BoAs] STRUCTURE OF BASKETS 175 
In carriers or in round or oval shapes where the width across the 
middle of the base is greater than that across the ends, the slats 
lying on the outside are left full width through their centers but are 
shaved off toward their ends to assist in gaining the tapering form. 
Normal, straight slats often show considerable variation even in a 
single bottom, but careful workers try to have them uniform. There 
is no correspondence between their width and the size or kind of 
basket to which they may be applied, as may be seen from a few 
measurements which are given here: 
Basket Width of slats 
era en aoe he Se Sh ce) rece b 18 to 20 mm. wide. 
2. Small. burden, basket. = +. ----£) -- tonne ae 22 to 26 mm. wide. 
Sarma DUrdel DASKEL. 95. 2 ao = About 12 mm. throughout. 
4" Large box-shaped basket --~_=_--_....--------- 10 to 14 mm. wide. 
5. Small box-shaped basket___......_------------ 13 to 15 mm. wide. 
GwBaby carrientsle here tose UL Deed 16 to 18 mm. wide. 
Wop DADDY Carers! sei le a cern Oe eh bE Se About 18 mm. throughout. 
Sv lisehaitaie Gay SS Se ee ee eee 15 to 22 mm. wide. 
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Fic. 10.—Methods of making slat bottoms 
In the first of the three types mentioned before the bottom is 
started by surrounding the slat on two sides and one end by a bunch 
of coil splints equaling the slat in thickness. The ends of the splints 
extend beyond it to several times its length. Slat and splints are 
next bound together with a wrapping, beginning at the end over which 
the bunch of coil splints has been bent (fig. 10, a). When the whole 
slat has been wrapped, another is placed beside it, and one of the two 
parts of the bunch of coil splints is bent back around it. It is carried 
up along the bare outer side. The splint which served to wrap the 
first slat with its accompanying padding is now employed to sew the 
slats together (fig. 10, 6). The awl punches the holes in the wrapped 
padding lying between the two slats. A third slat is added in the 
same way after the first two have been sewed together. The inclosing 
padding thus forms loops as in the parallel coiled bottoms, with this dif- 
ference, that between each coil there is a slat, only one end of which is 
inclosed, so there are along top and bottom of the rectangle alternating 
covered and bare slat ends. The first piece of wood that is wrapped 
forms the center of the base, and as many more as are Necessary are 
added on either side, first one whole half being completed, then the 
