Some people think that Nalbinding came before knitting. On Saturday I had my first opportunity to see it "in the flesh", when I met up with Tanya of the York Guild of WSD. She has done slippers and mittens in it, so of course I am now dying to have a go.
Here the bog men, executed in the 900's and found in marshes wore naalbinded garments. The first knitting mentioned, is from the 1400's. But where and when knitting oroginated, is very interresting.
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