I thought I'd mentioned this a few weeks ago - I found, in a book about the machine lace industry in Nottingham, a definition of tatting which explains perfectly the many misconceptions about bobbin lace. Apparently, tatting in machine lace terminology means a geometric lace (ie of bobbin lace appearance, not tatting done with a shuttle). Hence the number of ladies of a certain generation who insist that bobbin lace is tatting - though they are more than likely thinking of the correct terminology they saw applied to machine made lace in shops in their youth, than distinguishing between terms for machine and hand made lace.
Unless you are certain that the piece on ebay is hand made (I haven't looked at it), it could, truthfully, be termed as tatting if it is a machine version of, eg, torchon! -- Jane Partridge -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.11 - Release Date: 16/05/2005 - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
