Making a Rectangular Net

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10 ай бұрын

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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@aeorling 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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

@wodentoad1 26 күн бұрын

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

@jakes9708 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

Nerding is always a good idea

@lauramcmahon602 10 ай бұрын

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

@AnnaShuk Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Awesome video 💛

@sw33n3yto00 10 ай бұрын

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

@mojow9841 10 ай бұрын

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.

@kai-lynn6441 10 ай бұрын

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

@witchways 10 ай бұрын

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

@wormthatturned8737 10 ай бұрын

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

@gardeningwiththeharpers9068 5 ай бұрын

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

@emmabroughton2039 10 ай бұрын

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

@WhisperWolfe 10 ай бұрын

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.

@deborahdaviesdd-artist1059 9 ай бұрын

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

@su.mioiyu-5008 10 ай бұрын

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

@amandajstar 10 ай бұрын

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

@blackout4988 5 ай бұрын

True, It's amazing

@sylkebambilke1364 3 ай бұрын

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

@Beryllahawk 10 ай бұрын

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!)

@iulianmuresanu 10 ай бұрын

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 4 ай бұрын

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

@lesdrinkwater490 10 ай бұрын

Great work Sally. Thanks for sharing.

@renatamcstay 10 ай бұрын

Simple skillful and amazing thank you so much for sharing!

@AnnabelSmyth 10 ай бұрын

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.

@supernova4760 4 ай бұрын

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

@margueritemitchell1829 10 ай бұрын

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

@SallyPointer 10 ай бұрын

Go for it! They are so useful

@suzanneguernier5352 10 ай бұрын

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

@MichaelBerthelsen 10 ай бұрын

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

@ZhovtoBlakytniy 10 ай бұрын

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

@rachelmolina3995 10 ай бұрын

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

@AnimeShinigami13 10 ай бұрын

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.

@njordmannen 10 ай бұрын

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

@d4r4butler74 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for this. Nets are always useful.

@BarefootViking 5 ай бұрын

Great to see. Thank you for sharing this

@annh.8290 10 ай бұрын

Lovely, thank you.

@carlavlund5841 10 ай бұрын

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

@tineditmarunnerup9513 10 ай бұрын

We very much enjoy having her 💜

@bethliebman8169 10 ай бұрын

Love your videos. This one was no exception!

@Hippiechick11 10 ай бұрын

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.

@madladpjl 6 ай бұрын

Sally congratulations on graduating

@leopardontheprowl 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

Great to hear from you!

@Just_Sara 10 ай бұрын

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

@SallyPointer 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

@@SallyPointer A nettle net, yes! 👍

@najroe 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

@@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.

@AnnaKublik-Biedermann 7 ай бұрын

❤ Nyko ❤

@NeurodivergentHomestead120 10 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq's captioning is a bit nutty and not especially accurate a lot of the time.

@SallyPointer 10 ай бұрын

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

@wendymoyer782 10 ай бұрын

If I watch KZfaq 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 10 ай бұрын

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

@NeurodivergentHomestead120 10 ай бұрын

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

@ko6el 10 ай бұрын

Yes volume needs to be higher for sure

@laurawilliams7782 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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

@oliverg6864 10 ай бұрын

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

@susanmercer5120 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

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.

@alliemackenzie1575 10 ай бұрын

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?

@jillatherton4660 10 ай бұрын

😄👍

@c.c.1366 7 ай бұрын

The net gauge looks like a tongue depressor.

@SallyPointer 7 ай бұрын

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

@lizard5678 7 ай бұрын

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

@pampelmouse 9 күн бұрын

Im not familiar with either but this looks a lot similar to tatting

@SallyPointer 9 күн бұрын

Not quite, this type of netting uses a sheetbend knot that won't slide, unlike tatting where you want the half hitches to slide along the support thread

@anthonybracuti6898 7 ай бұрын

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

@SallyPointer 7 ай бұрын

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

@Travis-dg3wv 9 ай бұрын

⭐ *promosm*

@tineditmarunnerup9513 10 ай бұрын

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

@SallyPointer 10 ай бұрын

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

@phillydragonfly 10 ай бұрын

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

@SallyPointer 10 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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 8 ай бұрын

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

@jakobozias7613 8 ай бұрын

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