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them in the addition of extra strands during the course of manu- 
facture, the object of such extras being threefold: To form a ledge 
around the base for stability, to help increase the thickness of the 
lower portions of the walls for strength,and to amplify the area of 
the upper portions of the walls for shape. On occasion yet another 
purpose may be served, i. e., 
when the free extremities of 
the extra strands form a 
horizontal ledge within the 
brim for preventing any of 
the contained articles, usually 
cotton, falling out, except 
when tilted over to an ex- 
treme degree (fig. 161). 
Putting the matter as best I 
can, the manufacture of 
such a basket can perhaps 
Fig. 161.—Section of a single hourglass pattern be detailed as follows: Upon 
compound bowl or basin basket, showing the 3 
inverted brim (a), the thickening (b) of the completion of the founda- 
‘dging, and the supporting ledge (c). (See tion, and the raising of the 
iets HKD 1B) walls to the level of the first 
three or four rows of herringbones (fig. 162), the outer layer of pro- 
jecting strands is “ broken ”—i. e., turned down—and its ends plaited 
into a flat bordering, the remaining free extremities being then cut 
short (fig. 163). Extra, and usually colored, strands are now passed 
Fic. 162.—Compound bowl or basin basket. First stage in the making of the sides. 
from below up (fig. 164), under the first row of herringbones, then 
over the flat border, and so come to be plaited with the inner layer 
of projecting strands, and thus form with it the particular pattern 
desired (fig. 165). It will be now recognized how the thickening 
of the lower portions of the basket walls depends upon the two layers 
of original wall, the edging formed by the outer wall, and the super- 
