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1. Local Crafts - Basket-Making

   

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   Although basket-making is not so common as it was some years, it is still practised by those who are expert in the art.
   First, a hoop of briar is made by joining both end of the briar together to form the mouth of the basket. A number of "sally" rods are split and an odd number such as five, or seven are used to form the framework of the basket. These rods which are called "ribs" are joined to the sides of the hoop and are allowed to hang down in a curve under the hoop so as to have the basket deep. Then the other end of each "rib" is turned up and joined to the hoop at a point dramatically opposite the point to which it was first joined. When this is done all the ends of the "ribs" should be meeting at the same point on one side of the hoop an all the other ends at the same point exactly opposite. After this, the weaving of long slender sallies is begun at one end of the "ribs" and it is continued into the middle of the basket. Then the interweaving of "sallies" is begun at the other end of the "ribs" and is worked into the middle where the other weaving finished.
   A stronger sally "rib" is put down the

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