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Tatting

noun

Needlework consisting of handmade lace made by looping and knotting a single thread on a small shuttle.

The act or art of making handmade lace. Synonym: lace making.

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"Tatting" Quotes from Famous Books

... used those small fingers suggested to me the idea of teaching her some of the more delicate kinds of fancy-work. But it seemed that she required no teaching. An opportunity given of looking on while one was embroidering, crocheting, or making tatting, and the process was her own. Native tact imparted to her at once the skill which others attain only by long practice. As for her fine sewing, it was exquisite; and in looking at it, one half regretted the advent ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 • Various

... governess justice, she did her best to impart her own superficial acquirements to us. We plodded regularly through French exercises, which she corrected by a key, and she kept us at work for a given number of hours during the day; tatting by our sides as we practised our scales, or roasting her petticoats over the fire, whilst Matilda and I read Mrs. Markham's England or Mrs. Trimmer's Bible Lessons aloud by turns to full-stops. But when lessons were over Miss ...

— Six to Sixteen - A Story for Girls • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... Designs are formed by a very simple combination of Tatting and Crochet, the more elaborate style of both Works being avoided, so that any Lady with a knowledge of the first rules of each Art will be able to accomplish the patterns without the least difficulty, the Stars and Diamonds being made in Tatting and afterwards worked round with ...

— Golden Stars in Tatting and Crochet • Eleonore Riego de la Branchardiere

Words linked to "Tatting" : needlecraft, needlework, handicraft, tat