Make a Sprang Bag with Handles: all over holes/ Haraldskaer pattern 

Same. This video sent me down a new fun rabbit hole 🤓

You will also find books on Sprang by typing the A with a little circle over it. I don't have Scandinavian Letters on my mobile phone, so I can't really show. In Sprang the A is pronounced like the OU in the English word YOUNG. And the R is sort of a "rolled" R as we would say in German... if that makes sense. 😊 Sprang is a Germanic / Nordic handicraft btw.

Enig = agreed!

I have long hair now, and if you ever need this info in the future, the Nautilus bun has been a game-changer for me. No more redoing my hair, it stays out of my way all day!

@@Just_Sara Thank you! I had to look that up. My hair is too short for that still. I can barely get it to stay in a loose French braid under a boonie hat. But a Nautilus Bun is how my aunt wore her hair when I was little! I am delighted to know what to call it. She had long hair almost the same texture as a horses tail. Straight like the tine on a rake. Impossible to curl and made a ponytail as thick and heavy as an anchor line for a tall ship. I was fascinated with it when I was little and tried to get her to let me brush it and do beautiful hairdos. But she had a tender scalp and couldn’t tolerate much of a child yanking on her head 🤣

Definitely not me over here on my pin loom... ;)

Same. Never heard of sprang and now l want to try it. Only thing stopping me is, l had a count up yesterday. Current WIPs are 2 pullovers, 1 cardigan, 2 pairs of socks and a scarf. Oops. 😊

Yarn is a gateway drug. *nods wisely* It leads to many other fiber crafts.

​@@nikiTricoteuse absolutely relatable.

I also love Beau Miles.

That's a great idea, you could easily part line the top too with a light stretchy fabric if it needs a little more coverage

Excellent!

Jolly good idea👏

@@gretatillett1100 Thank you!❤️🤗🐝

That happens to all of us 😂

Thank you so much!

This particular frame doesn't turn upside down easily, but that's definitely a valid tactic on frames that can be reversed

Watch again. Having seen what is done after makes complete sense. I wondered what it was all about at the beginning too, but follow carefully and it will make sense. Lots of luck it's, worth the effort and Sally explains it so well ❤

Beads is a great idea!

This warp was roughly 80cm long

@@SallyPointer thank you! I just saw that in the video when I re-watched it 🤦‍♀️ Does sprang need to be worked with a non-stretchy fibre, like cotton, as opposed to something like wool, which has a bit of give to it? Or rather, is it easier with a non-stretch fibre for a beginner to manage tension?

@@CaptainStitchyPants for a bag, non stretchy is easiest, but you can use almost anything. Most of the hats and hairnets known archaeologically are wool.

@@SallyPointer thank you so much! I found your channel about a year ago and love the way you break things down for beginners, very reassuring without being patronising, it's a definite skill 👍

Sprang is better for things like hairnets, bags, sashes and garments than for things like fishing nets, but it is pretty versatile!

I noticed it right after uploading! I did say in the description there was a typo. Too many plates spinning at the moment.

Absolutely, try hanging the top handle on the hook on the back of a door and tying a food can to the bottom one to weight it.

The wriggling and washing sorted that out and evened everything out.

It's a bit dependant on how tightly you work, but allow 10-30% extra. Most projects are more flexible though, a bag is still a bag if it comes out an inch shorter or longer than you expected

Ok i watched a. Other vid but i wonder if u can use synthetic yarn or is cotton best what about cord?

I did show it, it's the set up stage where you wind straight onto the handles

The chaining part at the bottom can use a hook, and you could use one to help manipulate the last few rows

It's always a bit sad when that happens. Call it practice and hopefully the next one will be in a stronger yarn.

@@SallyPointer next one is not for this re-enactment season. I just bought a lovely naldbinded bag.

If you get a standard 50g ball of each shade you'll have more than enough.

Whatever size handles you like, and two 50g balls of yarn will be more than enough

Thanks. What size did you use please?

Could well be the camera, but you're probably just too pedantic. A teal hue can be either blue or green depending on opinion, in English as well as in other languages. Japanese tends to call most light blue hues green. In Finnish this colour is usually called 'blue-green' or 'sea green' (yes, 'merenvihreä' or sea green, not sea blue) while 'blue' tends to be reserved for deep indigo colours. Same idea of blue meaning a kind of ultramarine or midnight blue is also seen in for example Italian and Russian which both have a separate word for lighter, greener blues). But you could argue that kingfisher blue and lagoon blue / turquoise are the same colour as this teal blue/green. Colour understanding is a socially varying concept just as anything else we've named. Maybe in some other areas it has a more blue association, but for me this would be a blueish green colour and not a real blue.

It's more green than blue, but teal is probably a fair description too

Brilliant! Love the perspective.

Just put in in the sink, add a little soap, rinse it out. Nothing complicated

You can do one very like the shaping in my hairnet video, just using this stitch pattern rather than the plain interlinking, or sew the resulting net to a band if you want it to look more like the Haraldskær one.

It's not my main area of research, but if opportunity allows I'll do something on shelters and housing, there's some fascinating sites with really interesting discoveries

I'd love to see that

My warp was about 80cm long, but you can do this with one handle hung over the hook on a door and the other end weighted, so you don't actually need a frame

That's great, sprang does remain a living tradition in some parts of the world, but is almost forgotten in others. Where was she from, and did she do other things with sprang? Do you remember what her sprang frame looked like?

@@SallyPointer She was American born in Hungary. I don't remember what her frame looked like. We had a lot of bags because people had to bring their own to carry purchases. And keep toys and onions in. I don't remember her making anything but bags. And when Grandma was 'spranging' we knew not to sit in her chair. From a remove of 60 years that's all I can say. Your video really cheered me up. Have you ever tatted?

Let me know how it turns out when you try it!

Set up a piece of sprang as you would for something like a hairnet, then at the end, you can thread a drawstring through for handles, or sew them to a band, or pick up the loops and use a different craft such as crochet to work the handles. Lots of options!

They’re great for fixing pulls in knit fabric, you can usually find them in notions sections at fabric stores.

Yes indeed, there's a kit version on my website shop