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OCCUPATIONAL KNOTS
376. A square knotting or macrame shuttle knot serves a similar
purpose.
In Chapter 28 ("Lashings and Slings") parcel tying, a subject of
importance to the housewife, is discussed.
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377. The proper way to secure a wire to a screw eye: Small gal-
vanized stovepipe wire is about the best picture wire; it is easier to
work, easier to cut, cheaper to buy, and less in evidence than other
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WIres.
378. The ordinary way of making a loop or securing the end of 378
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a WIre to a screw eye. 319
379. If there is a vibration from the outside that tilts all your pic-
tures askew, hang them from a single wire which passes through
both screw eyes and makes fast to two picture hooks.
380. When walls are of brick and the plaster is powdery, take a
half-inch board seven or eight inches wide and nearly as long as the
width of your picture. Place a hook near the center, pepper the sur- -
face with small-wired brads, and drive them almost through the
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board. Put the board in place and drive the brads home with as little
jar as possible. A "nail set" will help. This very practical method was
shown me by a friend who had employed it to hang a six-foot canvas.
381. The common way of knotting a simple bandage. Anything
more elaborate is generally fastened with adhesive tape.
382. A stubborn screw top on a jar may be started by winding a
number of turns of string around the top to provide a better hand-
hold. Elastic bands are even better, and adhesive tape will also serve
the purpose well.
The Jeweler
"R. L.," of Tiffany and Company, very kindly supplied the
method of stringing pearls. I do not feel that I can improve on the 3S1
explicit instructions that were sent me, so I will quote them verbatim:
383. The PEARL KNOT. "The knot itself is only a simple single
knot. There will be two, three, or four strands of silk, according to
the size of the pearls and their holes. The knots will be as numerous - •
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as may be desired, sometimes one after each pearl, or after each five 11.' ".
or more pearls.
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"Each knot is tied by putting the pearls that have been strung
through the loop [see second diagram], instead of the alternative of
pulling the free end of the silk through the loop each time. The pearls ---.
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on the string give weight in forming the loop, and thus make a better -
knot than the free silk would do. •
"At both ends, where the clasp and click are, the silk is knotted 382
back through the last pearl, so that the end of the silk is finally
knotted between pearls and not tied simply to the clasp and click.
"Larger knots often have to be made if the hole in the pearl is too
large for a single knot. These larger knots are made by knotting only
two strandi of the three." (See first diagram.)
384. This charming insect, made of knotted human hair, to serve
as a breast pin, is abstracted from a commercial catalogue of the mid-
nineteenth century, entitled Jeweller's Book of Patterns in Hairwork.
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