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modern principies oí its manufacture at least, this would be 
difficult, if not impossible, especially in the case of tlie square- 
meshed variety. 
The otlier type of cordwork (figs. 19 & 24) (Plates VII & IX) 
is so similar to the netted type in certain points, the knot 
itself being identical in appearance, that it vías at first taken 
for netting, but this idea ivas soon abandoned. In the first 
place, the space betveen the cords is oblong in shape, whereas 
in netting, owing to the fact that the knot pulís always into 
the centre of the loop, the mesli must of necessity be equila- 
teral. In the second place, further examination made it clear 
that all the lines running in one dircction and forming the 
sliort sides of the oblong, consisted of double threads, while 
those running at right angles to them were single, which 
proves that the fabric was not netted but woven. 
There are two varieties of this woven cordwork. In the first, 
as seen in figure 19, the warp consists of horizontal threads 5' ,,m 
apart, crossed by the double threads of the weft at distances of 
xo mm . Of these two threads, botli of which start from the same 
point, one is passed in the form of a loop behind a thread of 
the warp, while the end is brought up over the warp thread 
and then down through the loop thus made, which is tlien 
pulled taut, forming an apparent knot. The otlier thread simply 
passes behind the warp thread. The two tlien change places, 
Crossing each otlier before reaching the next warp thread, and 
exchanging functions, so that the two threads are knotted in 
turn on altérnate lines of the warp (fig. K) (Píate VIII). In 
the second variety (fig. 24), the warp is diagonal, the threads 
being 2 ,nn, 5 apart and the weft threads, in pairs as before, 
cross them perpendicularlv at intervals of 5™'”. It forms a cióse 
net of very complicated appearance, and seemed at first to 
offer great difficulties in working out, but on examination, 
the design proved to be very similar to that in the first-named 
variety, the only differeuce, apart from the diagonal warp and 
the greater closeness of the work, being that each weft thread 
after forming its knot 011 a warp thread, passes over instead of 
under the next one (fig. C) (Piale IX). It is a snggestive fact 
that, wlien a piece of this woven network is unfixed from the 
frame in which it is made, the so called knots slacken, and 
the whole fabric, so f irin and regular before, becomes loose and 
apparently utiserviceable. There seems little doubt that it must 
