How to make baskets . ogether, as it goes underand over them. A cover may be made just largeenough to fit over the basket and finished in thesame way. On such a basket, woven of pale greenraffia, bands of raffia in the natural color areeffective, or designs may be embroidered on it ex-ternally as already described. The coiled baskets of the Apaches, Pai Utes,Navajo and Pimas are made of coiled osiers, orbundles of yucca whipped or wound with splitosier or splints of pine. We can follow the stitchif not the rigidity and strength of these basketsby using single coils of No. 5 round rattan, orbun
How to make baskets . ogether, as it goes underand over them. A cover may be made just largeenough to fit over the basket and finished in thesame way. On such a basket, woven of pale greenraffia, bands of raffia in the natural color areeffective, or designs may be embroidered on it ex-ternally as already described. The coiled baskets of the Apaches, Pai Utes,Navajo and Pimas are made of coiled osiers, orbundles of yucca whipped or wound with splitosier or splints of pine. We can follow the stitchif not the rigidity and strength of these basketsby using single coils of No. 5 round rattan, orbundles made up of three or more strands of No. 2rattan, coiled and wound with raffia. The rattanshould be wet until pliable. It is then coiled intothe smallest possible ring, and sewed over and overwith a strand of raffia in a No. 19 tapestry with the second coil, each time the raffiais wound around it is brought through the stitchjust below it (see Fig. 43). Ornamental bands are 176 HOW TO MAKE BASKETS. FIG. 43 sometimes added by laying a colored weaver alongand catching it down with every third stitch (see Fig. 44). Anothercoiling stitch is madeby bringing the weaverover the coil which hasjust been laid alongand down under thecoil below, lockinginto the stitch be-neath that lower coil(see Fig. 45). Aborder which is often seen on coiled baskets, andwhich looks like braiding on a whip, is quite simpleto make, much more sothan one would single weaver, pref-erably of splint, ispassed under thesewing of the lastcoil, then drawn overit and backward. Itis next brought underagain, upward and for-ward, just in front of the point where it started. In this way, by sew-ing first backward and then forward, as one
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