Small seed beads have been popular ornaments on American Indian objects since the middle of the nineteenth century. Three-dimensional surfaces are easily covered with a netting stitch. The netted covering is secured to the basket at the rim and at the base. Single threads pass through two or three beads and are then paired with an adjacent thread and passed through a single bead thus creating the netted effect. Photo: W. C. Orchard, Beads and Beadwork of the American Indians, 1929