| Several members had a go at plaiting straw with good results but said it was hard on the fingers. |
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| This is followed by the plaiting of the 12 strand main body of the outside surface of the whip. |
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| I dressed myself as quickly as possible, foregoing my usually headscarf by simply plaiting my hair loosely. |
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| He brought samples of flour and wheat seeds to explain how bread is made, and youngsters had a chance to have a go at plaiting dough. |
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| She was suddenly interested in her hands, stubby fingers busy plaiting three strands of grass. |
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| Divide the mane into equal sections and damp each section before you start plaiting. |
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| She is plaiting Duck's hair into dreads for the performance and laughing and joking, playing around on the lighting deck. |
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| Her bleached blonde hair is dragged up into neat golden coils of plaiting, like a sleeping snake on her head. |
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| She had finished plaiting my hair into the two long plaits that I wore everyday. |
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| She shook her head to physically remove the thoughts from her mind, and she set about plaiting her hair into a braid, tying the end with a pale purple ribbon. |
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| John hangs the leather on a plaiting hook and applies saddle dressing to the strands so that each one is individually stretched to assure a tight plait. |
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| Crafts include wood carving, plaiting, batik printing, bamboo working, and basket weaving. |
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| While we sit Waltener plays with some paper, effortlessly plaiting and weaving the scrap into a complicated sculptural form. |
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| He will bring ready-prepared dough and show the children how to plait dough, and the children will also be given the chance to take part in a plaiting competition. |
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| I spent a lot of time daydreaming and I planned out a new image for myself, which involved plaiting lots of thread into my hair. |
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| A girl of fifteen, perhaps, was plaiting pandanus-leaf to make a hat, and an old woman was sitting on her haunches smoking a pipe. |
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| Open-air permanent crops other than those under the previous heading and in particular those used for plaiting or weaving, harvested generally every year. |
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| He taught me the plaiting and tension techniques for the djembe. |
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| Crafts include wood carving, weaving, plaiting, and mat and basket making. |
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| The poor wretched boy was most unhappy at the hardhearted man servant who was thoroughly smearing his ai1 with yak butter, and then plaiting a tight pig-tail with curious twist in it. |
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| The technique may have developed from straight-sided braids converted to openwork or from the plaiting or knotting of the warp-ends of woven fabrics. |
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| Handicrafts include sandstone carving, weaving, coconut and bone carving, plaiting, basket weaving, and the production of coir and of gold and silver jewelry. |
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| When little more than a child, he was made to work hard in a silk factory, which he afterward deserted for the equally laborious occupation of straw plaiting. |
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| Other methods are knitting, crocheting, felting, and braiding or plaiting. |
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| Braiding or plaiting involves twisting threads together into cloth. |
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