Page 173 - Eric C. Fry - Knots and Ropework
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Mats, perhaps more than any other form of decorative
ropework, provide the means of creating a multitude of 95
designs, the illustration merely showing a suggested layout
comprising a jury mat centrepiece surrounded by an oval Suggested
of double chain plait.
Eleven individual carrick mats surround the centrepiece
followed by four runs of three-strand common sennit, Layout of
the first scalloped and the remainder forming the border,
the whole being sewn together with sail twine or the Multi-Unit
modern equivalent.
Mat
