How to make baskets (1911) (14597114208)

Identifier: howtomakebaskets00whit (find matches)
Title: How to make baskets
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: White, Mary, 1869- Doubleday, Nelli Blanchan De Graff, Mrs., 1865-1918
Subjects: Basket making
Publisher: Doubleday, Page and co.
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho



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rattan,\)/2 weavers of No. 2 rattan,A knitting needle. The bottom is woven in the same way as thelarge mat, to a diameter of one and three-eighthsinches; when the spokes are wet and rounded upover the finger. The sides are woven with looselydrawn weavers until three have been used. Thefourth weaver is drawn tighter so that the basketshall be somewhat the shape of an orange with thetop cut off. The edge is bound and finished withthis border. The spokes are soaked until pliable,and each is brought back of the next one on theright and then out. This goes on around the bas-ket. The end of each spoke in turn is then broughtover the first spoke on the right, and pressed downinside the basket just behind the second spoke onthe right and next to the weaving. The cover is woven like the bottom, except thatfrom the very centre the spokes are bent graduallyup. One full-length weaver should make a largeenough cover. It is then bound off and finishedwith a Rope Border. Each spoke in succession is
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g 0 COVERS 39 brought across the next spoke to the right and theninside the cover. When the circuit of the coverhas been made, each end of a spoke is broughtacross the next spoke to the right and then presseddown inside the cover where, after the border isfinished, they are cut just long enough to allow eachend to lie across the next spoke. Fastenings. Three rings of No. 2 rattan aremade as follows. A piece of rattan about a footlong, which has beensoaked until pliable, istied into a ring. Theends are then twistedin and out oncearound the foundationring (see Fig. 12), orwhen a heavier ringis required, twice orthree times. One ofthe rings should besmaller than the other two, and none of them needbe over three-quarters of an inch in diameter. Thesmallest one is attached to the cover in front,across a spoke and between the border and the lastrow of weaving, each end being sewed off under aspoke, then over one and inside the cover, where itis cut off. Another ring is attached in the same