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Handicrafts 171 In rough, hasty work, the lashing of the poles is dispensed with, the poles being held in place by knots left projecting on the two main end supports. This answers for the clay or the bough roof, but will not do for birch bark or other shingling. IL IV £ 4 (b) Camp Loom and Grass Mats The chief use of the camp loom is to weave mats for the beds of grass, straw, hay, or, best of all, sedge. JI have made it thus: i Loose Crost-bar .o Fixed Cross-bay fF A 3-foot cross-bar A is fast to a small tree, and seven feet away five stakes are driven into the ground 8 inches apart, each 3 feet out of the ground. Five stout cords are tied to each stick, and to the cross-bar, keeping them parallel. Then, between each on the cross-bar, is attached another cord (four in all), the far end of which is made fast to a loose cross-bar, B. One person raises the loose cross-bar B, while another lays a long bundle of grass tight in the corner C. Then B is low- ered to D, and another roll of grass or sedge is tucked in on the under side of the stake cords. Thus the bundles are laid one above and one below, until the mat is of the required length. The cords are then fastened, the cross-bars removed, and the mat, when dried, makes a fine bed. When added to