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ward to repeat the process. Drawing h is the same over parallel 

 warpg and c is the same process over closely approaching warps. 



Fig. 21 is the overhand knot in single strand, seen in wrapping 

 kite strings on their sticks and the belaying of ropes on vessels. The 

 simple form here shown will be seen in the slings that attach small 

 bowlders to nets as weights. More complicated and ornate examples 

 will be seen on the borders of burden baskets at the tops of the up- 

 rights which are a part of the framework. 



Lacework. — The technic of both point and bobbin lace occurs in 

 Eastern basketry. With a single element there may be two or more 

 splits or stems moving side by side and these may at any moment 

 become braidwork. The single-element type is found in cycloid 

 work. 



b 



Fig. 29. — Single lacing in Engano basketwork. 



Lacing. — Coiled basketwork on the island of Engano imitates the 

 technic often seen in the lining of hats throughout Malaysia. It is 

 here called lacing, and may be single, as with one end of a shoe string, 

 or double, as with both ends. In both cases the active part passes by 

 a iigure-of-S movement. Fig. 29, <i, h. <■, ,1 (Cat. Nos. -j.'iTO?.* and 

 •_':'»71 ()•".. U.S.N.M.), show the single lacing. Drawing a gives the va- 

 riety in which the zigzag movements of the active splits in adjoining- 

 rows are parallel; drawing l> is the same finished : drawing c adds the 

 wrapped border. In drawing '/ another variety of technic appears — ■ 

 the active split passes through the angles of the lacing below, the 

 lacings from row to row interlocking at right angle-. 



Fig. 30, a, 6, c, d (Cat. Nos. 237084, 2371 L2, and 237081, U.S.X.M.), 

 shows the double lacing. Drawing a gives the process, b is close 

 double lacing, c is openwork with wrapped border, and <l a closer 

 example of the same. All of them give hexagonal effects in the 

 meshes, the active parts going through the angles underneath. 



