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Hard to believe it has been 7 years since I was able to traveltothe Museum der Kulturen Basel. I posted a bit about our examinations of the slip stich crocheted sock that had been misinterpreted as nalbinding here:
https://nalbound.com/2021/02/21/coole_socke/
We are honored to have been able to publish our article on that sock in ATR which I talk about and link to here: https://nalbound.com/2023/01/31/newest-issue-of-atr-contains-our-article/
#nalbinding #Egypt #museum

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Anne Marie Decker Nov 7

If you are interested in the early blue & white knitted socks found in Egypt, there is exciting news. The Museum der Kulturen Basel has recently put their collection online, which includes quite a few examples of blue & white socks (or fragments thereof).
As the search engine is a bit tricky as yet, I put together a blog post that includes them and a few from other institutions: https://nalbound.com/2025/11/04/blue-and-white-knit-stockings/

#knitting #egypt #11thCentury #12thCentury #socks #textiles

Blue and white knit stockings

Nalbinding isn’t the only corpus that is spread out across many institutions. Recently a number of museums have added to their online collection databases and we are now able to see quite a f…

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