FISHING NETS MAKING

"The thieves came, took the hosts, and left the house through the windows."
 A riddle

   No one knows from which antiquity rolled up to us the wheel. Nobody knows how many years, centuries, and millennia ago, from which time comes to us a common thread. But the time between the invention of the line and the mesh was very short. The mesh and the canvas appeared simultaneously, perhaps apart, but it is clear that both owe their existence to the yarn. And initially, the fabric and the fishing net were made of animal hair.
     The brilliant simplicity of the mesh (loop - a knot) always gets people fish. It also gave rise to women's needlework.
 People have been knitting fishing tackles from time immemorial. For the prudent farmer, this occupation and hunting were not a burden or a pure amusement. Fishing in the North has always been an excellent economic help. The aesthetic and emotional in this activity are firmly connected to the practical (economic goal).
   A genuine and close communion with nature nullifies the fear of nothingness, death, disappearance, rivalry with nature, the joy of recognition, risk, physical conditioning, strange self-disclosure and self-determination - all of these and much more have been experienced by hunters and fishermen.
   In anticipation of the test, a person can stoically, all evenings knit fishnets, procure in the deep snow spruce stakes for the vertices, and twist an infinite linen thread. The tool knitter is simple: it is the bifurcated stick like a women's spinning spindle, then the gauge - a plate, the width of which defines the mesh width, and which befits the loop—finally, a flat juniper shuttle with a slot where the thread is put. Everybody was knitting for children and the elderly, young and healthy bearded men!
   Knitting was done in free time, during the bad weather or low season, and at organized gatherings for knitting. However, some self-respecting women avoided such events. They were looking at this occupation with reverence but with slight mocking. And why that attitude existed, we would understand if we take a closer look at textile artistic creations, which complete the entire complex and long path of flax - a satellite of woman's fate. The end is the crown of the process. Creative weaving, braiding, knitting, and embroidery of the linen crowned the cycle, taking the creation by human hands from the annual cycle very often, even beyond the length of human life.