To them, the plaiting and weaving still connect to their daily lives.

"Don't know he will for sure," answered Cary, looking up at her from his plaiting.

She had unravelled and was brushing out the elaborate plaiting of her hair.

It wound around the trees, a plaiting of many voices becoming something with a life of its own.

Gloves, usually black, are optional, as is the plaiting of the horse's mane and tail.

Some females were able to switch to the plaiting of straw hats, bonnets and mats.

The whip wraps snugly around the plaiting and Indy ties it off.

Until about the mid-20th Century, agriculture, animal husbandry and straw plaiting were the main sources of income in the village.

Many of the women were employed in lacemaking and the plaiting of straw.

Other leathers are used for the plaiting of heavier products suitable for everyday use.

Her dress was simple, as was the plaiting of her hair; she wore no jewellery or cosmetics.

Tezziq paused in her plaiting.

Traditional crafts include straw work on islands (each one having a unique plaiting or braiding style) creating beautiful hats and baskets.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, cottage industry linen weaving and straw plaiting began to supplement agriculture in the local economy.

Prudence bent over her plaiting, glancing at the man from time to time out of the corner of her eye.

She wore her fair hair looped in intricate plaiting, the whole snooded in a gem-spangled net.

Straw Plaiting was available again after 1815: the best Straw hats came from Livorno.

Bullwhips are usually measured from the butt of the handle to the end of the plaiting of the thong.

Drugar could tell by the plaiting of his beard-it was knotted in the guild braids -and by the silver mug.

Most of the artisans created their works traditionally with their hands through weaving, plaiting, and coiling, and commonly using simple and traditional equipment.

He turned his head to show the loss - fifteen years of careful plaiting, combing, encouraging with best Macassar oil, reduced to a bristly stump three inches long.

The suffix "lau" is used when formally counting fish, in reference to the customary plaiting of fish in leaves ("lau") before cooking.

Also known as checkerboard or diagonal weave, the plain design involves simple plaiting of one weft strand in and out over one warp strand and under the next.

As he sang, he was taking the Weave strands from his two assistants and plaiting them back into the hem of Hanali's cloak, slowly restoring it to its original flawless condition.

And there walking before him, as if on the other side of a brook, was the Lady herself-walking with her head a little bowed and her hands occupied in plaiting together some blue flowers.

A friend told her she had enough hair not just for two, but three plaits.

In an early school photo, most of the girls wear plaits.

She was about eleven, with long red hair in two plaits.

In human form, Alice has long dark brown hair with two side plaits.

She tossed her long plait of hair over one shoulder.

She was a menacing student with black and white plaits.

"You want your hair doing in a plait," he said.

She has large limbs and fair hair, usually in one long plait.

Many plaits, often to the horror of their owners, were cut off.

I could not sleep with the plait still fastened to me.

It hung down to the middle of her back in a carefully made plait.

But they all had plaits right long hair, all of them.

I realized the plaits of my hair had come undone.

He had long, full, thick hair pulled back in an intricate plait.

I could e a long plait of hair lying over one shoulder.

Mary has long blonde hair which her mother ties in plaits.

The hair was long, with short plaits clustered over the forehead.

Make slits on each side at an angle and plait.

The village was once a centre for the straw plait industry.

The woman wore her think blonde hair in what at one time would have been called a French plait.

Jack looks like a grown-up Oz with a long plait.

Doyle did not let go of the girl's plait, but he jerked at it, to make her sit down.

She wore her dark hair in plaits about her head.

She normally has her hair in plaits and is determined for Mark to became an admiral.

One in particular I noticed, a little slip of a thing with skin brown from the sun, and a long plait down her back.

She has dark eyes and long black hair, usually in two braids.

He was looking for the ones with no braid at all.

His dark hair was pulled back into a short braid.

"The last time I saw her she was still in braids."

He was used to seeing her with a braid all the time.

Let's take off the gold braid for a while and just talk.

I tied the end of the braid and moved my hands away.

Her long black hair was coming loose from its braids.

She lifted one of my braids and looked at me.

A woman must not leave her house with braids of cloth.

The new slaves would get their red braids, in time.

She had to let loose of her braid to take it.

On either side of the braid his body was bare.

Long, black hair flowed free but for the braid at one side.

"Do you want me to put it in a single braid, then?"

His hair was dark red and he wore it in two long braids.

A little girl with lots of dark hair in a fat braid down her back.

He did his best, but had to concentrate on how pretty her braid was.

Several of her songs can be heard in the video game Braid.

It has been worn with the braid on the outside ever since.

She turned and smiled at the fat woman of the many braids.

His hair had been pulled back in a tight braid.

I'd seen Doyle with his hair free of that braid only once.

One young man (below and right) pulled his top hair back to form a third braid.

I got to the end of his braid and spilled it into my hands.

Her hair is being plaited by a small woman on the right.

Then she sat down in front of the mirror to plait her hair.

For the moment, she is concerned with plaiting the three strands.

Storm sat back and began to plait her hair over one shoulder.

When women marry, they plait their hair in a particular style.

I sometimes plaited my hair before bed, but hadn't tonight.

It plaited itself into whatever I thought of, as a bodily pain would have done.

He was plaiting the fish line into a thin rope!

Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.

She found herself twining or plaiting nearly everything that came to hand.

She had plucked some blooms and started to plait them.

The girl was slowly plaiting her dark hair into a single braid.

Males plait it in one long braid, down the back.

She was dark and pretty, her hair plaited into checkerboard squares.

Local people also earned money by plaiting the straw to be made into hats.

Her hair was dark brown and plaited in such a way as to resemble the bark of a tree.

It has been used for straw plaiting hats and other similar uses.

Legend also states that he initiated the style of plaiting men's hair.

Their hair hangs plaited down the backs of both male and female.

Daisy is having her long golden hair plaited by giggling young women.

It shone black and silver like night sky plaited with moonlight.

Her long black hair was plaited into wide braids and pinned at the back.

She was about to start plaiting her hair when the big girl who had washed first said: "Wait, you!

A jackal went and met a child plaiting a rope.

The cords are plaited as a single cord to the pocket.

There might not be anything left to braid her hair for.

So anyone who wants to braid hair can go there.

Maybe we could braid each other's hair later and talk about boys.

All the women braid it; so do some of the men.

Her hair was still braided; that would have to do.

Back on land, some children enjoy having their hair braided.

How much longer before he actually started braiding it, just for something to do?

She spent an hour braiding his hair because he wanted to look just right.

Stop acting like a girl with her hair still not braided.

And if he failed to, she would braid one for him.

But I found out the way to braid leather myself.

Hair is braided into a crown high on the head.

I'm probably the only white person in Athens with their hair braided.

The rest are women, old sick men' and boys whose hair has never been braided.

She stood under the light long enough to pull her hair back and braid it.

Some would say the ability to be braided is its only virtue.

It took an hour and a half to braid properly.

Her hair was pulled back and braided in some fashion.

You ought to braid it like the woman in the picture, too, though.

One man was young, tall, with long fair hair braided down his back.

At once he parted her hair and started to braid it.

"Every day her hair was neatly braided and she looked clean."

As we left, I was approached by yet another woman who offered to braid my hair.

She was in riding dress, and had braided her hair.

He also had braided, beaded hair - but for only about six more hours.