. How to make Indian and other baskets . FIG. 56. BASKETS OF PLAITED of Students, Teachers College, New York. towards the bottom. Then slip the knots from the stick, and pro-ceed to close up the bag by knotting the loose sides together. At the bottom the whole of the strands are gathered together andtied with a single or braided strand. The ends are then cut evenly, alength of plaited raffia put through the upper mesh and tied, and thebag is complete. A pretty effect is caused by loosely braiding the strands of two bot-tom rows of meshes before knotting them. HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND
. How to make Indian and other baskets . FIG. 56. BASKETS OF PLAITED of Students, Teachers College, New York. towards the bottom. Then slip the knots from the stick, and pro-ceed to close up the bag by knotting the loose sides together. At the bottom the whole of the strands are gathered together andtied with a single or braided strand. The ends are then cut evenly, alength of plaited raffia put through the upper mesh and tied, and thebag is complete. A pretty effect is caused by loosely braiding the strands of two bot-tom rows of meshes before knotting them. HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. 55 Another style of bag is made by keeping the meshes of equal sizeall the way to the bottom, then joining the two sides, at the bottom,by matching t)he knots and meshes together and then knitting twostrands from the front and two from the back together for the finishingrow. The ends can then be cut and thie bag is FIG. 57. BASKETS OP PLAITED of Students, Teachers College, New York. If tassels are desired they may be made of raffia and sewed the bag is lined with silk or turkey red cotton it is a pretty andserviceable article. A twine bag may be made in the same manner as A, Fig. 61, ex-cept that the meshes must be much smaller, and the number of strands 50 HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. limited to the size of the ball of twine. With a tassel on the bottom,and tied tightly on the top, the twine allowed to come through one ofthe meshes, it can be suspended wherever needed. In netting with raffia or other materials! an infinite variety ofarticles may be made, and all different, as suggested in B, C and D,
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