Hand made netting gauges and needles.
Hand made netting needles.
Real Men Don’t Knit!! They Knot!!
Many knots are very useful and the specific way they can be used is gained by their application.
Many old-time net makers refer to the net making process using the term to “knit” a net!! .
Most knitting is a series of loops. Netting uses a knot. This “knitting” is done with a gauge and a needle to form a uniformly knotted pattern!
Repetition of the sheet bend produces a series of shapes that have been employed to harvest much from land, air and sea.
Used archaically and in the present, patterns tailored to the target quarry to tangle, ensnare and harvest from the abundance all around us.
Talon making a Rabbit Net
Netting Gauge and Needle (the needle is sometimes referred to as a shuttle).
Hoop nets, dip nets, cast nets, drag nets, landing nets, Gill nets, Butterfly nets…
Nets pressed into service in the environments to gather sustenance.
Mmmmmm Delicious Butterflies!!! 🙂
Large Salmon nets are used to harvest the Salmon on their annual run.
Nets are placed under ice to gather fish in the dead of winter!
The Paiutes used netting stretched over the land to tangle Rabbits driven into them.
Similarly, Waterfowl were captured with the use of nets as well.
This technique was also used in Jungles to harvest animals for food!
Used Archaically by many groups and tribes the world over and are still being used today in this same manner in more remote areas of the world.
A very fine netting is used to acquire small bait fish for bigger fish.
In the ocean large drag nets are used to harvest many fish. Your breaded fish stick was scooped up from the sea.
Completed Carrying Net
Nets have been used to carry loads of bulky items on your back with the aid of a tumpline.
Completed Rabbit Purse Net
Below my roasted duck we find a net of the knot-less kind!!!
“A bag made by the knotless netting method.”
Many splendor-ed role netting plays!!
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