Traditional Net Making Adu lt Edu cation Centre of Ku u sankoski 2005 2This teaching material has been produced in Adult Education Centre of Kuusankoski as a part of the project "Promoting Intra-European Mobility for Elderly" which is supported by the European Union. The project is coordinated by Athens Network of Collaborating Experts (ANCE), Athens, and the other partners are Kolleg - College for Management and Design of Sustainable Development gGmbH, Berlin, SCIENTER - Centro di Ricerche e Servizi Avanzati per la Formazione, Bologna, Italy and K.A.P.I - Elderly Day Care Center, Athens. The one year long project has been started in the autumn of 2004. More information on the project: www.noagelimit.org. Traditional Net Making in Finland Net Making History A hundred years ago net making was a part of everyday housework in the wintertime. Net was mainly needed for fishing gear, drag seines and drum nets. In the inland net making was mainly women's job, whereas in the coastal area, where fishing had a more important role as a means of living, also men took part in net making. However, making and using nets has been practised much longer. The oldest net in the world was made of willow bark and according to archaeological studies it was nearly 10,000 years old. The net was found on the Karelian Isthmus in the former Finnish municipality of Antrea, which nowadays belongs to Russia. The net had been preserved in the bottom mud and peat of ancient Lake Ancylus until it was found in 1913. The length of the net was estimated to have been 30 meters and the height 1.5 metres. The meshes, i.e. the knot intervals of the net, were 6 centimetres, so it is possible that it had been used for ...
