How to make baskets . Fig. 4.—Pairing that two weavers are used at once. This is aneffective weave on large surfaces, and in bands orpatterns of the same or a contrasting color onplain rattan baskets. Pairing may be used either with an odd or evennumber of spokes. Two weavers are startedbehind two succeeding spokes, and crossed betweenthem, so that what was the under weaver becomesthe upper one each time. In the triple twist, three weavers are placed MATERIALS, TOOLS, PREPARATION J behind three consecutive spokes and brought insuccession, starting with the back one, over twoand under one spoke
How to make baskets . Fig. 4.—Pairing that two weavers are used at once. This is aneffective weave on large surfaces, and in bands orpatterns of the same or a contrasting color onplain rattan baskets. Pairing may be used either with an odd or evennumber of spokes. Two weavers are startedbehind two succeeding spokes, and crossed betweenthem, so that what was the under weaver becomesthe upper one each time. In the triple twist, three weavers are placed MATERIALS, TOOLS, PREPARATION J behind three consecutive spokes and brought insuccession, starting with the back one, over twoand under one spoke, each on its way to the backof the third spoke being laid over the other twoweavers. In turning up the sides of large basketswhere separate spokes or additional spokes have. Fig. 5.—Triple Twist been inserted, or as a strong top for scrap baskets,this weave is invaluable. It entirely hides thespokes it crosses, and therefore is often used tocover places where broken spokes have beenreplaced. Raffia and Some of Its Uses CHAPTER II RAFFIA AND SOME OF ITS USES It is a rare thing to find a material at once sosoft and so strong as raffia; and it could hardly bebetter fitted for the work of childrens fingers if itwas made for the purpose. With a pound or twoof raffia (there is about as much as this in one ofthe hanks that can be bought at seed stores or ofdealers in kindergarten supplies), a paper of tapes-try needles, a pair of scissors, and several flatsticks about a yard long and half an inch wide, youare well equipped. Given in addition to thesesome children fresh from the kindergarten trainingof eye and hand, and you can accomplish , so many charming things can be madefrom one of the great, yellow coils of raffia that itreminds one of the f
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