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CONCERNING LAPLAND. 279
SECTION XVIIL,
Of the Manufactures of Lapland.
Say Lapland women prepare the fkins of the foxes, fawns,
otters, and other animals for fale; to which end they ftrip
them of the membranes, and afterwards cure them with fifh oil.
The finews taken from the legs of the rein-deer are held before
the fire, and beaten with wooden hammers ; then they are divided
into filaments as fine as hair, which the women twift into threads
of different thicknefs. The women likewife ornament the har-
nefs of the fledges with tinfel wire, which they draw themfelves
through a machine made of the fkull of the rein-deer, provided
with holes of different fizes, according to the thicknefs of the wire
they have occafion for. With this wire the women afterwards
embroider, and fome of them in a very neat manner, not only the
harnefs of the rein-deer, but the coats and gloves of the men, as
has been already mentioned. The women likewife know how to
dye cloth in a yellow colour, which they apply to various orna-
ments. The blankets the Laplanders ufe are all woven by the
women ; and after having ferved for a time as a covering for their
beds, they join them together, as many as are neceflary, and con-
vert them into a covering for their tents.
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