The plaiting and inlaying are certainly borrowed from local usages, and the survival of the same kind of interlaced plaiting in the Scottish tartans is some evidence of the long familiarity of the Celtic race with the art of weaving.
Loveday was plaiting her flaxen hair into two long braids; she paused with the ribbon in her hand.
Where the art of plaiting twigs, splints, or reeds into mats and baskets had been discovered, it was not a long step to coat the inside with clay and dry or finally burn it before the fire.
Through all the languages there runs a single word for weaving or plaiting, but whether the original word referred to the weaving of cloth or to the plaiting of mats or baskets we do not know.
Just about such a night outside as the night old man Hart's wife and kids got lost two years ago," remarked Peg Leg Russel, who was busy with leather strings and an awl plaiting a fancy quirt.
The Chinese, artistic in all they do, converted the ridiculous and shaggy tuft of hair into a thick tail, the careful plaiting of which is now the Chinaman’s greatest delight and pride.
Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, and of putting on of apparel:" what then?
The children asked their dame what they could do to earn six-pence a piece; and she told them, that they might perhaps be able to earn this money by plaiting straw for hats, which they had all been taught to make by their good dame.
This plaiting of yours is not nearly so well done as ours," said Cymon, "look how uneven it is.
Ten yards from his hiding-place, in the shade of the /jacal/, sat his Tonia calmly plaiting a rawhide lariat.
He sat for many hours under the live oak tree plaiting and weaving in an extension to its lash.
Merwin, a ranchman in brown duck, with a contemplative eye, sat with his feet upon a table, plaiting a rawhide quirt.
Before the hearth the most grotesquely hideous unshaven poodle-dog you ever saw; and on the stool a fair little girl plaiting dinner-mats.
A very good, industrious little girl; and very clever at plaiting dinner-mats, in case his excellency should ever want any.
She went up to the little mat-plaiting girl as she gave that answer, and began playing with her long flaxen hair.
Here the women do their work--the weaving of cloth, or the plaiting of mats.
When a woman is plaiting a mat of split cane, or of reeds, she often gives the short ends, which she has cut off, to her little girl, who sits by her and tries to make a little mat with them.
Women plaiting straw, great yellow bunches of which hung at their waists, and children greeted us with shouts.
There were little old-fashioned girls, with handkerchiefs tied over their heads in womanly fashion, who kept on plaiting straw, and small boys nursing big babies, their hands and mouths full of bread and grapes.
Sometimes a man may be seen plaiting his own queue, which he does by taking it over the rung of a ladder, and moving backwards so as to preserve the strain.
The end of the operation is the plaiting of the long queue, which between the real and the false hair freely used reaches nearly to the heels, and is finished by a silk tassel plaited into the end.
Each girl worked in her own way, plaiting lengths of thin grass, and Mary hit on a brilliant notion of making brims out of the large leaves from a kind of dwarf palm that grew plentifully in the neighbourhood.
The two girls at once set to work with nimble fingers plaiting the tendrils together.
At home all are instructed in the feminine arts of spinning and weaving, as well as in embroidery, the knitting of lace, the making of all articles of dress, and also the plaiting of straw mats and baskets.
Pillow-made lace is built upon no substructure corresponding with a skeleton thread pattern such as is used for needlepoint lace, but is the representation of a pattern obtained by twisting and plaiting threads.
Specimen of Machine-made Lace in which the twisting and plaiting of the threads are identical with those of the hand-made specimen of fig.
The chief technical features of this pillow lace lie in the plaiting of the meshes, and the outlining of the clothing or toile with a thread cordonnet.
Ten yards from his hiding-place, in the shade of the jacal, sat his Tonia calmly plaiting a rawhide lariat.
Among their simple arts, plaiting and basket-work was one in which they approached the civilized level.
If this club had been decorated in a consistent manner the simple in-and-out plaiting of the broad band, as in the middle of the figure to the left, could not occur along with the finer oblique plaiting in other parts of the object.
The perfect manner in which the fabric in all its details of plaiting and weaving can be brought out is a matter of astonishment; the cloth itself could hardly make all the particulars of its construction more manifest.
Daniel Wilson[41] says that the early British urns may have been "strengthened at first by being surrounded with a plaiting of cords or rushes.
Both during the operation of plaiting and during the decoration of the adze-shaft songs were sung in a low voice to the gods, that they might further the work.
When the elements employed are all of one size, and when the plaiting is straight, the intersections form regular equilateral rectangles or squares.
Any one who has done any plaiting in bands of two colours knows that if the intersections be truly alternate the fringe along the opposite borders will all be of the same colour as in A, Plate VIII.
Make a deep plaiting of the cretonne and tack it across the front of the large box.
When there is a lid a narrow plaiting must be tacked across its front edge, which will, when the box is closed, lap over the top of the deeper plaiting.
The work that I preferred was plaiting ostrich sinews for thongs for the ostrich bolas.
He went to her help, unpinning the black coils, smoothing them and plaiting them in a loose braid.
His fingers worked nervously, plaiting and unplaiting the fringe.
Prokofy, the footman, who was so strong that he could lift the back of the carriage from behind, sat plaiting slippers out of cloth selvedges.
An old peasant whom Prince Andrew in his childhood had often seen at the gate was sitting on a green garden seat, plaiting a bast shoe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plaiting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
