Bos} STRUCTURE OF BASKETS Lit 
and sewed to the wrapped double coil until the original bend is 
reached (6), when it is doubled back in the opposite direction (c) and 
sewed to the finished portion. This process is continued until 
one-half of the proposed width of the bottom is completed. The other 
half is made in the same manner, with the remaining part of the 
original double coil; and the last time, when one side of the base 
has been reached the coil is carried around past the bent ends to the 
other side (d). There the loose ends of the coil of the first half are 
picked up and incorporated with the coil which now becomes the 
main spiral. Good basket makers are careful to cut out enough 
splints at this point so that the foundation will not be too thick, thus 
causing a lump, which would spoil the appearance of the whole 
basket. Figure 7, ¢ and d, show two ways of incorporating the coil. 
As the spiral is carried past the parallel coils, the ends of which consist 
in a series of loops, these are caught in the sewing and thus all is 
bound together. Along the sides the same process continues that 
was used when joining the parallel coils to one another (e). 
Fic. 7.—Parallel coiling for bottom 
A third method of fastening the end of the coil of the first half of 
the bottom with the encircling coil is to cut the splints off sharply 
on a line with the bends. When the coil which is inclosing the 
parallel portion passes this blunt end, the stitches which bind the parts 
together are run through the last few stitches which lashed this same 
“blunt-end”’ coil to its neighbor, and likewise through the end of the 
coil itself. Beéause it is at right angles to the sewing, a good hold 
can not possibly be gained in this way, but if the splint ends are 
doubled back into the coil itself, so as to form a loop instead of loose 
ends, there is something to catch into, and a firmer grasp is then 
possible. Even in the other two methods described above, where 
the splints of the coil which is to be incorporated are conducted in a 
direction parallel to the encircling one for a short distance, a few 
pieces are occasionally bent back into the body of the rest so that a 
firmer hold may be gained by means of the loops for the stitches 
which unite the two. 
Most of the informants, however, did not seem to know of this 
plan and either carried the two coils along together for a little way 
or sewed one to the blunt end of the other. 
