224 COILED BASKETRY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA _ [erH. ann. 41 
Thompson. When finished ordinary beading looks like a ribbon 
drawn along the coil, after it has been sewed over and under the 
stitches. Plate 18, 6, shows a lid decorated in this manner. The 
bark may be carried over or under varying numbers of stitches, any 
combination being permissible which lends itself to the formation 
of a pleasing design. When the ribbon passes beneath more than 
three stitches, however, it is cut off and started afresh, so as to avoid 
too great a waste of material. It is seldom carried over more than 
two stitches because, when so exposed, it is liable to wear off or to 
catch and tear. 
With the exception of the difference in the number of stitches 
passed over or under, the process which is about to be described in 
detail is the same in all cases. 
In the first place, the strip of colored bark is commonly laid face 
downward on the coil, extending to the left, with the right-hand end 
beneath the fingers at the point of sewing. A coil stitch is then made 
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over this end and pulled tight. Thus it is secured, and if the sewing 
splint is wide enough it is also covered over, although this is not 
absolutely essential as the next stitch hides the end completely. 
After the stitch has been made the strip is folded back over it and 
drawn taut to the right, the second stitch lying over the bark, which 
is now face upward. This time the coil stitch is left on top, the bark 
ribbon being merely folded back again face downward to the left 
to permit of a third coil stitch being taken which will lie underneath 
the ribbon when it is again brought back right side up to the right. 
If the beaded effect is over and under one stitch alternately the ribbon 
is thus folded back and forth, lying face down to the left, so as to 
be out of the way when a stitch is to be made directly on the coil 
and face up to the right when the coil stitch is to pass over it. Where 
a different combination is desired one or the other of the processes 
is repeated without alternation with the other as many times as is 
necessary. 
Another method of beginning the work is to place the ribbon right 
side up on the coil, with the left-hand end under the fingers at the 
point of sewing, the remainder lying to the right. This causes the 
first stitch on the coil to be exposed, and is a much less secure means 
of fastening the end of the ribbon. There are several ways of joining 
