Netting Needle and Net
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It's skill, it's knowledge, it's knowing that you can, and can do it well. Besides, I make nets for my sweet peas 
so it's good practice
so it's good practice 
That's the profound difference between your place and mine.
You had a thousand+ years of medieval times. Royalty, all that stuff.
Your chalcolithic swiftly slid into the bronze age then the iron age.
North America jumped, in a few decades, from Neolithic to the Iron Age with hand writing and printed books. Maybe it's more prevalent in the Pacific Northwest but the Neolithic is all around me in this day and time. Hunting, bulk fishing, arts, crafts and carvings, summer tipi and winter pit houses in the interior and huge cedar plank houses on the coast. All the kinds of poles are still carved, so are the 40' - 60' ocean cedar canoes.
The oral histories which record events of 15,000 years ago (fact) are entrusted to a tribal story teller. Trained from childhood, the kid with the aptitude shouldered to burdens. I met one of them this year. Stunning experience.
You had a thousand+ years of medieval times. Royalty, all that stuff.
Your chalcolithic swiftly slid into the bronze age then the iron age.
North America jumped, in a few decades, from Neolithic to the Iron Age with hand writing and printed books. Maybe it's more prevalent in the Pacific Northwest but the Neolithic is all around me in this day and time. Hunting, bulk fishing, arts, crafts and carvings, summer tipi and winter pit houses in the interior and huge cedar plank houses on the coast. All the kinds of poles are still carved, so are the 40' - 60' ocean cedar canoes.
The oral histories which record events of 15,000 years ago (fact) are entrusted to a tribal story teller. Trained from childhood, the kid with the aptitude shouldered to burdens. I met one of them this year. Stunning experience.
Many families have stories though, but the loudest academic voices repudiate them as hearsay 
Our swift progression was the direct response to invasion. Much like N.A.
The British tribes came together in common response to repeated assaults. Our islands are choice lands it seems.
The Scots and the Picts became kingdoms in response the Roman invasions, and that's pretty much the start of our Iron Age.
The southern British did likewise, and once the Western Roman empire collapsed, they were hit with the Angles invading them. Then the Danes, the Vikings decided to try for a piece too.
It's rather horrible how such generational grief drives innovation. Modern warfare is a classic example.
M
Our swift progression was the direct response to invasion. Much like N.A.
The British tribes came together in common response to repeated assaults. Our islands are choice lands it seems.
The Scots and the Picts became kingdoms in response the Roman invasions, and that's pretty much the start of our Iron Age.
The southern British did likewise, and once the Western Roman empire collapsed, they were hit with the Angles invading them. Then the Danes, the Vikings decided to try for a piece too.
It's rather horrible how such generational grief drives innovation. Modern warfare is a classic example.
M
Back to netting.
A 'neolithic knotless' net, is quickly and simply made, but because there are no knots (the cordage is twisted around itself to create stable meshes) the line can be unwound and re-used.
Since making cordage is in itself a major undertaking in time and resources it makes sense to use such a net when something more permanent isn't required.
For instance, gathering large amounts of greenery, fodder, crop, willow, seaweed, or similar.
M
A 'neolithic knotless' net, is quickly and simply made, but because there are no knots (the cordage is twisted around itself to create stable meshes) the line can be unwound and re-used.
Since making cordage is in itself a major undertaking in time and resources it makes sense to use such a net when something more permanent isn't required.
For instance, gathering large amounts of greenery, fodder, crop, willow, seaweed, or similar.
M
