. How to make Indian and other baskets . FIG. 144. BASKETS OF SPLINT AND SWEET Hyde Exploring Expedition, New York. HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. 99 right and the one just described is that after a few rows of sweet grassare twined into the sides one wide and two narrow splints are intro-duced. The wide splint is woven, one under, one over, as in allordinary web weaving. But the two small splints—which togetherare about 1-8 of an inch wider than the broad splint on which theyrest—are crossed from bottom to top under every other spoke, form-ing a little nipple or elevatio
. How to make Indian and other baskets . FIG. 144. BASKETS OF SPLINT AND SWEET Hyde Exploring Expedition, New York. HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. 99 right and the one just described is that after a few rows of sweet grassare twined into the sides one wide and two narrow splints are intro-duced. The wide splint is woven, one under, one over, as in allordinary web weaving. But the two small splints—which togetherare about 1-8 of an inch wider than the broad splint on which theyrest—are crossed from bottom to top under every other spoke, form-ing a little nipple or elevation between the spokes. Then moretwined sweet grass completes the sides, which are bound as beforedescribed. The lid is made in like manner. The round basket of Fig. 6 is composed of even splints about half-an-inch wide and laid as shown in Fig. 140. Three or four rows of simple web weave at the outer edge of thebase tighten the spokes. They are then turned up for the sides and. FIG. 145. SPLINT AND PLAITED SWEET GRASS B Hyde Exploring Expedition, New York. sweet grass twined in up to the top. Then the spokes are turnedin, and the rim strengthened with other splints and bound with anarrow splint. The lid, however, is made quite differently. For this the spokesmust be very narrow in the center and broaden towards the are then woven with twined sweet grass until the lid is thesize of the basket, or a trifle larger. The spokes are now turneddown, and the twining continued until the flange of the cover is asdeep as required. The spokes are then turned in, the edge strength-ened by a suitable splint and bound as before. The handle is fas-tened to a loop which is held secure by being taken under the sweetgrass of the under side of the lid in several places. The method of making the handkerchief basket in Fig. 6 will bedescribed in a later Bulletin of the Basket Fraternity. Fig. 7 shows the bases and lids of the baskets of Fig. 6, and a st
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