needle

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/59783

needle loops were made. The working instruments were a needle and a card. The needle was flat, eight inches long, conical at the top, and the bottom concave for about an inch; the inside of the upper third was also hollow, saving a small needle shaped piece, running up in the center to within half an inch of the top. The card was a simple flat piece of wood, as wide as the meshes were to be long, and long enough to overlap the last mesh by about half an inch. Each needle, and there were several for each person, was wound full of twine, the turns running around the inner point of the needle, and over the concave end. In netting, the needle was thrust through the loop above, the twine brought over the card, to which it was tightly drawn, and a knot made by drawing the needle between the threads and through a loop in its own thread, and the whole drawn tightly -- "but," as the mate had said, after showing the boys how it was done, "now do it yourself, boys! Do it yourselves! 'tis the best way to find out. And netting is very pretty, easy work when you once know how." DNE-cit Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Not used