like this. We, and those now learning, have taken full advantage of this format of documentation to effectively preserve and share so much ancient knowledge that before most folks could not learn or appreciate the complexity of the "made world" humans have existed in for eons. Now with a field like "experimental archeology, " which I would of loved to have gotten a chance to work in while in college, we are seeing even deeper understanding and sharing of these vernacular skills.

In this video you share a foundational skill I learned as a child, and have since come to see as a fundamental acquirement for those who practice traditional living at some level. I am wondering if you have come across any in academia that study such textiles as the foundational beginning of our species starting to understand the complexities of mathematics as it relates to the inherent application of geometric shapes, patterns, symmetry, and counting involved for the process of creating textiles? I believe many fail to understand that all of these..."primitive hand crafts"...(as many erroneously call them) hold within them all the cognitive elements of geometric patterning, reflectional symmetry mathematics, grid systematics, ratio application, transformations, sequencing, fractal patterning, and countless others that "modern humans" are just now beginning to really analysis with the help of computers...yet...our species have had this fundamental understanding at very complex levels for millenia.

Thank you once more for a wonderful video...

[samanthaperrin]

its a "bagsket" !!!
this is soo cool. i love the idea of raffia to play with thanks!!!

[zimtt]

Love the chicken wire/honeycomb look. I have a bunch of Crocosmia leaves, dried and waiting for this project. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.🐔🐝❤

[Vimby]

I like the fact that you don’t have to make all the ‘yarn’ before you can start on creating a bag.

[Beryllahawk]

This is great!!! And thank you so so much for pointing out that raffia WILL work, I'm one of those that doesn't have much access to "wild grasses" as it were (or rather, there might be plenty of local plants that would work but I've no idea how to evaluate them). And this technique is so nice! I kept thinking as I watched that it's not unlike the sort of knot used for tying up a roast, haha. I suppose I have food and cooking on my mind since it's the morning after US Thanksgiving as I watch this! But that little extra twisting bit really seems like what I was told is a surgeon's knot: start like an overhand knot and put the string through twice. (Which I recognize might not at all be the actual knot, but boy is reading up on knots, macrame, etc VERY confusing for the newbie)
The bag design seems so versatile, too. Carry whatever you need - though my Oma might've called that a bread bag. But she grew up in what's now Poland, and lived many years in Germany between the two world wars: she used to tell me about going to the bakery every day and bringing home a little bag of Sammeln - which means "rolls" in German technically, but Oma seemed to use it to also mean some kind of small loaf of bread. But the way she described her bag, it had that net like structure. I don't doubt it was machine made and probably out of whatever material was cheap for the time and place, but that wasn't the kind of thing she discussed.
Lovely video and so nice to see you again! Thank you!

[sarahhanrahan]

Oh before I forget. The outer leaves of sweet corn can be torn when fresh into short raffia like strips when dried

[resourcedragon]

30 Nov 2024, Oh, dear, another temptation to buy a nalbinding needle.

I do not need any more crafts in my life.
I do not need any more crafts in my life.
I do not need any more crafts in my life.

If I just keep repeating it, maybe I'll believe it...

If I were going to make one of these bags I'd probably be looking at it as a shopping bag.

[kimdegener]

As soon as I finished watching this video, I ordered raffia. I want to try making market bags. Thank you so much for all the brilliant videos.

[archeanna]

Thank you so much. I get it that I'm supposed to be dazzled by things that are made out of recycled plastic, only to find out that the plastic is much more resistant to any form of natural deterioration after the recycling process. I'm inspired to discover what I can create that will be perfect for my needs using this method.
Brilliant !!!

[Amritadivya]

I took a weaving without a loom class back in the early 70's in California. This same technique was taught using the name "knotless netting". The class btw was part of a college summer school class that also taught spinning and natural dye techniques. So much fun!

[maggietaylor]

Excellent....my goats are treading on their beautiful organic hay but im going to get busy with a hay net using this technique...thankyou for an excellent tutorial ❤😊

[cindyharrelson]

Your interesting video caught my eye, as I spent 25 years in Papua New Guinea, and learned how to make several versions of their Bilum bags. The older generations did indeed use many kinds of fibers including from tree bark. Now they pretty much use commercial yarns, and wind two strands together on their thigh to make a sturdier string. What you are doing appears to be another stitch variation of the same craft.

[Ravencall]

The soak information is so useful! As a beginner, just playing around with material from my yard, oversoaking was a setback!

[Max-ekdn]

Exactly what i was looking for. Im always so thankful for you taking the time to share/make these vids.

Also you mentioned "in literature" on the difference of baskets and nets, id love if you could share a title or two