At 10:58 AM 7/26/03 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Presumably/possible Mary Norton was a needle tatter.
I'm pretty sure I read "The Borrowers" before the advent of needle tatting. More likely, she was vaguely aware that both netting and tatting involved knots. It seems curious for a Borrower-sized person to attempt to use a needle when netting horsehair; it's nearly as stiff as a needle by itself. I'll have to find _The Borrowers Afield_ and read the passage. I'm pretty sure I've read that one, because I recall Pod expressing satisfaction that it was a gentleman's boot, and therefore had been kept well oiled. -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where, according to a guy I overheard on the scanner, it's hot and muggy. (I've been inside sewing.) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED]
