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left side of the juncture of the rafter and crosspiece, and around tlie rafter just above the crosp- 

 piece from rig-ht to left. The half hitch was lightened and the strand brought into a vertical 

 position on the outside of the crosspiece. The loose end was then passed across the vertical 

 strand as close to the rafter as possible, down its right side, across it again at the bottom, and 

 behind the rafter from left to right. The flatness of the sennit cord prevented this loop from 

 slipping over the vertical strand. The cord was carried across the original strand and the first 

 loop as close to the rafter as possible, up the left side of the original strand, and across the 

 original strand and first loop at the top, close to the rafter. The cord was then passed behind 

 the rafter from right to left. This was repeated until the oval had a width of five strands at 

 the center. The end of the cord was then at the upper left hand corner of the figure. It was 

 passed across the lashing in front of the rafter, down the right side of the lashing behind the 

 crosspiece, across its bottom and up its left side behind the crosspiece. This completed the 

 black part of the figure. The strands were pulled taut and the black cord carried on in front 

 of the rafter to the next rafter to the right. 



The brown cord, coming from the left, was brought across the top of the black lashing 

 in front of the rafter, down its right side behind the crosspiece, across to the left, and around 

 tlie rafter from left to right. The end was then at the lower right hand corner of the figure. 

 Two loops up, around the rafter, and down on the opposite side of the figure were then made, 

 tlie method being the same as that used with the black cord. This gave to the oval a width 

 of nine strands, the two outer strands on each side being brown and the rest black. The 

 cord was then carried across to the left, up the left side of the lashing behind the crosspiece, 

 and across the lashing again at the top, with the end carried on to the next rafter on the right. 



The cross lashing was much more complicated. It can be made as follows : Bring the 

 black cord from the left along the top of the crosspiece, pass it around the rafter from right 

 to left, down over the crosspiece, around the rafter from left to right, up the left side of the 

 rafter behind the crosspiece, and through the upper loop. Tighten lashing, pass the end down 

 the left side of the lashing behind the crosspiece and up, over the front of the crosspiece, plac- 

 ing it close against the original outside strand on the left. Pass the end downward behind the 

 rafter diagonally to the right, bringing it out at the lower right corner. Bring it up over the 

 crosspiece diagonally to the left, around the rafter from left to right and diagonally down 

 over the crosspiece right to left. Carry it behind the rafter from left to right, across the 

 front of the rafter, and up the left side of the lashing behind the crosspiece. Wrap twice around 

 the crosspiece and pass the end around the rafter below the crosspiece from left to right. 

 Bring it up diagonally over the crosspiece from right to left, placing the cord close against 

 the left side of the first diagonal. Pass the end around the rafter left to right, and bring it 

 down over the crosspiece diagonally to the left. Pass around rafter left to right, across to 

 left in front of rafter, and up left side of lashing, behind crosspiece. Leave black. 



Bringing the brown cord from the left pass it over the black lashing below the crosspiece, 

 up the right side of the lashing, back to the left, and under itself from the rear. Pull the loop 

 tight. Pass the brown cord twice around the crosspiece. taking care to have these strands lie 

 on the left of the four black strands already in position and close against them. Pass the end 

 around the rafter above the crosspiece from right to left, diagonally down over the crosspiece 

 from left to right, around the rafter from right to left, up over the crosspiece diagonally to 

 the right, and around the rafter from right to left. Leave brown. 



This finishes the first half of the figure, and should give a vertical band of six strands, 

 the two strands on the left being brown, which has on its right an X figure with arms three 

 strands in width, the first strand on the left side of each arm being brown. 



Take up the black cord, which was carried up the left side of the lashing behind the 

 crosspiece. Carry it across the lashing in front of the rafter, down the right side of the lash- 

 ing, across the lashing again, and up behind the rafter diagonally left to right, the end emerg- 

 ing at the upper right hand corner. Bring it down over the crosspiece diagonally right to left, 

 around rafter left to right, and up diagonally over the crosspiece right to left. Pass it down 

 behind the rafter diagonally left to right. \\'rap it twice around the crosspiece. Carry the end 

 across the lashing below the crosspiece to the left, and up diagonallv behind the rafter, emerg- 



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