Weights and Anchors
The Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, ce. 5500 BC to 2750 BC, created ceramic weights in various shapes and sizes which were used as loom weights when weaving, and also were attached to fishing nets.
Despite their ornamental value, dog conches are traditionally used by local fishermen as sinkers for their fishing nets.
Read more about this topic: Fishing Net
Famous quotes containing the words weights and/or anchors:
“What do you believe in?—In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“The primary function of myth is to validate an existing social order. Myth enshrines conservative social values, raising tradition on a pedestal. It expresses and confirms, rather than explains or questions, the sources of cultural attitudes and values.... Because myth anchors the present in the past it is a sociological charter for a future society which is an exact replica of the present one.”
—Ann Oakley (b. 1944)