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The pattern then proceeds into a geometric zigzag design of dark- 

 brown and Hght-brown wefts. There is no "eccentric" wefting in 

 this section as is common in the Chilkat blankets; all of the wefts are 

 at right angles to the warps. In all of this zigzag section, the weaving 

 is accomplished with one light twining element and one dark. The 

 pattern is therefore reversible; when the light appears on one surface, 

 the dark forms the identical pattern on the reverse. Of necessity, 

 in this zigzag design, therefore, the twining proceeds on a twill-line 

 over paired warps (see fig, 25, a). Between each rectangle of the 

 bold zigzag design are four vertical bands, one-half of an inch Avide, 

 alternating light and dark wefts. In the fragments preserved, there 

 is not one of the complete rectangles of the zigzag design; their width 

 is uncertain. The maximum of width of the zigzag block of any 

 fragment, which is therefore a minimum for the design, is 5% inches. 

 The warp length of the design band, which is complete in several 

 fragments, is 2^ inches. 



Unlike the Chilkat blanket weaving in which short pieces of weft 

 yarns were inserted in the design pattern and locked with the adjoining 

 wefts, all of the wefts in this textile proceed from selvage to selvage 

 and were woven directly across the entire width, forming the zigzag 

 designs and the vertical bars as these design elements appear in turn. 



Warp count throughout the blanket is 14 to the inch, used primarily 

 in pairs. The Chilkat blankets often had warps added to aid in 

 shaping the blanket to a curved shape. There was no evidence of 

 added warps in the fragments of the Knight Island blanket. 



The weft count in these top fragments is 32 single wefts used in 

 pairs (i.e., 16 weft courses or rows) an inch. 



At the base of this bold pattern is a single row of dark three-strand 

 twine, followed by four rows of the twilled-twining of the light- 

 colored wool; another single row of dark twining, three-strand; and 

 two-rows of light twilled-twining. At the very bottom of one of the 

 fragments, follo^ving the above series of twined rows, is a row of 

 twining showing two light wefts and contiguous to these two dark 

 wefts. These may well indicate that there were originally two 

 complete rows of the horizontal bands of zigzags and bars. No more 

 than this hint was present. 



The fragments of what appear to be the main body of the blanket 

 are more numerous than the top border pieces. Completely cleaned 

 and in good enough condition to be teased apart for thorough analysis 

 were four large fragments, the largest of which is 10}^ by 9% inches. 

 It is exceedingly unfortunate that none of this series could be fitted 

 to the preceding pattern section. This portion of the blanket is 

 primarily light wefted with designs of concentric rectangles of a 

 deep reddish brown (pi. 19, b). The basic weave is twilled-twining 



