Some of you have mentioned "The Borrowers". A couple of weeks ago I found the Penguin "The Complete borrowers" on sale for 20 pence, withdrawn from stock but in first class condition. i bought it and decided to read it right through rather than just the one I hadn't read before - "The Borrowers avenged".
it's years and years and years (i.e. pre lace days) since I read the books and in "The Borrowers afield" I found a passing reference to tatting. They are living in the boot and Pod wants to make a fishing net out of horse hair. "But Pod, though good at knots, had quite a bit of trouble with the horse-hair: the long tail strands were springy and would slide from the eye of the needle." ...... "....Homily came to Pod's rescue and, working together, they evolved a close mesh on the spider-web principle, based on Homily's knowledge of tatting." Pages 197 and 198 of "The Complete Borrowers" Penguin, rev. ed. 1994 Presumably/possible Mary Norton was a needle tatter. Patricia in Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
