Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Tatting - A Ladies' Necktie from 1872

 

From the Ladies' Own Paper, March 30th, 1872, what purports to be a ladies' necktie but I don't see how.  Certainly it would make an unusual bookmark, and not too difficult if you have mastered the art of climbing out of a ring.  Left-click to enlarge.

4 comments:

Sam said...

Wrapped into a loose bow = necktie. Going to try this pattern.

Shay said...

Photos, please! We'd love to see it.

mamafrog said...

Yeah, no...the one thing my grandma tried to teach me and I couldn't pick up, lol. Knitting, crocheting and sewing, no problem. Cooking, a breeze (excepting gravy, to my Southern shame). But tatting was Greek to me and I had clumsy fingers when I tried it. (I played the flute and they weren't.)

Sam said...

Mamafrog - tatting is like learning to drive a stick shift. Practice - my grandma told me to practice 15 min. every day for a month to teach your fingers what to do. This really is a craft one needs a good teacher for. And get used to making lovely knots. After decades, I still do.