NET-MAKING. 



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this is immaterial, but once around the mesh- 

 stick insures an even start. Through this take 

 a stitch, as indicated in Figs. 3, 4, and 5. 



1. Hold the twine as shown in Fig. 3, with 

 the thumb upon it at A, where it crosses the 

 stick ; 2, pass the needle up through the loop 

 and draw the loop downward till its bight 

 touches the corner of the stick (Fig. 4) ; 3, 

 throw a turn of twine (C, Fig. 4) over the 



When the desired number has been com- 

 pleted, the third row is made by working back 

 on the second row. That is to say, the first 

 stitch of the third row is made through the 

 last mesh of the second row, and so on, back 

 and forth, adding the successive rows until the 



FIG. 4. 



wrist and stick ; 4, pass the needle up through 

 space marked x; and, 5, draw it tight as in 

 Fig. 5, ending with a firm pull in the direction 

 of the dotted line, taking especial care that the 

 twine, as it closes about the two parts of the 

 loop, shall not slip over its bight. 

 The first mesh is now made. Through it 



net has been made as long as required. In a 

 small net, say seven meshes wide, the meshes 

 by this process will be made in order as num- 

 bered, the first two rows being made together 

 in a string as described. 



This makes a net with its meshes in diago- 

 nal rows as seen in seines and fishing-nets 

 generally, and in netted hammocks. Nets, 

 whose meshes are at right angles with the 

 sides, as in tennis-nets, are made with the same 

 stitch, but the work is started differently. A 

 corner mesh is first made; and in order to 

 make it four stitches must be taken as follow : 



FIG. 5. 



make another in the same way, and through 

 this another, until a long string of them is 

 made. If the net is to be sixty meshes wide, 

 120 meshes must be made after this fashion. 

 When spread out on a table, with the possibly 



FIG. 7. 



Make a large loop, which can be attached 



uneven meshes at the beginning removed, this to some convenient point (A, Fig. 7). In 



series will look like Fig. 6, forming in fact the the bight of this make two half meshes, the 



first two rows of the net that is to be. knots when finished lying one on top of the 

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