On Sep 2, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Julie Tamura wrote:
Thank you all for your answers. You reinforced what I thought I
knew/remembered...it's out of our period. I've saved your messages
and will
used when challenged again <G>
It sounds to me as though several stories got confused together and
came out as one <g>. Chaucer is often cited (incorrectly, I think) as
an early source for "blackwork"; needle tatting does seem to appear
at least as early as shuttle tatting if not earlier (but not in
Chaucer ;) and as others have explained, fishing nets do use knots.
Put 'em all together and you get what you heard <g>. A lot of word-of-
mouth "history" seems to travel this way.
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