. Practical and artistic basketry. Fig. 76.—Showing the Whip Stitch. The illustration, Fig. 76, will show the stitchsufficiently. Care must be taken to bring the thread up atthe right and close to the stitch on the preced-ing coil. When made on a soft coil, the ends canbe sewed into the coil, but if made on rattan, theends must be fastened on the back by weavingback and forth on the stitches so that the rightside will present a continuous thread. XVIII. A Porno Stitch. One of the finest weaves is made by carryingalong a strand of raffia on top of the rattan, forthe purpose of holding the stitc
. Practical and artistic basketry. Fig. 76.—Showing the Whip Stitch. The illustration, Fig. 76, will show the stitchsufficiently. Care must be taken to bring the thread up atthe right and close to the stitch on the preced-ing coil. When made on a soft coil, the ends canbe sewed into the coil, but if made on rattan, theends must be fastened on the back by weavingback and forth on the stitches so that the rightside will present a continuous thread. XVIII. A Porno Stitch. One of the finest weaves is made by carryingalong a strand of raffia on top of the rattan, forthe purpose of holding the stitches in the suc-ceeding rows. This is an especially good stitchfor plaques. The fineness of the basket willdepend upon the size of the thread Fig. 77- Begin the center as previously described inFig. 46. Place the strand of raffia that iscarried along with the rattan down to theshaved point, and wind it in with the rattan,care being taken to keep it on the top of thecoil. io6 Practical Basketry. After sewing the center, bring the thread upfrom the back over the uncovered rattan, andpass the needle down between the rattan andthe strand of raffia in the preceding coil. The stitches must be very near together in
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