Nalbinding for beginners
The ancient single needle craft you’ve never heard of, nalbinding has existed since 6500 BCE and became popular in the Viking period. Make a warm woollen hat in Oslo stitch. Materials included: handmade wooden needle and two skeins of wool.
Stinging nettle textiles
This short course will teach you the history and mythology of the nettle, why the archaeology of textiles matter, and how to make nettle thread using Bronze Age (2500-500 BCE) techniques. This amazing plant can be used as food, dye, fabric and medicine, and appears in fairy tales such as ‘The Wild Swans’, where a princess must break a spell by weaving eleven nettle shirts. In this course, you will only have to make thread!
Katie Sawyer 