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Ka Hana Kapa. 



lines painted on the upper side; bj- no means a fine piece of work. The smooth sides 

 were put together and the edges turned back about five-eighths of an inch ; the thread 

 was then passed through and back (not over) the folded edge, close to this and at intervals 

 of a quarter inch ; the thread is smooth and of small twisted fibres, and the seam hardly 

 shows on the right side, and it is not easj- to follow the thread on the other. 



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Fio. 62. IPPKR .si'rFace of Fig. 61. 



I should have called attention to the deft mending with a few stitches of the same 

 thread used in the seam, near the middle of the iipper half, Fig. 58. This mending 

 in thin kapa was alwaj-s done with paste and a thin bit of the cloth, but in thick 

 specimens like this these thread mendings are often seen. Genuine darning I have 

 never seen; it is always the twining stitch. In the Florentine specimen the thread 

 seems to have been drawn tightly when the kapa, which is now very hard and stiff, 

 was wet or moistened, and the ridge formed was then beaten or pressed flat. 



