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220 Woodcraft Manual for Girls inches wide and one-half inch thick, with sauare edges, but thin, sharp point, and about as long as the yam-beani. Now, we are ready to begin. Run the batten between the yams under the sticks H H. Then drop it to the bottom and turn it flatwise, thus spreading the yams apart in two rows. Lay a line of soft bark, rags, or other woof in this q)ening on top of the batten, making sure that it projects a couple of m^es at each end. Double these long ends around the strong cords FF then back along themselves. Now draw out the spreading bat- ten and press the woof down light. .1.^*1. Run the batten through alternate threads again, but the reverse way of last, and this time it goes more slowly for the lack of a guide rod.* Lay a new line of woof as above. vVhen the •This is done much more quickly by help of a heald-rcd, that is, a hori- tontal stick as wide as the blanket, with every other strand of the warp loosely looped to It by * rumuM cord near the too. When th« rod is pdle^ forward it reverses the setdtht thmds and aUows the b»tt» to drq) in at<Hice.