tatting

About three minutes later, all this tremendous rat tatting began.

"And do ask her to bring my tatting.

The appearance is much the same as modern "tatting" and macramé work."

The second technique approximates true tatting because a single thread passes through the stitches.

You do the most splendid tatting!"

Tatting is a technique for handcrafting a particularly durable lace constructed by a series of knots and loops.

Tatting is a technique for handcrafting lace that can be documented approximately to the early 19th century.

He went to his table and after a final cryptic glance toward Reith took up his tatting.

I missed her endless tatting.

Frivolite or "Tatting is a curious variety of lace or trimmings."

Tatting can be used to make lace edging as well as doilies, collars, and other decorative pieces.

Tatting: Technique and History.

Tatting may refer to:

She's a premature feminist, refusing to stick to her tatting, insisting on joining the men folk in their glum, scheming talk of politics and business.

Several times during our stay, a gray-haired lacemaker sat in its shade, hands busy at her tatting, seemingly unperturbed by the human traffic.

On her left were two matrons, with massive foreheads and bonnets to match, discussing Women's Rights and making tatting.

Tatting (disambiguation)

Blade was a grandfather, and Lacey was plagued with aching joints that had finally forced her to set her endless tatting aside.

In older tatting and crocheting patterns, picots were sometimes specified as purls, purl stitches, or pearl stitches.

Czech tatting fan Czech fan site about tatting in English language.

Traditional shuttle tatting may be simulated using a tatting needle or doll needle instead of a shuttle.

Well, after all, old gentlemen were better than no gentlemen at all, thought Scarlett, measuring out the tatting and submitting demurely to being chucked under the chin.

Some believe that tatting may have developed from netting and decorative ropework as sailors and fishers would put together motifs for girlfriends and wives at home.

Tatting has been used in occupational therapy to keep convalescent patients' hands and minds active during recovery, as documented, for example, in Betty MacDonald's The Plague & I.

Tatting: These are built long with an even thickness for their entire length, including at the eye, to enable thread to be pulled through the double stitches used in tatting.