The nets

The nets

Until a few years ago it was impossible to enter a house on Monte Isola and not find a fishing net.
The making of the nets involved the entire community, because the quantity and quality of the fish caught depended on the net itself. The farmyard, the road, the stable were real laboratories, where the women learned to weave the thread, almost as a game, from an early age.

Indispensable for fishing, Monte Isola’s net has been produced for centuries, first manually in homes, then by hand in the first mechanized workshops (1857) and finally, during the 1900s in real manufacturing companies. Today, in the World Cup, at Roland Garros, in the basketball and volleyball championships and on the ski slopes, the nets of Lake Iseo are used.

Photos by: Fiorello Turla