CONCERNING LAPLAND. 
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SECTION XVIII, 
Of the Manufactures of Lapland. 
r lH HE Lapland women prepare the fkins of the foxes, fawns, 
otters, and other animals for fale; to which end they jftrip 
them of the membranes, and afterwards cure them with fifh oil. 
The finews taken from the legs of the rein-deer are held before 
the fire, and beaten with wooden hammers ; then they are divided 
into filaments as fine as hair, which the women twift into threads 
of different thicknefs. The women likewife ornament the har- 
nefs of the fledges with tinfel wire, which they draw themfelves 
through a machine made of the fkull of the rein-deer, provided 
with holes of different fizes, according to the thicknefs of the wire 
they have occafion for. With this wire the women afterwards 
embroider, and fome of them in a very neat manner, not only the 
harnefs of the rein-deer, but the coats and gloves of the men, as 
has been already mentioned. The women likewife know how to 
dye cloth in a yellow colour, which they apply to various orna¬ 
ments. The blankets the Laplanders ufe are all woven by the 
women; and after having ferved for a time as a covering for their 
beds, they join them together, as many as are neceffary, and con¬ 
vert them into a covering for their tents. 
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