A Net

Collected by Ernst Vatter from the Ata Kiwan (mountain people) of the Solor-Alor archipelago, East Indonesia. Vatter failed to collect the native name for this figure. In Japan, where the same method is used, the figure is called "Seven-Meshed Net".

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Step 5 - Navajo the loops on 1 (pass 1 down through its own loops, allowing the lower double loop to slip off).

Insert 2, from above, into the double triangle near 1.