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Lucet and Nalbinding/Needlehitching

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Mrs Glenys Chew:
Hi,

I've recently come across a lady who lucets braids.  I met her at a craft fair.

She demonstrated it to me on her fingers, but it actually has it's own unique tool, and is described as a form of French knitting, but it's traceable back to Viking, and possibly Roman times.  See http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en-GB&client=mv-google&v=OPspr81RBVk and http://m.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=en-GB&client=mv-google&v=IzFNb_8noec for demos, and http://www.thelucet.co.uk/lucet_vocabulary.htm for some very ornate braids on an adapted lucet.  (Sorry, my phone won't post embedded hyperlinks).

I also picked up linked videos for finger-crochet, and then I noticed this:

Nalbinding, also known by several other names, including naalbinden and needle-hitching.  But I haven't seen as many types of 'stitch' listed for needle-hitching in Stewart Grainger's Ropecraft as there apparently are for nalbinding.

Are there many similarities, or many differences?  I note that nalbinding is specifically done with 'short' lengths of cord, rather than a continuous length.

Regards,
Glenys

Sweeney:
There is a similar tool in ABOK (#2875) called by Ashley a "chain fork".

Barry

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