Fishing and Gear Technology

Unit 5 - Construction of netting/webbing

5.3.Shaping of webbing

5.3.2.Creasing
Creasing is the word derived from the word increase. It is altering the shape of a net by increasing the number of meshes in concerned rows at regular intervals. This is normally done by making an additional loop after the completion of the mesh in the same knot. This loop acts as full mesh for the next row. After which normal braiding is followed. The degree of taper required decides the rate of increasing . It is calculated in the following way.

Where
a/b is the increasing baiting ratio
M1 is the more number of meshes on the webbing
M2 is the less more number of meshes on the webbing
D1 is the number of meshes in the depth of the webbing.