Then follows a gift of flat sticks, to be used in Plaiting.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
After that there is a world of ingenuity to be expended on the Plaiting, folding, cutting, and pricking of plain or coloured paper.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Some of his fellow-miserables fell to chatting; others to Plaiting ropes out of the straw on which they lay; while some occupied themselves in keeping a look out for the rats that swarmed everywhere and stole out in the dim light to gnaw the pieces of bread which the prisoners saved and hid away for future use.
"The Blue Pavilions"
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch