Fig. 70.
Fig. 71.
The whip is the easiest thing you can make of rushes. It is bound at intervals with wrapping of the rushes themselves.
RUSH RATTLE
Materials Required:—
Green rushes, small round pillbox.
This is made on the same lines as the whip, but the bundle or sheaf of rushes is opened out and made to surround a small cardboard box with a pebble or a pea in it, and another rush laced round to keep it in place. The diagram will show how to complete it; very tight firm binding is needed: it is better to do it with wool rather than with rushes.