Sally Pointer
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Sally Pointer brings you objects, skills, and inspiration from the past, to enrich the future. Find my website at www.sallypointer.com Sally is a heritage educator, researcher, maker and demonstrator of traditional skills based in the UK, and works with museums and heritage organisations worldwide to promote an understanding of the past through hands on experience. She posts about ancient technology, craft skills, foraging, food, costuming and some of the adventures she goes on.

Make a Seamless Woven Pouch
Sally Pointer · 6.5K views · 1 month ago

The "Crescent" Patent Darner. An Edwardian aid to efficiency?
Sally Pointer · 2.4K views · 6 years ago

Exploring the Making of a Bronze Age Piled Hat
Sally Pointer · 71K views · 2 years ago

Making a Bronze Age Egtved Outfit: part one
Sally Pointer · 14K views · 6 years ago

Making String from Rhubarb!
Sally Pointer · 39K views · 7 years ago

Loop-and-Twist: an Ancient Form of Nalbinding
Sally Pointer · 66K views · 1 year ago

Nap Raising with a Fuller's Teasel
Sally Pointer · 3.8K views · 6 years ago

Joining Knots for Net Makers
Sally Pointer · 4.8K views · 5 months ago

How to 'Run a Heel'. Reinforcing knitting before it needs darning.
Sally Pointer · 19K views · 4 years ago

Minimum Effort Stinging Nettle Fibre
Sally Pointer · 60K views · 5 years ago

Preparing bramble fibres for cordage.
Sally Pointer · 39K views · 7 years ago

Growing Flax in a Plant Pot
Sally Pointer · 6.3K views · 2 months ago

Making 4-ply Cordage: Laid Cord vs Cabled Cord
Sally Pointer · 13K views · 3 years ago

Palaeolithic Crafts at Creswell Crags
Sally Pointer · 11K views · 5 years ago

'Nalbinding -it's not knitting' preview of my new book
Sally Pointer · 11K views · 8 months ago

Make a Sprang Bag with Handles: all over holes/ Haraldskaer pattern
Sally Pointer · 45K views · 3 years ago

October Update 2021
Sally Pointer · 4.2K views · 4 years ago

Make a Lavender Stalk Basket
Sally Pointer · 85K views · 5 years ago

Simple Cordage Instructions
Sally Pointer · 9.3K views · 7 years ago