Nets are mended the way frames are repaired at this desk: one knot at a time, with the rest of the mesh held exactly as it is. A mender who reworks a whole panel to fix one torn knot comes back with a different net. An editor briefed with three changes at once comes back with a different woman.
The rule is written on the bench. One fault, named in one sentence. What must not change — her face, the pose, the light — named in the same brief. Then the repair is judged against the castnet card like any new frame, because a repair that drifts her is not a repair at all; it is a quiet replacement, and replacements are culled, not kept.
The order of work follows from it. Stills are proven against the card. Repairs mend the proven stills, one knot per pass, at the editor’s 21 credits. Swaps carry the mended face. Upscalers finish only what every earlier pass has approved. Skipping a pass does not save its cost; it moves the cost, with interest, to the pass where the tear is finally noticed.
Mend small, judge everything, keep the mesh hers. The net on the wall is the reminder: it has been repaired a hundred times and is still, knot for knot, the same net.