Do not use rough or saw-edged grasses for any of this work, for they sometimes cut the hands, and the seed-top grasses must not be old enough to shed their seeds into your eyes. When dry most grass is quite brittle and will break if you attempt to bend it. The fresh, green, soft and pliable grasses are the kind you need and these you may always find in season.
CHAPTER VII
THE POSSIBILITIES OF A CLOTHES-LINE
YOU can form it into graceful patterns of curves and coils, loops and rings; you can weave it basket-fashion or net it together with brass curtain-rings, and you can fray it out into soft, pretty tassels. You can make it into a decorative wood-basket, a grille for an open doorway, fringe for curtains and portières, or decoration for the top of a wooden chest. One use will suggest another and you will probably find some way of adapting the rope that has never yet been thought of.
Hemp rope and cotton, large rope and small, down to the ordinary heavy twine, all lend themselves to this work.
It requires a rather heavy clothes-line, one considerably lighter, called by some rope-cord, and a piece of strong twine for the
Wood-Basket