Can anybody hand tie fishing nets?

Jan 05, 2009 by Daniel Pro | Posted in Fishing

I learned to hand tie fishing nets from my mother when I was 10 years old. Is this a totally lost art or does someone know how to make nets by hand.


I live on the mississippi river in Iowa .I have grown up around commercial fishing as long as i can remember .I have hung and tied seines and nets before .I havent done it in quite a few years but I still could .The thing is you can buy the webbing and

dollars2burn4u | Jan 05, 2009

Tying a fishing net

Tor Bendikson gives a demonstration on extending a fishing net.

Textile Arts Resource Guide: Strange but True

by Gwen Magee (Gwendolyn)

"Organic cotton, wool, and bamboo are familiar enough to anyone who's only casually acquainted with eco-friendly fabrics. Ingeo, made from corn, doesn't require a huge leap of the imagination, either. But chicken feathers? Used fishing nets? Milk? Cigarette butts? There are some offbeat sustainable materials shimmying down the runways these days, and we're betting we've only just scratched the surface."

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