Tatting

Carol In WI spun a FINE 'yarn':

Carol In WI. . .

Carol, I've tatted for YEARS, both shuttle and needle. I believe, if memory serves, that DARLENE tats too as does Christine in Kent. HTH, Noreen

My husband does, do you have a problem?

Mary

There are many groups devoted to tatting on the internet and there are several hundreds of tatters online worldwide. I am sure you'll find something if you do a search online. Dantatter

I think the recent Piecework magazine has an article on tatting. I never learned it - when I asked my great aunt, she said "you don't want to learn this"!

=Tamar

I have also heard this is very difficult to learn, and might not be worth the effort.

I do have some [quite old ] Shuttles, but i was too lazy to master it well .. mirjam

As I understand it, the individual knots are very simple, but the trick is to make them precisely sized and placed. Designs are built up and can be quite pretty, but overly simple work seems to have given it a bad name, to the point that the word "tatty" became a description of something old, worn out, and probably stained, and "tat" became a noun meaning "miscellaneous useless junk". All of which is rather sad, because good tatting is beautiful, delicate, and lacy. Years ago I knew a computer programmer who did tatting while waiting for test programs to run.

=Tamar

Plellar spun a FINE 'yarn':

+++ In article , ++ ++   wrote: ++ >++ >> Anyone do it?  Carol In WI ++ ++ >There are many groups devoted to tatting on the internet and there are ++ >several hundreds of tatters online worldwide. ++ >I am sure you'll find something if you do a search online. ++ >Dantatter ++ ++ I think the recent Piecework magazine has an article on tatting. ++ I never learned it - when I asked my great aunt, she said "you don't ++ want to learn this"! ++ ++ =Tamar + + +I have also heard this is very difficult to learn, and might not be +worth the effort.

Plellar. . .

I'm self-taught, and it was Easy! jm2c, Noreen

snipped-for-privacy@actcom.co.il spun a FINE 'yarn':

+++ In article , ++ ++   wrote: ++ >++ >> Anyone do it?  Carol In WI ++ ++ >There are many groups devoted to tatting on the internet and there are ++ >several hundreds of tatters online worldwide. ++ >I am sure you'll find something if you do a search online. ++ >Dantatter ++ ++ I think the recent Piecework magazine has an article on tatting. ++ I never learned it - when I asked my great aunt, she said "you don't ++ want to learn this"! ++ ++ =Tamar + +I do have some [quite old ] Shuttles, but i was too lazy to master it +well .. +mirjam

snipped-for-privacy@actcom.co.il. . .

Could I BUY your old shuttles? Love, Noreen