Fig. 8.
Next go on with the work as before, only do not slip the loop off the stick as at first. Knot through E, [Fig. 8], then through D, then C, and so on, until you have travelled along the whole width.
Then turn the work over and travel back again in the same manner. It is better to make ten or a dozen meshes before slipping the stick out.
Fig. 9.
Presuming that the twine breaks, or you wish to join another ball, the way to do it is with a ‘becket-hitch,’ commonly called a ‘weaver’s knot.’ Form a bight with one part, pass the other part up through the loop, then over, under and back through its own loop ([Fig. 9]).
With regard to making a network hammock, proceed as we have described, and to make a full-sized hammock you would require between fifty and sixty two-inch meshes each way.
Then make the clews, as described in the [article] on canvas hammocks, and fasten them in the usual manner to each end of the hammock, tying the ends as regularly as you can.
Netting is a very pleasant as well as useful occupation, and is more suitable for boys than girls, owing to the strain of pulling the knots tight. The pleasure of being able to make nets for fishing, nets for the garden, to keep the birds off the trees, nets to hang vegetables or fruit in, and lastly, but not least, a net hammock, ought to amply repay any trouble or inconvenience caused by learning.