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Tatting

noun

Needlework consisting of handmade lace made by looping and knotting a single thread on a small shuttle.

The act or art of making handmade lace. Synonym: lace making.

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"Tatting" Quotes from Famous Books

... the regiment halted each man was forced to kneel and let a comrade take off or put on his knapsack. And then the march through the streets—every man known to scores in the throng! The brisk, high-stepping drum corps rat-a-tatting at intervals; then tempests of cheers, flashing banners and patriotic symbols at every window; tears, laughter, humorous cries, jokes, sobbing outbreaks. The whole city was in march as the Caribees reached the thronged main thoroughfare. Ready hands ...

— The Iron Game - A Tale of the War • Henry Francis Keenan

... they were when I was a girl. You twins don't know how to knit, or to make tatting, or to embroider. It seems a shame—for you'll never have any tidies for your chairs in ...

— The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna - or, The Crew That Won • Gertrude W. Morrison

... first place, I had no business to read those magazines that my governess told me not to, even if she did have so little sense that her brain must have been made of tatting work originally, which she was always doing by the yard. And while the explanation of what an evil it is to get millions and millions of dollars together when the poor have so little, and that no man who has a human heart in his breast would want to ...

— Phyllis • Maria Thompson Daviess

... the bottom of the hill, which rises behind it as a fine background. Steps of rock lead up the stony slope from the water's edge to the houses. In every yard mattings are laid, upon which little white fish are drying. As they walk through the streets or stand talking together, the men are ever tatting at nets; long lines of net-cord are reeled out for many yards along the wayside; hundreds of feet of seines are hung out in the sun to dry. The houses, with their pretty red tiling, are irregularly clustered along narrow ...

— In Indian Mexico (1908) • Frederick Starr

Words linked to "Tatting" : lace making, needlework, tat, needlecraft, handicraft