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on mechanically, and can pick up and drop the right dextrals by the sense 
of touch. In the vertical twilled two, instead of the upper dextral of eac 
pair being changed, it is the lower. In fig. 3, follow the course of the 
sinistral 87: the dextrals D8 and D7 pass under and D6 and D5 pass ov 
it. For the next sinistral, 88, the lower of the previous pair passi 
D8 is picked up, and the upper, D7, is carried on. The lower of t 
passing over, D6, is dropped to join D7. D5, the upper of the pair, is 
up, and will be joined by the lower of the next pair being picked up. 
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variety of designs can be obtained by plaiting alternate wid 
horizontal and vertical patterns, and even alternating with checker- 
ARTICLES MANUFACTURED. 
(1.) Mats. 
The term “mats” is here confined to plaited articles for sitti 
sleeping upon, and coverings used for domestic purposes. The 1 
unlike the Samoan, Hawaian, and others, did not plait mats for app 
2 \ 3 
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Fras. 4-10.—Method (a) of commencing the twist, or plait, whiri. · 
The word “ mat ” 
of the word is to be strongly 
Floor-mats 
anything spre 
