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Sent: Monday, August 9, 2010 11:15:50 AM
Subject: [lace] Re: knotting and tatting?
For those that want to know more, from what my sources tell me, the first
recorded statement of "tatting" is in 1834. And with most handiwork you can
assume that it had a beginning
It so happens I have just been reading a book on "Tatting: Technique and
History" by Elgiva Nicholls (a Dover reprint of a book first published in
1962). In the historical introduction she describes two portraits very
similar to the one Yuko saw:
"It has been said that the employment of the shu
For those that want to know more, from what my sources tell me, the first
recorded statement of "tatting" is in 1834. And with most handiwork you can
assume that it had a beginning of many years before that with teachings and
word of mouth.
If you want detailed research on the history and recorde
