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#77722 08/06/02 02:02 AM
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I read John Grisham's "A Painted House" when I went on vacation (and was quite disappointed in it, incidentally.)
When the little boy and his father gather eggs, they put the eggs into a "straw bowl". I've never heard of such a thing. Does anyone know what he was talking about?


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uh, a bowl made of straw?



like a wicker basket, perhaps?



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I agree with "wicker basket." Hi Jackie.


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From (failing) memory, straw baskets were made from a whisk of straw knotted like a reef knot. Used to carry anything small but solid on New Zealand farms way back when. I'd imagine it was something similar here.



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Hi, Sweet Alex. <grin> Well, I don't mind taking your-all's word for it, but. Was it just a substitute name, I wonder? You really can't weave straw that I know of, though I suppose you could always hand-cut some so it would be full length. If it was really a bowl, and really made of straw, how would it hold its shape? Hmm--maybe hand-cut a whole lot, maybe make "strands" of a dozen or so stalks bound together, and then weave the strands?


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Ok, CK, thank you. What is a reef knot, please?

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I vote for a bowl lined with straw.


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In their spare time, straw bosses weave straw bowls. Not.


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straw bosses weave straw bowls.

There you go again, Dr. Bill, setting up a straw man.


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better known as a Square knot, at least to us hip folk:

http://www.tinarooeec.qld.edu.au/Kids/reef.html

this is also a great site:

http://www.realknots.com/knots/reefk.htm

knot that I would know...



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