Fig. 5.
Fig. 6.
Now comes the important part, the formation of the knot. Hold the mesh stick in your left hand, with the thumb on the twine, and with the needle in the right hand. Now with a quick jerk throw the bight or loop of the twine over the stick and left wrist, as shown in [Fig. 5].
Then push the point of the needle up between the first loop made, and the twine to the left of it, pull the needle through, and bring the knot into shape ([Fig. 6]), then tighten by pulling the needle in the direction of the dotted lines, and the knot is tied.
This simple knot is the foundation of all net-making, and once the reader succeeds in making that, he will very quickly be able to manufacture anything he may require in that branch of work.
Fig. 7.
Now slip out the mesh stick and take the same stitch through the loop you have just made, and so continue on, passing the needle every time through the last loop made until you have made enough. You can generally guess the number of meshes you will require by the size of the mesh stick. By the time you have made as many as you think will be requisite, your work ought to look something like [Fig. 7].
Next unfasten the end from the hook or nail, and untie the first loop made, because it is not the same size as the subsequent ones. Now pass a piece of cord through the upper row of meshes, tie the ends of the cord together, and hang it again over the hook.