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Title: How to make Indian and other baskets
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: James, George Wharton, 1858-1923
Subjects: Indian baskets Basket making
Publisher: New York : H. Malkan

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-ening to the importance of basketry has brought rattan into markedprominence. It is a palm of the genus Calamus, majnly found in theEast Indies. Sometimes it attains the astounding length of 500 feet,climbing the tallest trees, falling in festoons, and again ascending, andseldom exceeding an inch in thickness. The rattan of China andJapan is of the genus Raphis, and is known as ground-rattan. Itgrows erect in dense tufts. Prepared for commerce rattan is stripped of its leaves and bark,and is put up into bundles of round cane or flat strips, numbered fromi to 15. No. i, being the finest, is the most expensive. Nos. 2, 3, and4 are common sizes, Nos. 5 and 6 being used for the coarser work. The BAMBOO holds an important place in the list of basket-making materials. It grows in all warm countries, though the Bam-busa, the chief type, is found only in Southern and Eastern Asia. Itis an arborescent grass, growing to the height of 20, 50 and even 120 22 HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS.
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HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. 23 feet, with a diameter, in the larger speeies, of from 4 to 8 inches. Bothleaves and stems are used in basketry work, though rattan is morecommon in America for general purposes. The PALAI family affords much material for basketry, as hasalready been shown, one species alone, the Bamboo-palm, Raffia vini-fera, giving the raffia now so largely used. The leaves of the palmetto (Sabal palmetto), a tree growing from20 to 35 feet high, and of the dwarf palmetto (S. adansoni), are peeledand make excellent material for wrapping splints, and also for splintsfor the mat weave work herein described. Good splints are made from the BUCK-EYE (Aesculus), severalkinds of which are well adapted to this purpose, the wood being white,soft, spongy and easily worked. The wood splints of commerce are purchased in long, wide strips.To prepare these for basket work two cutting implements are used,elsewhere pictured. The broad strip is placed inside the grooves of thes

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