The realization of fishing nets required a very special process and collaboration by several workers.
The “hemp men” (canapini) were used to comb the hemp with specific tools: they freed the textile fibers from impurities making them parallel.
“Funai” were men who used the “fezzule” (or hemp skein) and “lenguette” (that is the tool with which the net was woven), and other tools to form the string. The rope was formed from the interlacing of the strings. At the end of the path there was a wheel usually turned by children of school age.
Women made fishing nets.
It is about handicrafts that changed over time and then disappeared. Hemp nets were replaced by plastic ones.
At the Museum of “Civiltà Marinara delle Marche” (“Seafaring Culture Museum of Marche Region”) there are some objects and images which testify to these important jobs.