. How to make Indian and other baskets . ding the last three throughthem. The plait will not be necessary. Length of spokes neededfor border—6 inches. CLOSED BORDER NO. 2.—See that all the spokes are thesame length, and proceed as follows: Lay spoke No. i behind spokeNo. 2, leaving enough room under it for the insertion of an ordi-nary slate pencil, in order to have space when necessary for thread-ing through the ends of the last spokes at the finishing of the bor-der. Lay spoke No. 2 behind No. 3 (Fig. 116). Pick up No. i, placeit before No. 3 and behind No. 4. Take No. 3 (which is still up-
. How to make Indian and other baskets . ding the last three throughthem. The plait will not be necessary. Length of spokes neededfor border—6 inches. CLOSED BORDER NO. 2.—See that all the spokes are thesame length, and proceed as follows: Lay spoke No. i behind spokeNo. 2, leaving enough room under it for the insertion of an ordi-nary slate pencil, in order to have space when necessary for thread-ing through the ends of the last spokes at the finishing of the bor-der. Lay spoke No. 2 behind No. 3 (Fig. 116). Pick up No. i, placeit before No. 3 and behind No. 4. Take No. 3 (which is still up- HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. 8l right) bringing it down beside No. I and behind No. 4 (Fig. 117),making one pair of ends turned down. The canes forming thesepairs must each in turn be kept side by side (the longer of the twobeing to the right) and held perfectly flat under the thumb till the nextpair is down. Pick up No. 2, bring it before No. 4 and behindNo. 5. Take No. 4 (which is still upright), and bring it beside No. 2. FIG. 119. DETAILOF CLOSED BORDER NO. 2. FIG. 120. DETAIL OF CLOSEDBORDER NO. 3. and behind No. 5. This will make a second pair of ends. Thelongest of the first pair must now be brought before No. 5 (which isstill upright) and behind No. 6 (Fig. 118), No. 5 being brought downbeside it as before. The shortest of each pair in turn is left to becut off at the front when the work is finished, or to be threadedthrough to the inside and cut off there, making the edge still moresubstantial. Proceed on this principle till all the upright spokes butone have been brought down, and if correctly worked, there will
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