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Tatting

noun
1.
Needlework consisting of handmade lace made by looping and knotting a single thread on a small shuttle.
2.
The act or art of making handmade lace.  Synonym: lace making.





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"Tatting" Quotes from Famous Books



... and made the fire there. Toasted bread and trimmed lamps. Rang the breakfast bell at seven. After breakfast, made my bed, and 'put up' the room. Then I came down to the Atheneum and looked over my comet computations till noon. Before dinner I did some tatting, and made seven button-holes for K. I dressed and then dined. Came back again to the Atheneum at 1.30, and looked over another set of computations, which took me until four o'clock. I was pretty tired by that time, and rested by reading 'Cosmos.' Lizzie E. came in, and I gossiped ...
— Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals • Maria Mitchell


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


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