Making a Rectangular Net

Filmed at the Middelaldercentret in Denmark in August 2023, we look at how to set up the starting rows for a rectangular net.
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[@wodentoad1]

This is not in either of my netmaking books! Thanks for this as always!

[@aeorling]

It's always astonishing to see just how much work goes into things that we sort of take for granted these days. Thanks for sharing!

[@sonipitts]

Medieval fisherwife: Works all week making a fishing net. Goth 90s teen: Oooo...wall decor!

[@jakes9708]

Used to have to repair nets when I was a teen and worked for my uncle, but I've never built one from scratch. Maybe I should make a small one, just for the nerd of it.

[@Just_Sara]

Nerding is always a good idea

[@lauramcmahon602]

Just for the nerd of it is my new catchphrase ❤❤❤

[@mojow9841]

Thank you. It took me back to watching fishermen mending their nets, as a child in Fisherow, East Lothian. Some technology never really changes because it just does what it is supposed to.

[@sw33n3yto00]

I have read and watched dozens of net making instructions, but it never clicked until this one. Thank you, Ma'am.

[@AnnaShuk]

Thank you so much! Awesome video 💛

[@kai-lynn6441]

My first crafting experience fixing my grandfathers net in Hawaii. Brings back wonderful memories.

[@witchways]

I love seeing the skills that we developed over the years. Thank you for making this content.

[@sylkebambilke1364]

dear Sally, I tried it after your advice have now 2 rows you do it, it looks so easy - how I do it is very cryptic… I will try more, more training, hopefully it gets better 😂 how you do it is great

[@wormthatturned8737]

I just found a medieval fishing net weight while digging up a load of dock roots in the garden!

[@gardeningwiththeharpers9068]

Not just water this is still used today by many as a long net for rabbits and small game 😊

[@WhisperWolfe]

I love your videos. I'm a fantasy writer, and when it comes to making textiles and nets, hammocks, and anything else by hand, it's really important to me that I get it right. Your videos are some of my favorite. Every video I find myself wondering about the first person who figured out how to create a net or sewing patterns, and what it must have been like to have people looking at you like you're a little cooky only to be blown away by the net they made.

[@emmabroughton2039]

I have memories of my Dad and Uncle making nets for my Grandad. Or more often, repairing nets.

[@amandajstar]

Sally, your video is a revelation. The photography is also lovely, as befits the photographer : )

[@blackout4988]

True, It's amazing

[@deborahdaviesdd-artist1059]

Your videos are just brilliant. They not only educate me, but make me really happy. Thank you. X

[@AnnabelSmyth]

Thank you for a really investing video, as usual. My father used to say that a net was a lot of holes tied up with string! He was not wrong! I imagine the same principle is used for wite netting.

[@MichaelBerthelsen]

You're in Denmark!😱 I just left two days ago...🤦😂

[@njordmannen]

Very very nice Sally. This is sadly a lost art to modern fisher-men & women.

[@Beryllahawk]

That is fascinating! I'll be looking at the net bag next I do think - it hadn't occurred me to research nets, but it SHOULD have - (oh, context: writing a piece of fantasy fiction, and my protagonist is from a sea-faring culture. Nets WOULD be vital to life for such a culture!! Just never even thought about it!)

[@su.mioiyu-5008]

Thank you. Had wondered about how for some time so its good to see it being worked on

[@iulianmuresanu]

i grew up watchin my grandfather make these nets. willow bakets too. the were usd in every day life but now, 15 years later, I doubt anyone makes them anymore

[@amariahg5450]

There are some lovely willow basket makers in the UK and USA! The craft is making a comeback in the art and homesteading communities.

[@renatamcstay]

Simple skillful and amazing thank you so much for sharing!

[@lesdrinkwater490]

Great work Sally. Thanks for sharing.

[@AnnaKublik-Biedermann]

❤ Nyko ❤

[@AnimeShinigami13]

listened to this while I worked on my finger weaving. My shawl I'm making needed a bit more length, so I had to buy another roll of twine (total of three) and dye it. Then measure two wingspans each and middle them between two of the rapidly becoming too short strands. got to review my techniques so that I can conceal where the strands run out of space.

[@supernova4760]

Wow that looks great. 😊 a good way to have fun and make something useful.

[@margueritemitchell1829]

🇨🇦🖐👍❤hello from British Columbia Canada Thinking about making a bag..

[@SallyPointer]

Go for it! They are so useful

[@suzanneguernier5352]

Me also! From B.C. and thinking about a bag!

[@carlavlund5841]

So very happy to see that you've been to Denmark again! And thanks for the inspiration for future projects!

[@tineditmarunnerup9513]

We very much enjoy having her 💜

[@rachelmolina3995]

Thank you for a great video! I always wondered about how they made nets. I'll have to try making a bag.

[@leopardontheprowl]

Hi Sally! I love watching what you do, I used to work with you at National Museum Wales, I was your weekend cover girl, many years ago! Bethan

[@SallyPointer]

Great to hear from you!

[@ZhovtoBlakytniy]

I'm going to make one for my car trunk now. Great video 😊

[@BarefootViking]

Great to see. Thank you for sharing this

[@Hippiechick11]

Ot always is amazing to watch you do something like this and think, how did people figure out how to do that? Thanks for the video, the net is beautiful.

[@d4r4butler74]

Thank you for this. Nets are always useful.

[@madladpjl]

Sally congratulations on graduating

[@bethliebman8169]

Love your videos. This one was no exception!

[@annh.8290]

Lovely, thank you.

[@Just_Sara]

How you remember how to do so many things, Sally, I've no idea.

[@SallyPointer]

Drying is important, and nets are good in things like hemp, linen, nettle. Most of us today aren't using a net in water daily so we have more leeway in choice of fibre.

[@Deipnosophist_the_Gastronomer]

@@SallyPointer A nettle net, yes! 👍

[@najroe]

if you make a bight to the left and looping over your thumb and push needle through both that and mesh at same time you save time by doing the knot in one pass

[@SallyPointer]

That's a good way of doing it. I've tried teaching both ways and more people seem to get it quickly if it's split into two motions, but your way is a very good one too.

[@najroe]

@@SallyPointer it should be, my grandfather was a Fisherman and I helped him mend nets from very young age, there where lot of old people around me with great knowledge of cordage and how to make and use it when I grew up. those men had lot of knowledge and enjoyed passing it on. one old sailor was past 100 when he passed mid 1980s, he was sent to sea as apprentice to be a officer (captain and owner was a friend) on a schooner by his father, his first trip was from malmö to Göteborg, then from Göteborg to Perth Australia and back, after over 60 years at sea his seamanship was almost instinct.

[@oliverg6864]

Wow that's so cool! I can't imagine how long it took you to make that big net!

[@NeurodivergentHomestead120]

I've been binging your videos, absolutely loving them! (Hair net is coming along nicely, thank you.) The only thing I'd ask is if you could please put the volume up just a bit? I've tried using captioning but KZbin's captioning is a bit nutty and not especially accurate a lot of the time.

[@SallyPointer]

It's as high as I can get at my end

[@wendymoyer782]

If I watch KZbin on my laptop, I can kind of get two volumes...one front YT.,and one for my laptop. If I max both out, it helps with the more quiet-spoken videos. Just... don't forget to turn those volumes back down!😳🤣🙉

[@NeurodivergentHomestead120]

@@wendymoyer782 yeah, I'm up there on both. Maybe headphones...

[@NeurodivergentHomestead120]

@@SallyPointer thanks. I am across the pond and halfway across the next continent... maybe you really need to shout!😂

[@ko6el]

Yes volume needs to be higher for sure

[@susanmercer5120]

Amazing, this is fascinating to watched. A shawl in my closet has come apart and this netting appears to be the way it was made. Can this be repaired when a single line of knots come undone? Have I missed a video that teaches repairing the net?

[@SallyPointer]

To have a line of knots come undone is unusual, is is a very slidey, slippery yarn? Mending is just a case of attaching a new thread and knotting into the base or top of the required 'holes' until the damaged section is repaired.

[@laurawilliams7782]

Really neat! I remember seeing on an episode of Time Team a two pronged stick used for netmaking. I assume that's a similar technique, using the space between the prongs to set gauge.

[@nixtarma]

I think those sticks are actually a type of shuttle, with yarn wrapped around between the ends.

[@alliemackenzie1575]

Thank you so much for your explanations! You’re passing along so many skills that are a hair’s breadth from being lost completely. Can you imagine if we lost net making, or twine making?

[@lizard5678]

May I suggest releasing videos under creative commons license or at least doing a patreon with downloadable and archivable video licenses.

[@jillatherton4660]

😄👍

[@anthonybracuti6898]

sally, you've not posted in a while, hope everything is going ok

[@SallyPointer]

Just completely swamped in work, got lots of new content planned

[@c.c.1366]

The net gauge looks like a tongue depressor.

[@SallyPointer]

Any slip of wood will do, lolly sticks and tongue depressors are good starter tools if you haven't got anything else available.

[@tineditmarunnerup9513]

Is this the small house behind the smithy? Also: Who's filming you? Jorge?

[@SallyPointer]

The intro is in the boathouse, the netting close up is tied to the corner of the smithy and filmed by Keshlan.

[@phillydragonfly]

I remember hearing a theory that nålebinding may have evolved from net making.

[@SallyPointer]

Hmm, there are some older texts that call nalbinding 'knotless netting' but they do seem to appear at much the same time as related, but different ways if tying holes together with string.

[@jakobozias7613]

Would the same process be done for a finer net with smaller holes? Also, you look just like someone in a show I just watched on the death of Christopher Marlow.

[@SallyPointer]

Guilty as charged, I played the innkeeper in that 😂. And yes, smaller gauge stick makes smaller holes

[@jakobozias7613]

@@SallyPointer Awesome! Are you in any other history shows?

[@Travis-dg3wv]

⭐ *promosm*