Due to some very recent discovery of facts, recovered from the cords and nets among the artifacts recovered from the Zueberbueler shelter's years of work, we have redone our display.

We will offer you two displays: The many forms of nets, are selected from some 75 plus samples salvaged. A display of tools and some of the facts on how nets were made, many millennium past, and the craft today.

The nets are more bags than the modern day fishing nets. Some may have seen use in water, these will be black and very brittle. Their use will remain a mystery.

At first it was expected that the task of making a net was one of knots and more knots. But it is clear that many are made using no knots. Yep, no knots.

Some will share knots in part of the net and be knotless the remainder. This knotless area seems to be the base of these bags. Possibly allowing for the ease of closure. Knot bags are frequently made smaller by the common sewing trick of dropping a stitch, or letting one square replace two.

Our tools show the gage of today, commercially made for the fishing trade, a hand made gage made for the Pecos museum, and the form believed to be gages used at the site. As nets were common so were the gages. At the shelter the deer antler was popular. But so was bone and wood.

So, to our display of nets...

Or the tools, if you like....

Or, return to the weaving display?.....