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Arts and Crafts of the Cook Islands

Figure 263.—Technique of colored borders of mats. a, commencement of mat on left lower corner with butt ends (1) left long, check plait, with sinistrals (2) to left and dextrals (3) to right. b, forming left edge (4) by successively turning sinistrals that protrude beyond edge with piu turn to right to act as dextrals (2′); by this technique there are no free wefts on side edge to form decorative border and such borders thus restricted to commencement and finishing edges of koviri mats. c, tech…

Figure 263.—Technique of colored borders of mats. a, commencement of mat on left lower corner with butt ends (1) left long, check plait, with sinistrals (2) to left and dextrals (3) to right. b, forming left edge (4) by successively turning sinistrals that protrude beyond edge with piu turn to right to act as dextrals (2′); by this technique there are no free wefts on side edge to form decorative border and such borders thus restricted to commencement and finishing edges of koviri mats. c, technique to provide free wefts on side edges for paretumu mats: the sinistrals (2) not turned in but left projecting beyond line of side edge and fresh butt strips (5) are added from side to supply required dextrals (6). Technique of filling in corners of mats (d-f): d, the butt strip on the commencement and two side edges are run out to form free wefts and split again to half their width, as are free ends at finishing edge; top and right side borders are shown plaited in check for simplicity but in mats, various combinations of checks and twills are employed to produce patterns shown in figure 256. In top edge, last sinistral (1) from body of mat forms last of crossing elements and similarly on the right edge, last dextral (2) also forms last crossing weft; two butt strips (3, 3) carrying required number of narrow wefts are inserted along line of last dextral (4) of upper edge to supply required number of sinistral wefts (5) to complete upper part of border as shown. e, butt ends left free in previous figure are run out to supply required dextrals (3, 3) to finish right edge of border. f, completed corner.

Figure 263.—Technique of colored borders of mats. a, commencement of mat on left lower corner with butt ends (1) left long, check plait, with sinistrals (2) to left and dextrals (3) to right. b, forming left edge (4) by successively turning sinistrals that protrude beyond edge with piu turn to right to act as dextrals (2′); by this technique there are no free wefts on side edge to form decorative border and such borders thus restricted to commencement and finishing edges of koviri mats. c, technique to provide free wefts on side edges for paretumu mats: the sinistrals (2) not turned in but left projecting beyond line of side edge and fresh butt strips (5) are added from side to supply required dextrals (6). Technique of filling in corners of mats (d-f): d, the butt strip on the commencement and two side edges are run out to form free wefts and split again to half their width, as are free ends at finishing edge; top and right side borders are shown plaited in check for simplicity but in mats, various combinations of checks and twills are employed to produce patterns shown in figure 256. In top edge, last sinistral (1) from body of mat forms last of crossing elements and similarly on the right edge, last dextral (2) also forms last crossing weft; two butt strips (3, 3) carrying required number of narrow wefts are inserted along line of last dextral (4) of upper edge to supply required number of sinistral wefts (5) to complete upper part of border as shown. e, butt ends left free in previous figure are run out to supply required dextrals (3, 3) to finish right edge of border. f, completed corner.