"Then nail slender uprights, ten inches tall, at each of the four corners and connect them by two other thin sticks twenty-five inches long, running just above your first pair of twenty-fives. Do you get it?"
Again the boys nodded.
"That's all there is to it, and you really don't need to make that for a plain, smooth plank will do at a pinch."
"How do you carry your woof across?" asked Margaret. "Your hand would be in its own way, I should think."
"You thread the raffia into a wooden bodkin about twenty-six inches long."
"I can see that you must draw the cross threads down tight the way we did in weaving the baskets," said James.
"Indeed you must or you'll turn out a sleazy piece of weaving," answered Della.
"There must be oceans of articles you can make out of woven raffia."
"Just about everything that you can make out of a piece of cloth of the same size."
"Of cotton cloth? Ha!"