. How to make Indian and other baskets . FIG. 210. THREE-PLY ANDPLAIN TWINED WORK. FIG. 211. OVERLAID TWINED WEAVING. inside a warp stem. This process is better understood by examiningthe upper parts of Figs. 206 and 207 and 208 and 209. On the surface,when the work is driven home, it is impossible to discriminate betweenthree-ply twine and three-ply braid. The three-ply braid is found atthe starting of all Poma twined baskets, no matter how the rest is builtup. Fig. 210 shows a square inch from the surface of a Hopi twined FIG. 212. FRAPPEDTWINED WORK. The lower part is in plain twined
. How to make Indian and other baskets . FIG. 210. THREE-PLY ANDPLAIN TWINED WORK. FIG. 211. OVERLAID TWINED WEAVING. inside a warp stem. This process is better understood by examiningthe upper parts of Figs. 206 and 207 and 208 and 209. On the surface,when the work is driven home, it is impossible to discriminate betweenthree-ply twine and three-ply braid. The three-ply braid is found atthe starting of all Poma twined baskets, no matter how the rest is builtup. Fig. 210 shows a square inch from the surface of a Hopi twined FIG. 212. FRAPPEDTWINED WORK. The lower part is in plain twined weaving; the upper part is in three-ply twine. (c) THREE-PLY, FALSE In Tlinkit basketrythe body is worked in spruce root, which is exceedingly tough. Theornamentation in which mythological symbols are concealed consists ofa species of false embroidery in which the figures appear on the outside•of the basket but not on the inside. In the needlework of the civilized 132 HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. woman the laying of this third element would be called embroidery,but the Indian woman twines it into the textile while the process ofbasket making is going on; that is, when each of the weft elementspasses between two warp rods outward, the colored or overlaid element
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