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Right oblique. — Same as dextral. Applied to the textile elements 

 that lean to the right looking upward. Seen in twills, hexagonal, 

 octagonal, and rhomb weaves. 



Rim. — As distinguished from the added border, the rim of a basket 

 is the upper edge of the special technic which constitutes the body. 

 The ways in which the body elements are cut off, turned down and 

 plicated, wrapped and fastened off give names to rims, their nature 

 resulting from the work on the body — checker, twill, twine, etc. 



Fig. 18 (Cat. No. 221521, U.S.N-.M.) gives an idea of the way in 

 which the long ends of oblique stems in hexagonal work are turned 

 back and inwoven to give variety to the texture. 



Rotan sega. — The toughest of all rattans for basketwork — borders, 

 carrying parts, sewing, strengthening, supporting. Planted exten- 

 sively by Dyaks. 



Sago palm. — Midribs are stripped and bolted together for shields 

 in Mas. (Cat. No. 237214.) 



Pig. ."'.:;. — Active elements in sets. 



Sand paper. — Applied to various species of plants whose leaves 

 have a siliceous surface and are used in polishing. 



Sarong. — In Malaysia, a piece of woven stuff enveloping the body. 

 Worn by both sexes. 



Seizing. — The process or result of lashing the parts of basketwork 

 together by turns of flexible material. To the sailor terms " round 

 seizing," " throat seizing," and " racking seizing " the Abbott baskets 

 add many other puzzling ways of joining the textile parts. 



Sennit. — A convenient name to retain for flat braidwork, which 

 may be used apart or worked into other technic. (See Braidwork.) 



Serapang. — Trident fish spear. West Borneo. There are four sorts 

 of '" anyi " (weaving or braiding) on each serapang properly made 

 and three kinds of rattan. 



Sets. — The cycloidal curling of a single element is very common 

 in Malaysia ; but this element may be two, three, or more stems, 

 splits, etc., that lie parallel in the work. They should be spoken of 

 as single, double, triple, quadruple. In knotwork double or triple 



