THE NETTING NEEDLE |
![]() "To obviate the difficulties above mentioned I have substituted a netting needle [emphasis mine] for the shuttle which has enabled me to attach and shape the pattern while working: and where the loops are too small to admit of the netting needle passing through, I have given directions for using a sewing needle [emphasis mine] instead.This had nothing to do with the simulated and true tatting produced by various modern Needle Tatting techniques. Instead, it produced tatting using a netting and/or sewing needle (Riego) to shuttle the thread through picots. True tatting requires the use of the 'turned' half hitch. This can be accomplished by tatting with the hands, a shuttle, or, as described above, a sewing or netting needle. The Needle Tatting techniques that produce true tatted rings 'turn' the half hitches onto a 'core' needle before pulling the core thread through; this same technique can be done with a shuttle (clumsily) by 'turning' half hitches in the core thread and passing the shuttle through them. An early simulated tatting technique was the chain made of the 'unturned' half hitch. This technique of ring hitches made on a carrier borrowed from macramé headers and simulates the tatting knot. The chain can, and often is, made using the tatting knot. The point about chains is moot since, if they are done with two shuttles, whether a knot is turned or not depends on which shuttle was used - the defining characteristic of tatting is held in the ring made with the tatting knot. Crochet Tatting, Morin Needle Tatting, and Takashima HookTatting all produce a simulated tatting product that does not use the tatting knot; i.e., the 'turned half hitch'. Each can thus be distinguished on close examination from true tatting. Shuttle Tatting (whether with shuttle, netting needle, sewing needle or by hand) and Rozelle Needle Tatting produce true tatting; though Rozelle Needle Tatting is distinguishable by the looseness of the work which also makes the picots susceptible to stretching. |
CROCHET TATTING |
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BUFF TATTING NEEDLE |
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ROZELLE NEEDLE TATTING |
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MASON-CALPINI TATTING NEEDLES |
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MORIN JIFFY TATTING NEEDLES |
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TAKASHIMA TATTING HOOKS |
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Works Cited |
Buff, Eleanor A. Tatting-Needle. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent Office. Patent No. 1,116,792. Nov. 10, 1914.
Caulfeild, Sophia Frances Anne, and Saward, Blanche C. The Dictionary of Needlework: An Encyclopedia of Artistic, Plain, and Fancy Needlework. 2nd ed. 6 vols. 1887. London: A. W. Cowan. Rpt. 2 vols. [as Encyclopedia of Victorian Needlework: Dictionary of Needlework.] New York: Dover Publications; Ontario: General Publishing Co.; U.K: Constable and Co. Ltd. 1972: 116 Foster, Barbara Needle Tatting. 2 vols. Paxton, Il: Handy Hands, Inc. 1990, rev. 1991, rev. 1992, rpt. 1993, July 1994, Dec. 1994, 1995. Mason, Mary T. and Calpini, Adolph M. Method of Tatting. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent Office. Patent No. 1,490,176. Apr. 15, 1924. Morin, Edward A. Needle for Tatting. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent Office. Patent No. 4,168,792. Sep. 25, 1979. Morin, Selma and Edward. Jiffy Needle Tatting: A to Z. Kansas City, MO: KC Publishing, Inc. 1992. --- Jiffy Needle Tatting: Quick & Easy. Kansas City, MO: KC Publishing, Inc. 1992. Riego de la Branchardière, Eléonore. The Tatting Book. London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 1850. Rozelle, M. E. "Needle Tatting." Modern Priscilla April 1917: 15. Takashima, Toshiko. Takashima Tatting: Text 1. Ashiya, Japan: Privately printed. May 20, 1990 Takashima, Toshiko. Takashima Tatting: Text 2. Ashiya, Japan: Privately printed. Sep. 20, 1992, rpt. July 31, 1998 |