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"What is it for?" is asked so often that one realizes utility is the first requisite of a basket. Strong and well-made and adapted to its place in the household it must be, and it should be beautiful and harmonious as well.
String Basket of Orange and Black Rattan
Sixteen twenty-four-inch pieces of No. 2 orange rattan are arranged in the centre, shown in Figure 1. The four-row beginning is woven, and when the centre is four inches in diameter the sides are rounded up, flaring them outward decidedly for an inch and three-quarters. An inch more is woven, drawing the spokes in gradually more and more and the spokes are bent in toward the centre. Two weavers of black rattan and one of the orange are then woven in four rows of triple twist, drawing them tightly. The ends of these weavers are cut about half an inch beyond the point on the circumference of the basket where the triple twist was started, and after wetting them until pliable each is run down between the weaving beside a spoke. The border is made as follows: In the first row each pair of spokes is brought over the next two pairs, under the next pair and outside. The ends are drawn tightly, making the border open. In the second row each pair of ends is brought over the next pair of spokes and inside, where they are cut so as to allow each to lie against the pair of spokes in front. Duster Case
A Japanese duster with bamboo handle and top of soft silk cut in narrow strips is most decorative. It is of practical value, too, in keeping polished mahogany furniture free from dust. This quiver-shaped basket makes an appropriate case for it. Six spokes of No. 2 rattan thirty-six 1 inches long are crossed in the centre and bound twice with a weaver of No. 00 before the under-and-over weaving is begun. A centre one inch in diameter is woven and then the spokes are wet and turned up with straight sides for two inches and a quarter. A dark-blue bead is slipped on to every other spoke, and the weaver having been pushed up through one of these beads, the end of another weaver is run down beside the next spoke on the right and two rows of pairing are woven. The spokes are then brought straight up without weaving for two inches and a half. Here a weaver doubled around a spoke is woven in two rows of pairing. Again the spokes are brought up straight without weaving for four and three-quarters inches, when a piece of weaver is doubled around a spoke and one row of pairing is woven. On every other spoke an iridescent bead is threaded and the weavers are brought up through two successive beads to be woven in two more rows of pairing. Again the spokes are brought up without weaving for an inch and seven-eighths, when seven-eighths of an inch of pairing is woven and the following border made: In the first row each spoke is brought back of the spoke on the right and outside. In the second row each end is brought around back of the next spoke and outside, down by the weaving. As it is brought through in this way it lies close to another end, which it should precede, so that the next end to take will always be the back one of the pair thus formed. A ring to hang it by is made by passing a piece of No. 00 rattan, about eighteen inches long, back of two spokes between the last two rows of weaving and tying it into a ring. The ends are twisted in and out around the foundation ring twice, making three circuits, which complete it.
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