The needle

 

 

The needle is the most imprtant implement for Needlebinding .
 
On this page I will show you which needles I use.

 

[First page] [The start] [The spiral] [The start from the middle] [How to join threads]
[The stitches] [My Nalbinding projects] [Nalbinding projects from others] [Linklist]

How I prepared my first wooden needle myself.

I bought a dowel measuring 9 mm in diameter, made from beech wood, from a DIY store. I sawed off 9 cm of it.

I carved this small piece of round timber into a flat shape (about 2-3 mm thick) with a small pocketknife and also carved a tip.

I rounded the blunt side slightly.

The eye of the needle has not been drilled, but cut into with the tip of the pocketknife.

To finish I smoothed the needle with fine-grained sandpaper.

This needle has worked well for me and looks very precious now after using hand spun sheep's wool with all the lanoline in it.

You do not have to be a great craftsperson or good with timberworks to make you own small needle with a little bit of effort. The design is very simple, as you can see.

Obviously any kind of hardwood can be used to make a wooden needle. And also other tools apart from a small pocketknife can be useful. A good Instruction for mading a needle from naturewood can be find on the site of Museumsdorfs Düppel .

Other needles

Naturally needles can be made of different materials, such as bone, moose horn, which has been used for making needles in earlier times, or modern materials such as steel or hard plastics.

With steel needles the tips should be rounded. In the beginning I used a strong steel needle made for sewing sacks, but sometimes I pricked myself when going into the backward thumb stitch. Ever since I own wooden needles I prefer those for working.

Needles for sale

If someone liked to have a by hand manufactured wood needle,
then it can be ordered with me by email.

Email address:

(Note! The email address must be registered by hand into the Mail!)

 
Selbstgeschnitzte Buchenholznadel

Hand-carved needle made from beech wood.
The shine on this needle results from the use of hand spun wool, which still contained the natural lanoline

Nadelsortiment
 
Assorted needles from top to bottom in the order, in which I started using them:
 
  1. Carpet needle made of steel
     
  2. Sack needle made of steel
     
  3. Hand-carved needle in beech wood
     
  4. Finnish wooden needle made of Juniper
    (from Susanne Mensing-Varila)
     
  5. Beech wood needle from Iceland
    (von Marianne Guckelsberger)
     
  6. Wooden needle made of cherry wood
    (made by a friend who is a carpenter)
     

At the moment I use wooden needles and a needle from horn, with which I start the needlebinding projects as follows….,

 

[First page] [The start] [The spiral] [The start from the middle] [How to join threads]
[The stitches] [My Nalbinding projects] [Nalbinding projects from others] [Linklist]

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