The playwork book . Fig. or cut into the required shapes, and 90 THE PLAYWORK BOOK the different sizes of bones used for cups ortea pot can be decorated with little pat-terns in gilt paint or water-colors. A RUSH OR RAFFIA BAG Materials Required:— Green rushes or raffia» fine stringy, a small piece ofcardboard^ a tape needle. This is a little bag made of raffia orrushes, woven on to a warp of string. Thestring should first of all be wound veryloosely on to cardboard, and if necessaryslits or notches can be cut in it to hold thestring firm. Now take your rush or raffia. Fig. 74. and dar
The playwork book . Fig. or cut into the required shapes, and 90 THE PLAYWORK BOOK the different sizes of bones used for cups ortea pot can be decorated with little pat-terns in gilt paint or water-colors. A RUSH OR RAFFIA BAG Materials Required:— Green rushes or raffia» fine stringy, a small piece ofcardboard^ a tape needle. This is a little bag made of raffia orrushes, woven on to a warp of string. Thestring should first of all be wound veryloosely on to cardboard, and if necessaryslits or notches can be cut in it to hold thestring firm. Now take your rush or raffia. Fig. 74. and darn up one side of the card and downthe other and back again, leaving one long THE HARVEST PLAIT 91 side of the card free. You can weave onethread up and one down, or one thread upand two down as you please. When theweaving- is finished draw out the cardboardand decorate your bag with Httle tassels,and add plaited handles. THE HARVEST PLAIT Materials Required:—? Two long steins of straw^s, or stalks of oats, barleyor wheat, with ears left on, a little thread. This is made by Scottish children towear in their hats at harvest time. Taketwo long firm straws with the ears on them
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