rorH] BABY SLINGS 401 
on a support (A) or on the toes (B). Taking a ball of cotton, the 
strand is tied over both crosspieces into a knot (fig. 211 a) exactly 
below and on the left-hand side of the lower one, and is then wound 
from below up over the front of the frame, and back again, care being 
taken that though in close apposition it nowhere overlaps. It is thus 
wound around and around some 300 to 400 or more times, according 
to the taste and caprice of the maker, and as it finally comes around 
from the back is looped 
and tied (fig. 211 6) to the CMY, YOK 
preceding thread on ex- « \ OOK 
actly the same level as the YA YA YK YAS YK 
initial knot. The reason OK OOOK 
for these two knots being © 
tied on the outside of the 
frame is to allow of the ar- 
ticle being rolled bodily 
down over the frame dur- 
ing the course, and for the 
convenience of manufac- 
ture. The reason for their being on the same level will be appreciated 
later. Whatever the number of times the strand may be wound on the 
frame, there is one absolute essential, and this is that the number of 
strands is in multiples of four. It is only for descriptive purposes 
that I am supposing the sling to be now made of 40 strands, because, 
as a matter of fact, so 
narrow a sling resulting 
would be absolutely use- 
less for carrying an in- 
fant in. Two methods 
of frame-looping are in 
vogue according as we 
are making the two-and- 
two or two-and-one pat- 
tern (figs. 212, 213). 
The former I have so 
named because it is a case 
of dropping and picking up a pair—i. e., two strands throughout— 
whereas in the latter each pair is split so that the adjacent constituents 
of two contiguous pairs form the halves of one new pair (fig. 226). 
485. The manufacture of the two-and-two pattern, the easier, may 
be described as follows: Starting from the left side (fig. 214), pick up 
the first pair of strands and, passing them under and to the right of 
the second pair, place them on your left middle finger. Pick up the 
third pair, and passing them under and to the right of the fourth 
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Fic. 2138.—Frame looping—two-and-one mesh. 
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