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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
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e rim strengthened with other splints and bound with anarrow splint. The lid, however, is made quite differently. For this the spokesmust be very narrow in the center and broaden towards the edges.They are then woven with twined sweet grass until the lid is thesize of the basket, or a trifle larger. The spokes are now turneddown, and the twining continued until the flange of the cover is asdeep as required. The spokes are then turned in, the edge strength-ened by a suitable splint and bound as before. The handle is fas-tened to a loop which is held secure by being taken under the sweetgrass of the under side of the lid in several places. The method of making the handkerchief basket in Fig. 6 will bedescribed in a later Bulletin of the Basket Fraternity. Fig. 7 shows the bases and lids of the baskets of Fig. 6, and a studyof them will make the foregoing instructions much more clear. The carrying basket of Fig. 144 is of mat weave and web weave, 100 HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS.
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FIG. 146. SPLINT AND PLAITED SWEET GRASS B ASKETS.Courtesy Hyde Exploring Expedition, New York. HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. IOI using plaited sweet grass, plain splints, and the curl weave to giveornamentation. Take four splints about 23 inches long, and 3-8 of aninch wide. Cross these in simple mat weave with twelve similarsplints, 18 inches long. Turn these up for ends and sides. First holdtogether with one row of simple splint weave. Then taketwo plaits of thickly plaited sweet grass and proceed toweb weave. Now we take three weavers an inch wide anda long plait of extra thick plaited grass. Make two rowsof ordinary web weave with two of these wide splints. Loopthe plait and bind to the side by twisting or curling the third woodsplint around the plait, under a foundation splint, over the plait, underthe upper part of the next foundation splint, and so on alternating thewrapping of the curled splint around the foundation splints exposedby the upper and lower of the two bro

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