Sally Pointer
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.
Marrakech: Traditional Crafts and Trades
Making a Stone Age Style Needle Case
Loop-and-Twist: an Ancient Form of Nalbinding
Exploring the Making of a Bronze Age Piled Hat
A Slashed Knit Hat for a Landsknecht
Making Simple Bark Baskets (short video)
Making a Stone-age Style Wooden Comb
Making an Iron Age Outfit Inspired by Huldremose Woman
Nettle Fibre Experiment: Cold Woodash Lye
Stone Age education handling collection order (Short video)
Making Kimmeridge Shale Beads
Soapmaking from Scratch part two: Soft-soap and Bar Soap
Making Soap Washballs, 16th-18th century style at the Weald and Downland Museum
Making Cordage from Red Deer Sinew
Palaeolithic Rope-making Experiment
Making a Neolithic Netting Shuttle from Antler, and using it with Nettle Cordage.
Making a Rectangular Net
Making a Neolithic Thorn Flax Hackle
Making Neolithic Bone Textile Tools
Nettles for Textiles Challenge 2023
Making a Neolithic Textile Tool From Thorns!
Overwintered Alder Cone Dye
Wild Swim Joined by Cows
Make a Sprang Bag with Handles: all over holes/ Haraldskaer pattern
Soapmaking from Scratch: Woodash Lye
Four Strand Braids, flat and round versions
Making 4-ply Cordage: Laid Cord vs Cabled Cord
Making 3-Ply Cordage
Making Acorn Coffee
Making Acorn Flour Pasta