"Field of Oil-Seed Rape"(Note: I believe in North America rape seed is used to make cooking oil. - JS). Ply-split Darning. Cords 3/8 ins diameter of rug wool. This is a very common country summer view here, with the dazzling yellow and the scent overwhelming everything. Cords lie horizontally, each carefully made to get the colour and effect wanted. All are connected closely together by another (hidden) set of cords which split straight through vertically. Height 8 ins, width 5 ins. Experimental, complete with errors noticed with annoyance when too late to go back and re-split!

Ploughed Field mat: 1/4 ins diameter cords of rug wool, with 2-colour AABB strand sequence. POT for central part (splitting alternately under 2 light strands, 2 dark), with 3 rows of PS darned border in plain colour cord. 9 ins square.

Small TLOI bag: Cords 3/8 ins diameter, more loosely twisted than usual, in AABB strand sequence. TLOI = Two-Layered Oblique Interlacing. The cords (showing as the fringe) are split in such a way that the fabric falls (quite magically) into two layers with, in this case, ready-joined selvages, as you work downwards. On the reverse is the opposite colourway of white with dark selvages. Length of bag 5 ins (not including fringe), width 4 ins, and big enough to hold all your credit cards plus some loose change, gripfid, scissors and a couple of favourite photos. (See page 145 in Techniques of Ply-Split Braiding by Peter Collingwood)