How to make baskets . begun like the bottom ofthe basket, except that it is flared up and out fromthe very centre. Two weavers are used, andtoward the end of the second the spokes are flareduntil they lie in a horizontal position. When thediameter is five and a quarter inches the edge isbound off and finished with the Rope Borderdescribed on page 39. Hinge, Top Handle and Fastening*—A weaverof No. 2 rattan is cut into fourths, these are thenseparated into pairs, which are doubled at thecentre and knotted according to the directions onpage 61. This knot is drawn up until it is abouttwo inches a
How to make baskets . begun like the bottom ofthe basket, except that it is flared up and out fromthe very centre. Two weavers are used, andtoward the end of the second the spokes are flareduntil they lie in a horizontal position. When thediameter is five and a quarter inches the edge isbound off and finished with the Rope Borderdescribed on page 39. Hinge, Top Handle and Fastening*—A weaverof No. 2 rattan is cut into fourths, these are thenseparated into pairs, which are doubled at thecentre and knotted according to the directions onpage 61. This knot is drawn up until it is abouttwo inches across. It is then placed in the centreof the cover with the ends extending over thefront and back of the basket. The pairs of endswhich are toward the back of the basket arecrossed, the left being the upper one, and they arepressed down through the cover, one on either sideof a spoke, and between the last row of weavingand the border. Each pair is now brought througha loop in the centre of the border of the basket,. CANDY BASKETSIn the foreground is the brown rush and rattan covered baskel ; directly above It asmaller basket with elaborate hinge, top handle and fastening ia placed. At the lefiis an attractive Indian shape ornamented \\ith a pale-green band. The ihallowbasket on the right makes a charming favor for a dinnei or cotillon CANDY BASKETS 93 and after crossing again (the right over the left),they are fastened off, one on either side of a spokeat about half an inch from the bottom. The hingeand top handle are then completed. To make thecover fastening, the pairs of ends toward the frontare crossed (the right over the left), and broughtdown between the first and second rows of weavingfrom the edge, one on either side of a are crossed again at about an inch and a halfbelow the edge of the cover (the left over theright) to make the beginning of a loop. The endon the right is now brought up, back of the rightside of the loop and through it, while the end onthe
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