| 31. | The cottages they built were spacious to accommodate large families and cottage industries such as spinning and straw-plaiting.
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| 32. | Other industries have included leather-tanning, soft drinks, soya processing, laundry, straw-plaiting and stocking production.
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| 33. | Beyond weaving, fiber structures were created through knotting, twining, plaiting, coiling, pleating, lashing, and interlacing.
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| 34. | Subsequently straws are selected from the sheaves, and of these the pipes of the two upper joints are taken for plaiting.
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| 35. | During the 18th and 19th centuries, cottage industry linen weaving and straw plaiting began to supplement agriculture in the local economy.
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| 36. | The matting discovered at Grimes Point was later recognized as'the diamond plaiting type', which is a unique weave.
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| 37. | Modern slings are begun by plaiting the cord for the finger loop in the center of a double-length set of cords.
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| 38. | Ten yards from his hiding-place, in the shade of the jacal, sat his Tonia calmly plaiting a rawhide lariat.
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| 39. | Maggie taught a class of about fifty women and girls who became experts at sewing, singing and plaiting hats, and reading.
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| 40. | At its peak in the early nineteenth century a woman could earn more by plaiting than a man could earn on the land.
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