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(1.) Knotting the Strips together.
When the netting-strip becomes too short to complete the next mesh the butt-end of a fresh strip is knotted to it. The two may be placed together and an overhand knot tied with them both. The usual knot, however, is the weaver's knot, for which I could get no Maori name. It is the common knot used by the Maori in joining two strips together. As it is made in a quick, neat way, the following details are given: The butt end of the additional strip is crossed under the end of the shortening-strip.
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The crossing is held in position with the left thumb and forefinger, the thumb being above (fig. 24). The free part of the new strip, B, is looped over the thumb-nail, passed under its own projecting butt-end, and back over the old strip, A, as in fig. 25. The end of the old strip, A, is doubled back over
Figs. 24–27.—Joining netting-strip with weaver's knot.
B and held down on itself with the left thumb (fig. 26). Holding the doubled-back strip, A, firmly with the left finger and thumb, the new strip, B, is pulled, and the loop tightened into the knot shown in fig. 27.