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Anne Marie Decker

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Nalbinding Researcher

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Anne Marie Decker @sigkit.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Beans and faces make up today's Nazca Nalbound Object of the Week. This 2nd cent CE tunic border is in the The Walters Art Museum The central band has beans worked out of the upper edge and fully haired faces hanging below. The “hair” fringe is in very nice condition. nalbound.com/2026/03/03/n...
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NOW: Beans & Faces border fragment – 2011.20.5
The Walters Art Museum has a lovely example of a border fragment from Peru worked in Z-crossed Cross-knit looping variant that is this week’s Nalbound Object of the Week. The central band has…
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Anne Marie Decker @sigkit.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Today's Nalbound Object of the Week is another Egyptian sock, but this one is a bit unusual in that it is primarily made of linen.* It does have some dark blue/green and yellow wool on it. nalbound.com/2026/02/24/n...
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NOW: Linen child’s sock with blue-green and yellow wool stripes III 15476
This week’s Nalbound Object features a unique child’s sock made primarily of linen, with small amounts of blue/green and yellow wool incorporated in decorative elements. The surviving p…
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Anne Marie Decker @sigkit.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
For today’s Nalbound Object of the Week we get a two for one special. The left sock was in Berlin, but has been lost since WWII. Its likely mate is in Ludwigsbourg. The two socks were both bought from the same dealer in 1890 and listed as presumably from Akhmim, Egypt. nalbound.com/2026/02/18/n...
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NOW: Lost Red Sock – 9804 & Found Mate – GT 4498
For today’s Nalbound Object of the Week we get a two for one special. The left sock was in Berlin, but has been missing since World War II. Luckily, they had taken really nice (B&W) photo…
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Anne Marie Decker @sigkit.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Continuing with the theme of African nalbinding, this week's Nalbound Object of the Week is another Congalese Prestige Cape dating to pre-1853. Made from raffia palm fiber, the stitch has often been mistaken for sprang. nalbound.com/2026/02/10/n...
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NOW: Bakongo Nkutu (Prestige Cape) – Af1853,0713.1
Continuing with another African Nalbound Object of the Week, this stunning nkutu (prestige cape) comes from mid-19th century Congo. While the tradition of net-like garments being worn by high ranki…
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Anne Marie Decker @sigkit.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This week's Nalbound Object of the Week is a lovely red hat with a blue and yellow silk patterned wrap around its point/tassel from 11th-13th century CE Arsinoë/Krokodilopolis, Egypt. It's one of the few artifacts that include more than one type of nalbinding. nalbound.com/2026/02/04/n...
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NOW: Red hat with tassel – 9318
If you are in Berlin this week, you can catch the Nalbound Object of the Week on display in the Auf unbetretenen Wegen: Georg Schweinfurth und die Ägyptologie exhibition at the Neues Museum before …
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Anne Marie Decker @sigkit.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This week we take a closer look at the 17th cent mitten found in the ramparts of Copenhagen for our Nalbound Object of the Week. Like many mittens of this time, it has some tar stains. If you look very closely, there is some 2-toned embroidery around the cuff edge. nalbound.com/2026/01/20/n...
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NOW: Mitten with embroidered cuff – D7403b
While I’ve mentioned this Nalbound Object of the Week in an earlier post, link here, I did not include the find data. So this week we take a closer look at the 17th century mitten found in th…
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Anne Marie Decker @sigkit.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
www.facebook.com/share/p/1HLW... 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: nalbound.com/2021/02/21/c... #nalbinding #museum
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Anne Marie Decker @sigkit.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
For today's Nalbound Object of the Week we have some true figural work out of Peru. This time it's a singular effigy figure, not a border of figures. And, it's a viscacha, which are so adorable! nalbound.com/2025/12/30/n... #nalbinding #Peru #SimpleLooping
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NOW: Viscachas figural effigy – 46-77-30/7651C
I hope everyone’s winter holiday season is going well and that the new year be all you need it to be. For this week’s Nalbound Object of the Week we got a viscacha figure/effigy. I love…
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Anne Marie Decker @sigkit.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
As the holidays gear up, I find myself thinking of stockings...* So this week's Nalbound Object of the Week is a lovely example of Egyptian compound nalbinding. Ostensibly from the 4th century,** but its specific find location and strata was not recorded. nalbound.com/2025/12/23/n...
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NOW: Child’s sock with orange, blue and yellow stripes – III 15474
For a person that has spent a lot of time examining stockings, this is an excellent time of the year. The Museum der Kulturen Basel has the largest collection of Egyptian nalbinding1 and they just …
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Anne Marie Decker @sigkit.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Today's Nalbound Object of the Week is hat/cap from the Cliff-Dweller culture in what is now Northeastern Arizona. The shoe-socks from this region are more well known, so I am happy to be able to include this cap in the series. nalbound.com/2025/11/18/n... #nalbinding #nalbound #nålbindning
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NOW: Arizona Cliff-dweller skullcap – 14-5-10/A1260
Generally when we talk about nalbinding from the Southwest United States, we are talking about socks or shoe-socks or possibly leggings. This week’s Nalbound Object of the Week is unusual in …
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Anne Marie Decker @sigkit.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
If you are interested in the early blue & white knitted socks found in Egypt, the Museum der Kulturen Basel has put their collection online. 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: nalbound.com/2025/11/04/b...
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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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Nele N @nelefinn.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
One of the absolute amazing moments on our trip to Sweden was seeing these two hand covers side by side. At the front, probably the most known #Nalbinding mitten, the Åsle mitten and at the back the Kalmar glove. (Yes, we also saw the Lödöse mitten, but in different museum). #CraftingScience 🧶
Two nalbound hand covers, at front the Åsle mitten in reddish-brown yarn and wide cuff. Åsle mitten lays on white support blank. At back the Kalmar glove is greyish brown and and the researcher is holding the wrist open with gloved hand. Kalmar glove lays on paper little lower than the Åsle mitten.
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Anne Marie Decker @sigkit.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
While I was in Sweden to examine some of their medieval nalbinding, I had the chance to sit down with Återskapat and my friends Nele and Ingela and have a good long chat about nalbinding. You can join us at the table here: aterskapat.libsyn.com/terskapat-10...
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Återskapat: Återskapat - 103 - Nalbinding
In this episode we talk about the art and history of the nalbinding technique. When did it start? Where was it used? Did the vikings use nalbinding?     With: Anne Marie Decker, Nele Nuutin...
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Anne Marie Decker @sigkit.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
My presentation has been accepted. "Knee-length nalbound stockings from medieval Scandinavia: Two previously unexamined examples" will be in the DISTAFF & MEDATS sponsored session "For Dress and Textiles (1): Tools and Techniques" May 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI
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