Annals of the South African MuseumAnnale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . Fig. 43. Winnowing basket, shaped by cutting and moulding and edge held between twill, warp and weft of wood slivers, hoops wood. Manyika, Mutare (Umtali), Zim-babwe, 1963 (SAM-8968). Greatest diameter, 378 mm. BASKETWORK OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 105 Move to right In a special instance, that of shaping the bulbous top-knot on some SouthSotho hats, the warps are moved one to the right or left, depending on the direc-tion of work, with a twist round the next one to make the ridge stand out beforenarrowing (55, Fig
Annals of the South African MuseumAnnale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . Fig. 43. Winnowing basket, shaped by cutting and moulding and edge held between twill, warp and weft of wood slivers, hoops wood. Manyika, Mutare (Umtali), Zim-babwe, 1963 (SAM-8968). Greatest diameter, 378 mm. BASKETWORK OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 105 Move to right In a special instance, that of shaping the bulbous top-knot on some SouthSotho hats, the warps are moved one to the right or left, depending on the direc-tion of work, with a twist round the next one to make the ridge stand out beforenarrowing (55, Fig. 44).. Fig. 44. Shaping by moving warps to right for ridge of hat, 55. Bend warps Warps may be bent into shape during the weave (56), as in the somewhatspecialized case of woven spoons, where the warps are bent at their centre toform the bowl and then come together to form a central core that is wrapped orplaited to form a handle (58, Fig. 106). Bend fabric A fabric may be bent into shape after the weave, for example, in pouchesand spoon-bags where a cylindrical fabric is pressed flat and held by sewing; orthe shallow straight-sided baskets of the Kalanga in Botswana, where a flatnarrow fabric is bent to form a shallow cylinder, sewn at the overlap of the ends,and the shape held by hoops and a hide base (57, Fig. 45); or the ornamentalknobs on South Sotho hats. Cut fabric A certain amount of shaping is done by cutting the fabric (59, Fig. 43), par-ticularly where a round object is made from a square piece of fabric. This may 106 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM
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