i66o The Cornell Reading Courses 



Methods of making baskets: (i) coiled; (2) woven. 

 Shapes and designs of baskets. 



Colors, natural juices and pigments, used for dyeing baskets. 

 Materials used, such as palm leaf, cedar bark, twigs of elm, osier, and wil- 

 low, rattan, reeds, hard woods, splints, yucca fiber. 

 Mud-lined and mud-coated baskets, the forerunners of pottery. 



PROGRAM 5 

 PRIMITIVE WOMAN AS WEAVER 



Roll call. — Members should respond by giving rapidly names of dif- 

 ferent fabrics used by modern civilized women. 



Paper. — Primitive woman's supply of materials and colors for cloth. 



Forum. — Members should show (for five minutes) bits of cloth woven 

 in their own families between 1750 and 1850. 



Paper. — • Description of the essential parts of all looms and the essential 

 processes for weaving of any kind or any time. Simple illustrations, 

 such as are found in Woolman and McGowan's Textiles, should be drawn 

 on the blackboard to illustrate this topic. 



STUDY TOPICS FOR PROGRAM 5 



Need of clothing for warmth, ornament, or protection. ' 

 Sources of the present knowledge of primitive weaving. 

 Patterns and designs found now on prehistoric pottery. 

 Grave wrappings, for example, in Egypt and Peru. 

 Heirlooms among primitive people. 



Survivals of ways of weaving among Navajos and Filipinos. 

 Material : 



1. Qualities and quantities provided by nature. 



2. Differences and difficulties in use. 



3. Cotton and flax, rabbits' hair, palm leaf fiber, stripped bird and rab- 



bit skin, goats' hair, cedar bark. 

 Spimiing: forms and uses of spindles; skill required; position of spinners. 

 Weaving; forms and uses of looms. 



1. Parts of looms: frame, treadle, shutter, batten. 



2. Processes: shedding, picking, battening. 

 Colors of fabrics : 



1. Natural colors. 



2 . Use of vegetable and mineral dyes. 



3. Use of applied pigments. 



Fashions and patterns of clothes made of woven materials. 



PROGRAM 6 

 PRIMITIVE WOMAN AS SKIN DRESSER 

 Roll ca//.— Each member should respond by naming an article made 

 nowadays of leather or fiir. 



