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Practical and artistic basketry (1904)

Tinsley, Laura Rollins, Mrs · New York, Chicago, E.L. Kellogg & Co · leaf 18

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hemore common name, we shall use it through-out the book. The reeds are numbered by man-ufactures, No. 1 being the finest. Raffia comes from the island of Madagascar,and is the Malagsy name for the palm. A leafof this palm produces long green divisions, twoto five feet in length, like the leaf of… … 16 Practical Basketry. by being bleached from its original greenishcolor to a pure white. It is then split into stripsof different widths and numbered, Xo. I beingthe finest. Rush,—The flat or braided rush, which isimported by dealers in basket material, comesin green and brown. It is very…

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