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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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26. RAFFIA WRAPPED ARTICLES.Work of Students, Teachers College, New York. raffia to advantage in teaching little children—illustrating the use oftwo materials of different degrees of flexibility. In all the followingexercises it is well to dampen the raffia several hours before using. PICTURE FRAMES.—Cut a 6-inch square from bristol boardand from this cut a circle, the radius being three inches. Cut an inner HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS. 35 circle with radius i 1-4 inches, giving a diameter of 2 1-2 inches. Thisopening allows for a small picture. Then wrap the board with raffiain its native color, or dyed, as preferred. A simple loop may be madeof the raffia with which to hang up the frame. In the making of these picture frames cultivate a senise of propor-tion. The frame must not be too large for the picture it is to hold;nor too small. Then, too, let the child feel that this frame is to enshrine a picturethat means something to him. It is not simply a frame for any kind
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FIG. 28. MAGAZINE HOLDER OF WRAPPED RAFFIA. of a picture, or merely a frame anyhow, but it is a frame especiallymade for a picture of papa or mamma, or the baby, or some belovedfriend or scene. Thus the heart of the child, as well as its mind andfingers are engaged in the work. This is the prime element in allwork we designate artistic. Other interesting possibilities in this use of materials are suggestedin Fig. 26. Here are a book mark, a napkin-ring, and a toy umbrella, allmade of wrapped raffia. For the book-mark any kind of splint may HOW TO MAKE INDIAN AND OTHER BASKETS.

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