Tatting, an Old-World Art
Aug 10th, 2012 | By Esther
On the altar of my church lies a tatted coverlet adorned with hundreds of small, intricate knots and rings. I’m always fascinated with this coverlet, and I’ll confess to having heard less than all of a sermon on more than one occasion because I was distracted by the beauty of this lace. Tatting is a needlecraft made by tying a series of knots into rings through the use of a shuttle and then connecting those rings to make elaborate designs. The threads used in tatting are coarser than those used in traditional lace making, giving
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