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is inserted at the beginning of the border wind- 

 ing, and used in the same manner as illustrated 

 in Fig. 59. 



This method of manipulating rod windings 

 is the simplest one of several for making so- 

 called endless windings. It is capable of nu- 

 merous variations, and it is not only easy to 

 learn, but insures satisfaction. 



The secret of the method is to keep the 

 pull-through of buttonhole silk well waxed, 

 and to discard it for a new one whenever it 

 shows wear. 



In all books on rodmaking more compli- 

 cated forms of winding are described and 

 illustrated. The first step is alike in all of 

 these, but their authors describe the finishing 

 step in other ways. The most common form 

 consists in laying the winding silk along the 

 rod, so that long spirals can be passed over 

 the end of the rod and drawn taut, then the 

 silk is pulled under in the same way as de- 

 scribed by me, save that no separate pull- 

 through is employed. If one is winding near 

 the middle of a long joint, this method is te- 

 dious in the extreme, and the silk not only 

 snarls up, but becomes frayed. There is a 

 way to partially overcome this, which consists 

 in first winding backward in long spirals, pass- 



