which have needle guides thereon for directing stitch yarns to the latch needles 3 as shown the guide bars 13 are mounted on the side of the plane 2 of the latch needles 3 opposite the lapping belts 5 i e on the upstream side suitable means are also provided for oscillating the guide bars 13 at an angle to the pattern yarns as shown in fig1 the lapping belts 5 are positioned at an acute angle downstream of the plane 2 a yarn guide 14 is also disposed between the belts 5 and the guide bars 13 for deflecting the pattern yarns upon laying in of the stitch yarns this yarn guide 14 is used for laying the pattern yarns in the needle lanes not shown the yarn guide 14 may be coupled to the guide bars 13 so as to move therewith or may be provided with an independent drive not shown the netting of the present invention is knitted on such a machine wherein a plurality of mono filament chain yarns are orientated in a first direction and a plurality of fill yarns are orientated in a second direction alternatively the chain yarns as well as the fill yarns may comprise mono filaments various mono filaments may be utilized within the durable net of the present invention unlimiting examples of such mono filaments include bicomponent striated coated abrasion resistant and high tenacity mono filaments u s pat nos 3 949 043 4 285 898.