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#77732 08/06/02 01:10 PM
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Actually straw bowls aren't straw at all, they are made out of willow twigs, or withe, which is retted (soaked) until it is pliable enough to weave into baskets. This is not to be confused with rattan, used to make wicker furniture, etc., which is never soaked, since, of course there is no rets for the wicker.



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

Left over right and under.
Right over left and under.

Simple!



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Left over right
Right over left


is how i learned it, but it was a square knot or sailors knot (i first learned it to tie a tie on a sailors type shirt.) never heard it called a reef knot.

as opposed to
Left over right and then
Left over right

which is "granny knot" a very weak knot, good for nothing..





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on a sailors type shirt

The neckerchief worn with the dress uniform of a petty officer or seaman is tied in a square knot. When properly done it looks almost as though it were a cylindrical slide. Some sailors on liberty will wear a slide rather than tying the neckerchief.


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Jackie,

You're bound to be able to weave straw, for else why we would have heard so often of "straw hats"?

People around here usually collected eggs in, well, egg baskets!

Bwock regards,
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Strictly speaking, dub-dub, straw for hats is plaited, although plaiting is so similar to weaving that I wouldn't usually pick that particular nit. (If for no other reason than for fear of trespassing on Faldage's territory!)

I have seen what Might be described as a "straw bowl", Jackie, made out of strips of plaited straw, would round and round and sewn together ( in a similar manner to a coiled pot) Some restaurants over here use them for bread or rolls, offered whilst you are waiting for your meal to be served.


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Dear RC : Plaiting is also called braiding, as in long hair. Strands cross at fortyfive degrees
Weaving strands cross at ninety degrees.Forgive the quibble.


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Forgive the quibble.

Certainly, Bill - all the more so as you really back up what I said - that plaiting is SIMILAR TO WEAVING - not the same: the angle, as you rightly point out, is less than the 90 degrees comon to most sorts of weaving ( exception being the weaving of cane for chair bottoms). However, I would have siad that the angle in plaiting was nearer to 60 degrees than 45?


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Dear RC: my eyesight these days has made it impossible for me to use protractor.
I was just remembering the many times I braided my wife's long hair for her.


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Dear Bill: my muscular fasciculations make it impossible for me to hold a protractor these days! I'm remembering days of plaiting ribbons, ropes and even grass!


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