Old cotton net in a wooden box worn down by the sea. Black and white photo.
Old cotton net in a wooden box worn down by the sea. Black and white photo.

Cotton Nets

starting at €90.00

A memory from a time when ships were made of wood, people were made of iron, and fishing nets of cotton thread. Cork or wood was used as floats in the upper part of the net, and the lower part was weighted with for example stones wrapped in birch bark and, a little later, metal rings. It was important to repair and dry valuable nets to keep them in working condition. I remember how the wind tingled the rings of drying nets on the wall of the fish shed in a very homely way.

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A memory from a time when ships were made of wood, people were made of iron, and fishing nets of cotton thread. Cork or wood was used as floats in the upper part of the net, and the lower part was weighted with for example stones wrapped in birch bark and, a little later, metal rings. It was important to repair and dry valuable nets to keep them in working condition. I remember how the wind tingled the rings of drying nets on the wall of the fish shed in a very homely way.

NOSTALGIA – Memories of the past

Even in the dim light of the waterfront shed, you can see the practical beauty of the handle, worn smooth by decades of use. The spirit of the curly pine tree lives on in the tool – the tree from which it was crafted. In all the boxes and barrels, fishing net hooks, ice augers, corfs, decoy ducks, shovels and scrapers... The new cannot replace the old. It lacks the stories, spirits, and elves.