User:Ssstephen/Reading/Network Etymology

A work taking the form of a net. A network is a work.

Not anie damzell, which her vaunteth most
In skilfull knitting of soft silken twyne;
Nor anie skil'd in workmanship embost;
Nor anie skil'd in loupes of fingring fine,
Might in their diuers cunning euer dare,
With this so curious networke to compare.

from Muiopotmos, or The Fate of the Butterflie, by Edmund Spenser

opus reticulatum

Brickwork pattern.