Annals of the South African MuseumAnnale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . hole surface or in concentric radial patterns (757/,Fig. 89A; 15lg), or at odd irregular intervals. The concentric patterns are fre-quently seen and widespread, but especially favoured in Botswana. Theirregularly spaced patterns are uncommon and mostly confined to Botswana. by beading—that is the insertion of a strip of coloured material so that it passesover and under one or more stitches of the sewing (152a, 152b, Fig. 89B, C). Ifseveral rows are made, patterns analogous to those of twilled weaving may becreated. Only
Annals of the South African MuseumAnnale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum . hole surface or in concentric radial patterns (757/,Fig. 89A; 15lg), or at odd irregular intervals. The concentric patterns are fre-quently seen and widespread, but especially favoured in Botswana. Theirregularly spaced patterns are uncommon and mostly confined to Botswana. by beading—that is the insertion of a strip of coloured material so that it passesover and under one or more stitches of the sewing (152a, 152b, Fig. 89B, C). Ifseveral rows are made, patterns analogous to those of twilled weaving may becreated. Only isolated instances of this have been found—so far apart as tomake one suspect foreign influence. by the introduction of beads—by threading beads over the sewing strand beforeuse. Only one example was seen, among the Ndau, where the beads were intro-duced on the last coil (153). by wrapping the edges of straight sewn articles (154) or oversewing the final orlast two rows of coiled baskets (755) with material of a different colour. BASKETWORK OF SOUTHERN AFRICA 163.
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