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    Sennit is a type of cordage made by plaiting strands of dried fibre or grass. It can be used ornamentally in crafts, like a kind of macramé, or to make...
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    Chain sinnet (redirect from Chain sennit)
    A chain sinnet (or chain sennit) is a method of shortening a rope or other cable while in use or for storage. It is formed by making a series of simple...
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    basher, skimmer, The English Panama, cady, katie, canotier, somer, or sennit hat) is a semi-formal summer hat for men, which was popularised in the late...
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    meaning "strong" or "great"; *kafa is also the Proto-Polynesian term for sennit rope (e.g. Hawaiian: ʻaha), a strong rope made from coconut fibres and used...
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    god figure wrapping for the war god 'Oro, made of woven dried coconut fibre (sennit), made to protect a Polynesian god effigy (to'o), carved from wood...
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    casual hobbyist or ambitious crafter. Chinese knotting List of hitch knots Sennit Crochet Knitting Harvey, Virginia (1967). Macrame : the art of creative...
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    fléchée Kumihimo, Japanese braid List of hairstyles Ply-split braiding Sennit Kyosev, Yordan (2014). Braiding technology for textiles. Woodhead Publishing...
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    tầm Beaver hat Beret Boater (also basher, skimmer, cady, katie, somer, or sennit hat) Bobble hat (tuque) Boonie hat Budenovka Bucket hat, also fishing hat...
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    in English as meaning "sacred". Some terms using 'kapu': ʻaha kapu: the sennit cord put across the portal of a house to signify a ban on entering the house...
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    and the lengths of yarn are attached using a hitch called a "railroad sennit". This creates a long, shaggy fringe which, when the marline is wound around...
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    1922, Ashley was granted Patent US1433868A for "A novel method whereby sennits of any desired cross-sectional shape may be plaited without the necessity...
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    important source of food. It is also used for making coconut oil, baskets, sennit rope used in traditional Samoan house building, weaving and for the building...
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  • taking his wife back. He turns her eyes into lights for her sister to make sennit (magi-magi) and her feet into supports for the sister's work basket. The...
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    minutes we closed a gap of centuries. Progenitor and descendant... the sennit-lashed proa with her crab-claw sail matched the trimaran's space-age profile...
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    Seizing A knot used to hold two lines or two parts of the same line together. Sennit A number of lines interwoven in a complex pattern. See also Chain sinnet...
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    bearing the symbols of orator status – the fue (flywhisk made of organic sennit rope with a wooden handle) over their left shoulder. The central elder holds...
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    Mittelwellenanlage in Zypern wird eliminiert". Radio eins rbb. Retrieved 2021-05-11. Sennit, Andrew G. World Radio TV Handbook (various years ed.). Billboard Books...
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    first domesticated coconuts, used coconut fibre extensively for ropes and sennit in building houses and lashed-lug plank boats in their voyages in both the...
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    to an A major triad. Prior to the introduction of steel strings, gut or sennit (coconut fibre) was used. The strings were strummed with one hand while...
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    buildings were constructed without nails, lashed together with plaited sennit rope handmade from dried coconut fibre. Following contact with Europeans...
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    Mathematical Related topics Chinese knotting Density History International Guild of Knot Tyers Macramé Mizuhiki Norigae Ropework Lashing Splicing Seizing Sennit...
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    candlenut-soot pigment, turtle shell was replaced by Perspex and other plastics, and sennit by nylon fishing line. In the interests of hygiene, tufuga began to use...
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    Mathematical Related topics Chinese knotting Density History International Guild of Knot Tyers Macramé Mizuhiki Norigae Ropework Lashing Splicing Seizing Sennit...
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    in its construction. The fale is lashed and tied together with a plaited sennit rope called ʻafa, handmade from dried coconut fibre. The ʻafa is woven tight...
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    A Micronesian navigational chart from the Marshall Islands, made of wood, sennit fiber and cowrie shells....
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    Mathematical Related topics Chinese knotting Density History International Guild of Knot Tyers Macramé Mizuhiki Norigae Ropework Lashing Splicing Seizing Sennit...
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