Verena Mullins Naalbound socks..

[Martin Moser]

Hi Paul,

However I want to point out that she is the expert when it comes to knitting/naalbinding, and all matters dealing with string. She insists that there are extant socks that were not naalbound(binded), but were indeed knitted.

I find this very interesting and would like to know what actually is the earliest dating of such finds. Could you please ask your wife whether she has any sources on that?

Here is a drawing of how a sock found at Achmim Panopolis was made. Unfortunately there is no dating to it so it could be anything between ca. 150 and 850 AD (according to other, dated finds from there):



from: Frauberger, Heinrich. Antike und frühmittelalterliche Fussbekleidungen aus Achmim-Panopolis. Düsseldorf: 1896