Annals of the South African MuseumAnnale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . Fig. 65. A. Sewing strands carried down slack to next row, 85e. B. Weft half-hitched, carrieddown to next row and half hitched again, 85f. C. One strand of weft wound round last warpto next starting place, one strand carried straight down, 85k. D. Weft taken straight back diagonally, with extra twist, 85n. 132 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. Fig. 66. Sieve, open twine; wefts taken back diagonally in three places, straight in two; warp of twigs, wefts of thick sinew; two lattices wrapped; edges reinforced. San (Bushma
Annals of the South African MuseumAnnale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . Fig. 65. A. Sewing strands carried down slack to next row, 85e. B. Weft half-hitched, carrieddown to next row and half hitched again, 85f. C. One strand of weft wound round last warpto next starting place, one strand carried straight down, 85k. D. Weft taken straight back diagonally, with extra twist, 85n. 132 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM. Fig. 66. Sieve, open twine; wefts taken back diagonally in three places, straight in two; warp of twigs, wefts of thick sinew; two lattices wrapped; edges reinforced. San (Bushman), Gordonia, Cape, 1911 (SAM-1552). Length 615 mm. their tracks for a few warps, which may be doubled, before being wound down awarp to the next row (85q). The same method is put to decorative use on aMpukushu sleeping-mat of sedge stems sewn together, where the ends of thesewing strands, when they emerge at the edge of the work, are twined back for10-15 cm, in irregular lengths, making a fancy border at each end of the mat,before continuing across the work. Wefts wrapped In close twined food-mats there are a few characteristic side edges, the basisof which is for one of the weft strands to be wrapped once or more often aroundthe last warp, while the other turns back without going round the last warp, butpassing over the other weft in a variety of ways to form a decorative edging(86a-86j, Figs 67, 52). Edge o
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