Net Making

Going back at least 200 years, Menesses says his family passed down the art of net-making. ❋ Unknown (2010)

NOGUCHI: Trey Menesses says the oil has made him unsure of the future of net-making. ❋ Unknown (2010)

NOGUCHI: Now he's torn about whether his 18-year-old son, Erwin III, also known as Trey, should take up net-making. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Now he's using his net-making skills to make pompoms, like the kind cheerleaders use, which help detect incoming oil. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'm leaving for Montana in 15 minutes and still have to pack, so only have time to add that I'm pretty sure Louis Vuitton has set up a bed net-making factory in Darfur. ❋ Fresca (2009)

After this last stint of spiral netting, I'm not so sure whether it was used as an approach for net-making in the middle ages. ❋ A Stitch In Time (2009)

During a presentation on Native American net-making technology, one young person contributed details because her grandfather makes them in the same fashion in Puerto Rico. ❋ Unknown (2004)

When not otherwise occupied, my mother also worked at the art of net-making. ❋ Various (N/A)

In Samoa, net-making is the same now as it was of old. ❋ George Turner (N/A)

A good priest had tried to induce his people to share this rich harvest by starting a fishery school for boys at Baltimore, where net-making and every other branch of the industry was taught. ❋ Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1902)

Not only did he carry on the manufacture of lace, but the various branches of business connected with it -- yarn-doubling, silk-spinning, net-making, and finishing. ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

Luckily for us, the Dean -- who, I need hardly say, was a very clever boy in every sense -- had learned from one of the sailors the art of net-making; and out of some of the narwhal sinew he contrived, in two days, to construct quite a good-sized net. ❋ Unknown (1856)

It introduces false assumptions into our understanding of how we address poverty, if it leads us to assume that alleviating poverty and suffering is largely about net-making, or about implementing or defunding policies that operate somewhere "out there" in society. ❋ Matthew L. Skinner (2012)

Tommy's father, William Burbank Sr., continued the family net-making business at Fernandina Beach, which Tommy and two brothers, Billy and Johnny Burbank, worked in as well.