Annals of the South African MuseumAnnale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . hes in the last row may be filled with a short stitch, which gives theimpression of an edging (89b). Sometimes, however, the stitch remains the samebut the material (92) or the thickness of the coil (90, 91, Fig. 68A, B) ischanged. The coil may also be reinforced and the material of the sewing strandchanged (93, Fig. 68C). Change of stitch A simple and fairly common edging is plain oversewing, closely worked andoften used when another stitch or more widely spaced oversewing has been usedfor the body (94a). In the latter

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Annals of the South African MuseumAnnale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . hes in the last row may be filled with a short stitch, which gives theimpression of an edging (89b). Sometimes, however, the stitch remains the samebut the material (92) or the thickness of the coil (90, 91, Fig. 68A, B) ischanged. The coil may also be reinforced and the material of the sewing strandchanged (93, Fig. 68C). Change of stitch A simple and fairly common edging is plain oversewing, closely worked andoften used when another stitch or more widely spaced oversewing has been usedfor the body (94a). In the latter case, the edge oversewing strand may sew intothe space between the stitches only, and the last coil may be alternativelypierced and encircled one (94b, Fig. 68D, E) or more times, the latter in themanner of openwork sewing. Nauhaus (1881) described Nguni coiled work edge as being like finebuttonhole-stitch. The plain buttonhole or blanket stitch does not now seem tooccur on coiled work, but a fancy variety is used on Himba baskets in the Kaoko-veld (95a, 95b, Fig. 69).. B

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