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making lace with knots tight enough to outlive the hands that tied them.
means Tatting is a technique for making durable handmade lace by looping and knotting thread around a small shuttle to form rings and chains.
from The word surfaced in English in the early 19th century, but its deeper root is murky — etymologists honestly shrug. It is often linked to 'tat,' an old dialect word for rough or shabby work, though the connection is unproven; the craft and its name seem to have grown up together in the parlors and sewing baskets of the period.
- core tool
- a tiny shuttle slung with thread, nothing more
- the trick
- every loop is a knot, locked permanently
- origin
- likely descended from sailors' and fishermen's knotwork
- durability
- tatted lace survives washing that destroys other lace
- comeback
- booming again among modern fiber rebels
irish lace tatting — traditional handmade lace technique using shuttles or needles, documented in ireland since the 1800s
shuttle tatting — specific tatting method using two shuttles to create knots, developed as main technique by victorian era craftspeople