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it is turned to the left on its edge, and the sewing progresses toward 
the right. A few individuals start the ‘‘ watch spring”’ with a coil finer 
than the one they intend to employ subsequently, but this is not a 
general method and is not essential to good workmanship. Plate 3, 
a, shows a bottom of this type. (See also Mason, pl. 68.) 
The elongated watch-spring type, of which Plate 3, 6, gives an 
illustration, is commonly used on baskets which are roughly rectan- 
gular. In starting this variety the ends of the coil splints are evened 
and that of the sewing splint is laid diagonally across the coil near 
the end on the side toward the weaver, with the long end falling 
downward to the left (fig. 4, a). The splint is then carried around 
behind the coil and up over it and down slightly to the right, crossing 
itself (b). This keeps it from unraveling later. 
The sketch shows the wrapping placed at slightly more of an angle 
- than really oceurs. Then the binder continues in quite the same 
way as the sewing—down, and around behind, up and over to the 
right, until a sufficient length has been wound (ce), when the rest of 
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Fic. 4.—Beginning of coils for elongated watch-spring bottoms 
the coil is bent around to the left (d), and sewed along one side, 
the wrapping now becoming the sewing element. When the original 
end is reached the coil is bent around it; and if there are any loose 
splints protruding where the wrapping began, they are now incor- 
porated in the encircling coil, and all is sewed down to the other side 
of the wrapped section. The process is continued around and around 
until the bottom is large enough (e). 
Another method of wrapping starts by inclosing the wrapping 
splint in the bunch of coil splints, but having the inserted end free 
in the opposite direction to the end of the coil (fig. 4, f). All the 
ends are then held firmly with the fingers of the left hand, and the 
wrapping splint drawn up through the coil and bound around it in 
the same way as in the first method (g). Both schemes seem to be 
in common use, some women using one, others the other, while a 
few apparently employ both, indiscriminately. Sketch h of the same 
figure shows the method of incorporating the loose ends of the coil 
splints in the encircling coil when the splints have not been cut off 
and evened. 
