This section is from the book "The Corner Cupboard; Or, Facts For Everybody", by Robert Kemp Philp. Also available from Amazon: The Corner Cupboard; or Facts for Everybody.
Net-Making. A useful art, by which fibrous materials are knotted in a regular manner, and continued over a large surface. The formation and commencement of the meshes and the shape of the wooden needle used in the process, is plainly represented in the engraving.

 
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