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Nalbinding

In this website you can find nalbinding videos, and instructions on how to make nalbinding mittens.

"In the past years nalbinding has become a 'fashionable' hobby"


- Toini-Inkeri Kaukonen,
62 years ago (1960)

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Russian Stitch 2+2+1  (Sakkola Stitch)


Rautjärvi (Finland)
Sakkola (Ceded Carelia, former Finland; area belongs to Russia since 1940)

Hansen's Notation
UUOOU/OUUOOO

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Russian Stitch 2+2+1  (Sakkola Stitch)
UUOOU/OUUOOO


You can read more about the Russian Stitch Family on page Stitch Grouping by Toini-Inkeri Kaukonen (link).
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In Finland this stitch type (RS 2+2+1) has been used at least in Sakkola (Soisalon-Soininen) and in Rautjärvi (NBA ethnology collection, label 9461:3, 2+2+1 F2; note on the label the text erroneously says "Turning Stitch").