| "What is it for?" is asked so often that one realizes | | | | soft silk cut in narrow strips is most decorative. It is of |
| utility is the first requisite of a basket. Strong and | | | | practical value, too, in keeping polished mahogany |
| well-made and adapted to its place in the household it | | | | furniture free from dust. This quiver-shaped basket |
| must be, and it should be beautiful and harmonious as | | | | makes an appropriate case for it. Six spokes of No. 2 |
| well. | | | | rattan thirty-six 1 inches long are crossed in the centre |
| String Basket of Orange and Black Rattan | | | | and bound twice with a weaver of No. 00 before the |
| Materials: | | | | under-and-over weaving is begun. |
| 16 24-inch pieces of No. 2 orange rattan, | | | | A centre one inch in diameter is woven and then the |
| 9 or 10 weavers of No. 2 orange rattan, | | | | spokes are wet and turned up with straight sides for |
| 3 weavers of No. 2 black rattan. | | | | two inches and a quarter. A dark-blue bead is slipped |
| Sixteen twenty-four-inch pieces of No. 2 orange rattan | | | | on to every other spoke, and the weaver having been |
| are arranged in the centre, shown in Figure 1. The | | | | pushed up through one of these beads, the end of |
| four-row beginning is woven, and when the centre is | | | | another weaver is run down beside the next spoke on |
| four inches in diameter the sides are rounded up, flaring | | | | the right and two rows of pairing are woven. The |
| them outward decidedly for an inch and three-quarters. | | | | spokes are then brought straight up without weaving |
| An inch more is woven, drawing the spokes in | | | | for two inches and a half. Here a weaver doubled |
| gradually more and more and the spokes are bent in | | | | around a spoke is woven in two rows of pairing. Again |
| toward the centre. Two weavers of black rattan and | | | | the spokes are brought up straight without weaving |
| one of the orange are then woven in four rows of | | | | for four and three-quarters inches, when a piece of |
| triple twist, drawing them tightly. The ends of these | | | | weaver is doubled around a spoke and one row of |
| weavers are cut about half an inch beyond the point | | | | pairing is woven. On every other spoke an iridescent |
| on the circumference of the basket where the triple | | | | bead is threaded and the weavers are brought up |
| twist was started, and after wetting them until pliable | | | | through two successive beads to be woven in two |
| each is run down between the weaving beside a | | | | more rows of pairing. |
| spoke. | | | | Again the spokes are brought up without weaving for |
| The border is made as follows: In the first row each | | | | an inch and seven-eighths, when seven-eighths of an |
| pair of spokes is brought over the next two pairs, | | | | inch of pairing is woven and the following border made: |
| under the next pair and outside. The ends are drawn | | | | In the first row each spoke is brought back of the |
| tightly, making the border open. In the second row | | | | spoke on the right and outside. In the second row each |
| each pair of ends is brought over the next pair of | | | | end is brought around back of the next spoke and |
| spokes and inside, where they are cut so as to allow | | | | outside, down by the weaving. As it is brought through |
| each to lie against the pair of spokes in front. | | | | in this way it lies close to another end, which it should |
| Duster Case | | | | precede, so that the next end to take will always be |
| Materials: | | | | the back one of the pair thus formed. A ring to hang it |
| 6 36-inch pieces of No. 2 rattan, | | | | by is made by passing a piece of No. 00 rattan, about |
| 2 or 3 weavers of No. 00 rattan, | | | | eighteen inches long, back of two spokes between the |
| 6 large dark-blue beads, | | | | last two rows of weaving and tying it into a ring. The |
| 6 large iridescent beads, | | | | ends are twisted in and out around the foundation ring |
| A Japanese duster with silk top. | | | | twice, making three circuits, which complete it. |
| A Japanese duster with bamboo handle and top of | | | | |