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I’m kinda surprised that nalbinding isn’t as popular as crochet and knitting tbh because it has an even lower barrier of entry tools wise and unlike crochet and knitting it makes fabric that you can cut.

Nalbinding aka needle binding is when you use yarn and a big sewing needle to make fabric btw

Yeah I hadn’t heard of it until recently and I ordered a big bone needle for myself to try it out and that should be arriving soon.

You also don’t need a bunch of different sized needles for nalbinding or whatever. The size of the stitch is controlled either completely freehand or by pulling it against one of your fingers. Most people who have a lot of nalbinding needles seem to either have tried out wood, bone, and metal ones to see which kind they liked or they enjoy carving wood or bone and like making their own needles as an extra hobby.

I found this channel by a nice man who makes up close tutorials

😭 how do u win the idgaf war when it comes to shipping

one thing that having spinning/weaving as a hobby while being a marxist will teach you is that people in the first world, in 2025, take fabric way too for granted. for the vast majority of humans who have ever lived, fabric was something made by someone they knew. their grandmother. their neighbor. their sister. themselves. all the blankets, towels, underclothing, bandages, sacks, were made by somebody they could name. wealthy households, who had to keep up appearances to maintain power, had legions of impoverished women working in horrific conditions to provide them with embroidery, with lace, with elegantly dyed fabrics, in colors that commoners were forbidden from wearing. later, in the united states, different grades of cotton were sorted so as to be worn by different races: there were lower grades of cotton fabric that were reserved to be used for the clothing of enslaved Black people, the people who were forced via unthinkable violence to produce the cotton. entire generations of families enslaved and tortured, mass death, rape, and mutilation, the origin point of white supremacy, so that cotton could be grown cheaply as possible, generating vast wealth for white people, and providing white citizenry with cheap clothing. meanwhile higher grade cotton, that white people would purchase, was sent north to the cities, where it was spun and woven by immigrant children (mostly young girls) who were paid pennies for it. today all this labor is hidden from your average citizen of the imperial core. the enslaved people growing our cotton are prisoners and foreigners, people we can, if we want to, forget. the teenage girls dying in factory fires are asian and latina, living in countries you can't point to on a map

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