ABSTRACT
Artifacts from ancient times that can tell a story about the fiber use and techniques are less preserved than, say, pieces of pottery, coins, or jewelry. Still, scholars have been able to find fragments and put, at least partially, the story together. Textile scholar from Greece, Lila de Chaves, has concluded that interlacing with loops was used by the people of the Neolithic Age before the discovery of the spindle wheel, or spinning wheel, as far back as 5000 years BC. Those pieces are referred to as “knotless netting” or “naalebinding.”1
