This fern dish basket is woven over a small white enamel dish:
Weave a base 5-1/2 inches. Insert 2 spokes by the side of each base spoke. Consider each group of 2 spokes as 1 spoke. Turn up with two rows of triple twist. Place the dish in the basket and, while weaving around the dish, hold the spokes straight and draw the weaver tight. Weave twenty-nine rows. Curve the spokes over the dish and weave four more rows, single weaving, and two rows of triple twist in No. 2 reed.
Now bring each group of spokes back of the next two groups, out to the front, through the triple twist and down through the triple twist at the base of basket. When all the groups have been brought through the triple twist at the base, turn the basket upside down, and weave the following border for a stand for the dish:
Weaving to the right, each group is brought back of the next two groups and out to the front; second row, each group is placed in front of the next spoke and in back of the next where it is clipped off.
This basket is woven in a similar manner to Fig. 41. The spokes are of No. 2 natural reed, while the weavers are No. 2 light brown reed. The border, the outside spokes and the stand are of natural reed. This combination makes a strikingly attractive basket.
This flower basket is dyed after it is made and then waxed. The shape may be molded to accommodate any purpose.
8 spokes No. 5 reed, 5-1/2 inches. 39 spokes No. 5 reed, 26 inches. Handle——2 spokes No. 5 reed, 35 inches. Weavers No. 2 reed. Weavers No. 5 reed.
Weave a base five inches. Insert the 39 spokes, pinch sharply and turn upward. Make secure with three rows No. 5 reed in triple twist. Weave an inch with No. 2 reed, holding all spokes straight. Now continue the weaving by holding the side spokes straight and the end spokes down and out towards the weaver. Continue the weaving in this manner until seventy rows of simple weaving, and three rows triple twist No. 5 reed, are made. Finish with the following border:
First row, each spoke is placed back of two spokes and out.
Second row, each spoke is placed in front of two spokes and in.
Insert the two pieces No. 5 reed and weave a twisted handle as shown in Fig. 44.
10 spokes No. 5 reed, 5-1/2 inches. 20 spokes No. 5 brown reed, 28 inches. 19 spokes No. 5 brown reed, 15 inches. Handle——1 spoke No. 8 brown reed, 32 inches. Weavers No. 2 green reed. Weavers No. 4 brown reed. Weavers No. 2 brown reed.