chapter II

, Figs. 2, 3, and 4. Weave the bottom the desired diameter, and turn up the nine spokes as stakes. If eighteen stakes were wanted, cut spokes as above only long enough for the bottom. When it is woven insert a stake each side of each spoke, and the result is eighteen stakes.

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Three spokes crossing three spokes and turning up when the bottom is woven gives twelve stakes, and if the spokes are cut only long enough for the bottom and a stake inserted each side of each one the result will be twenty-four stakes.

Four crossing four and turning up will give sixteen, and by insertion thirty-two.

Five crossing five and turning up will give twenty, and by insertion forty.

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Then, again, if one is not extra careful to get the spacing of the spokes equal, it will be found easy, when the bottom is partly woven, to insert a stake where two are too far apart or to cut out one where they are too near together. This will never be noticed when the bottom is fully woven. One can easily see that in this way one can get any number of stakes on which to weave. By reference to