This section is from the book "Cassell's Cyclopaedia Of Mechanics", by Paul N. Hasluck. Also available from Amazon: Cassell's Cyclopaedia Of Mechanics.
Purse rabbit nets are square worked on a 2-in. mesh, using ten or twelve rows of the same number of stitches. Flax sewing twine, bought in skeins, is suitable. The draw line can be rove through all meshes round the net, and attached to a brass ring for pegging over the rabbit's hole, or a ring may be hitched to each corner and the line rove through the rings only, in which case the line is pegged over the hole and not a ring.
 
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