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two of them are near two corners while four are near the other two. 
One gap is quite as wide as those which have been supplied with 
these “‘fillers’’ and this is left entirely bare. 
Such a lack of symmetry is due not only to the fact that no attempt 
is made to count the stitches or to measure spaces, except by eye, 
but also to the woman’s poor judgment in spacing and incapacity 
for calculation. Even in such work as this, where study reveals so 
many discrepancies, it is surprising how well the finished product 
appears to the casual observer, and it is indeed remarkable that 
such good results are obtained with such a complicated problem 
and by such methods as each woman has at her command. No 
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better gauge than a true eye could be desired, but many women, as 
with ourselves, do not possess this gift. And so, without natural or 
mechanical aid, they nevertheless struggle with the most perplexing 
and patience-exhausting artistic and technical problems, with results 
that are often not without real beauty. 
Figure 68 and Plate 47, d, give a similar basket, in which all the 
blocks extend over two coils and each horizontal row consists of 
blocks which lie at the same level. The number of coils in the inter- 
vals between the horizontal rows is five in each case except the last, 
where it increases to six. Vertically the blocks are very carefully 
aligned, but entirely by eye. The intervening stitches vary in num- 
ber not only between different vertical rows of blocks but also be- 
tween different pairs of single blocks in any two adjoining rows. 
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