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the ancient art of weaving holes on purpose and calling them useful.
means The craft of knotting cord, twine, or thread into a meshed network of fibers, used for fishing, carrying, trapping, or covering.
from A plain compound of "net" and "make." "Net" comes from Old English "net" or "nett," with cousins across the Germanic family — Dutch "net," German "Netz" — all tracing back to a Proto-Germanic root "natjan," possibly tied to an older notion of knotting or binding. The thing itself is far older than its English name: knotted nets predate written language, and the word simply attaches the everyday verb "make" to one of humanity's oldest fabrications of deliberate emptiness.
- core technique
- every net is knots holding emptiness in formation
- old craft
- Stone Age fishers tied nets 30,000 years ago
- key knot
- the sheet bend secures most fishing meshes
- word root
- net shares ancestry with knot and node
- surgical kin
- surgeons borrowed netting for hernia repair mesh
cornish pilchard nets — traditional seine nets used in cornwall, england for catching pilchards since the 16th century
gillnets in bhola island — fishing nets set by communities in bangladesh's bhola island, catching 40% of the region's fish