DOWN EAST NETTING-A History and How-To of Netmaking by Barbara MORTON (SKU: FLB003) * ONLY 6 LEFT *

ISBN 0-9728496-0-2
144 pages
New - Second edition


INSTRUCTION BOOK - RARE
Learn how to do netting from Vinalhaven, a little island in Maine, USA

- All kinds of nets - with projects
- The basic knot for fishnet and other useful knots
- Square and Reverse Netting
- Repairing a knotted net
- Fishermen's Nets
- Horse net Projects
- Home projects in Knotted Net Laces
- Fancy Knotted Netting
- Filet Guipure Stitches from a 19th century periodical
- 29 practical projects, 40 photographs, 82 illustrations, BIG pictures, 144 pages.

Look at the many pictures for the List of Content and for samples of pages.
Also a page with part of the history of Vinalhaven Island (Maine) in the US.
Click here to see where is Vinalheaven (Maine, US) 

     The author, Barbara Morton has gathered the patterns and photographs for Down East Netting to preserve the netting skills that have been rapidly disappearing even from Maine's coastal towns.
     She writes... "an order of netted bags hanging on a hook in a Maine kitchen, the wintry light reflecting the soft sheen in their netted design, assumes as much beauty as any other handicraft. And yet, even though netting is one of the earliest crafts known to mankind, and certainly an important part of the coastal settlements here in America, it is rarely included in craft shows or thought of as folk art".
     Barbara Morton has documented the craft and art of netting in a book full of easy to follow illustrations and directions. She will enable you to effectively transfer the skills of old to create practical and artful projects such as fashion accessories, lace, bags of all kinds, nets and many other useful and beautiful product.