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3674. A binoculars case that was used at the "lookout" of a whaler,
The flap is secured with a little wooden toggle.
3675. This ditty bag was from the Nantucket Shoals Lightship,
It has a knitted "purse" of fishline ('Ih877) and a wooden bottom,
leather-taped and studded with brass tacks.
3676. An ordinary ditty bag is made from two pieces of light
, .. duck, preferably linen, with from four to twelve eyelet holes around
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teen inches. The lanyard is about eighteen inches long and the
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handle or grip is about eight inches of the length. The length of the
legs exceeds one half the circumference of the bag.
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3678. A clothesbag is usually of heavier material, and is anywhere
from one foot to two feet in diameter and from thirty inches to
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• 3679. A roped canvas game bag with a wooden thimble or but-
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ton sewed flat against the surface .
3680. This clothesbag lanyard is a sport. It has but two legs with
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EYE SPLICES in the ends. The becket is an iron ring, hitched over
with fii 3605; the handle is SIX -STRAND ROUND SINNET finished off
with SINNET KNOT (fii757), and a TURK'S-HEAD closes the bag.
3681. Many old ditty bags have their seams piped, often in red
and blue wool. Clothesbags are more seldom piped. The handle of
this bag is EIGHT-STRAND SQUARE SINNET.
3682. A clothesbag. A RUNNING TURK'S-HEAD of stiff fishline
slides up and down the legs and serves to close the bag. The ends of
the legs are eye spliced to the eyelet holes.
3683. The strands on this bag lead through an ivory sleeve and
finish off with a MATTHEW WALKER KNOT (see frontispiece). The
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I 3686. A loop and button fastening (#659).
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3687. A ten-legged clothesbag lanyard. Lay up a three-inch sec-
tion of EIGHT-STRAND CROWN SINNET around a two-strand core and
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· , of TEN-STRAND ROUND SINNET (fii 302 I). Add _a series of six STAR KNOTS
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I • fourth knot, two strands more; seize and cut the ends off. After the six
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LEAD X FIVE-BIGHT X THREE-PLY TURK'S-HEAD.
3688. The typical ditty bag ltmyard of six strands is as follows:
Middle and lay up three pieces of small line to form an eye about
one and a half inches long. Tie a MATTHEW WALKER KNOT (~73I)
and add a section of ROUND SINNET six inches long. Follow with a
DIAMOND KNOT (fii693) and another section of ROUND SINNET and
finally add another knot the same as the first one.
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