Incredible Art of Net Weaving with Skilled Hands. Posted: January 6, 2025 | Last updated: March 6, 2025. Watch as a young boy’s skilled hands meet an old machine in the art of long net weaving.

"It's a dying art, sewing net," he said. On the sidewalk fronting Magic Island, he stitches together as many as 10 nets a year. But Besas isn't just doing it to make money.

Weaving a Net(work) of Care for Oceanic Collections is on display through Sept. 11 at the East-West Center Gallery on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus at 1601 East-West Road in Honolulu.

Finally, as a proof-of-concept, the group knotted battery strands together into a fishing net and wove a rectangular piece of fabric. The net was then soaked in seawater to absorb the electrolyte and ...