![]() They weren’t as prolific or exact, still, many more cards were made. When Doris retired at 93 other ladies volunteered to take her place. Mom was spotted tatting a lace edging for a hanky at an auxiliary meeting and the Brigadier thought tatted cards would be very salable items. For almost 30 years, Mom tatted yards of little flowers and Doris drew, cut and pasted the cards. Much of Mom’s tatting was for note cards she and Doris Ward made for the Catherine Booth Hospital. The hooks are needed to join rings but this can also be done with a separate crochet hook. Some have pics on one end, some little metal hooks and some smooth ends. Some of the newer ones have bobbins making winding the thread much easier. Celluloid, one of the first plastics, was used for shuttles. They have been made of silver, bone, ivory, carved from wood and moulded from plastic. Shuttles come in many forms and materials. It used to be considered a dying art but the internet has reintroduced tatting to many people. It was very popular in the late 1800s when shuttles were almost jewellery. Tatting is la frivolité in French and the shuttle is a navette. Shuttles are small oval objects that thread is wrapped around and they fit easily in your hand. Tatting is handcrafted lace made of knots, rings and chains using a shuttle. She tatted watching TV, waiting in line at the bank, in a doctors’ waiting room and even sat tatting with some fishermen in Portugal, as they fixed their nets. ![]() Mom was never without a shuttle and thread. If she would sit and tat for an hour on a Saturday, with Miss Proudfoot and her sister, she could then bring the funny papers home to her brothers. She learned from her neighbour when she was 10 years old. Visit Originally published Decemupdated January 20, 2023.My mother always tatted. She is the founder and owner of Handy Hands, Inc., a company that has been servicing the tatting world since 1990. See our help center for the step-by-step process on how to access them.īarbara Foster is the author of Learn Needle Tatting, Step by Step (Paxton, Illinois: Handy Hands, 1998), the publisher of numerous books of tatting patterns and distributor of virtually every book in every language related to tatting, the creator of “Lizbeth” threads, the finest line of cotton threads for tatting and all related needlework techniques, and the designer and manufacturer of a wide range of tatting needles and tatting accessories to suit any tatter. Then watch Georgia Seitz’s video Needle Tatting: The Basics and More for expert instruction on this fabulous lace technique that’s anything but old fashioned.Īlso, remember that if you are an active subscriber to PieceWork magazine, you have unlimited access to previous issues, including May/June 2014. Have you tried tatting? Make a resolution to try a new-to-you needlework technique this year! Learn more about the history of needle tatting in Barbara Foster’s article, “Needle Tatting: An Almost Hidden Art,” from PieceWork May/June 2014, our 7th annual Lace issue. ![]() This simplicity of structure lends itself to a universal graphic language for describing patterns.Ī simple motif from PieceWork Fall 2022, worked by Katrina King. When we left her class after five hours, we were needle tatting, making rings, chains, picots, joining, and reading all the shuttle patterns! Although tatting can seem difficult to learn, there is only one stitch, the double stitch. Finally, a close friend and I drove 100 miles to learn this art from a woman, then in her early fifties, who had learned to needle- and shuttle-tat from her mother. My mother, who had never been able to master shuttle tatting, always wanted me to learn to tat. Both contain instructions for needle tatting, but the technique described was actually a description of shuttle tatting, using a needle in place of a shuttle. The Ladies’ Work-Table Book (1843) and The Ladies’ Handbook of Fancy and Ornamental Work (1861). The widespread popularity of shuttle tatting probably stems from those days and explains why it remains the most widely used method. In needle tatting, the stitches are supported first on the needle and then pulled off over the eye onto the thread.ĭuring the nineteenth century, upper-class women who tatted found the activity an opportunity to show off skill, graceful hands, and beautiful shuttles of ivory, bone, shell, or other precious materials, which might be studded with jewels. ![]() In shuttle tatting, the shuttle moves back and forth, over and under a thread to make the stitches on the thread itself. The difference between shuttle and needle tatting lies in the instrument used to make the lace.
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