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What (who) is tatting - definition

CRAFT OF MAKING LACE WITH LOOPS AND KNOTS USING A SMALL SHUTTLE

Knotted work; Frivolite in San Ignacio; Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Frivolite in San Ignacio

tatting

¦ noun

1. a kind of knotted lace made by hand with a small shuttle.

2. the process of making such lace.

Origin

C19: of unknown origin.

Tatting

·noun A kind of lace made from common sewing thread, with a peculiar stitch.

Tatter

·noun One who makes tatting.

II. Tatter ·noun A rag, or a part torn and hanging;

- chiefly used in the plural.

III. Tatter ·vt To rend or tear into rags;

- used chiefly in the past participle as an Adjective.

Wikipedia

Tatting

Tatting is a technique for handcrafting a particularly durable lace from a series of knots and loops. Tatting can be used to make lace edging as well as doilies, collars, accessories such as earrings and necklaces, and other decorative pieces. The lace is formed by a pattern of rings and chains formed from a series of cow hitch or half-hitch knots, called double stitches, over a core thread. Gaps can be left between the stitches to form picots, which are used for practical construction as well as decorative effect.

In German, tatting is usually known by the Italian-derived word Occhi or as Schiffchenarbeit, which means "work of the little boat", referring to the boat-shaped shuttle; in Italian, tatting is called chiacchierino, which means "chatty".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatting

Examples of use of tatting

1. They might also hold her wallpapering brush and scissors, her upholstering or chair–caning implements, or her current knitting, crocheting, or tatting project, ready to be pulled out and worked on in any spare moment.

2. Instead, they had to fill their hours with useless, pointless, unproductive, repetitive work: beadwork, shellwork, tatting, making cut–paper patterns and silhouettes, japanning, plus what George Eliot called "a little ladylike tinkling and smearing". For the affluent, housework used to be done by servants.