In a message dated 07/16/2008 11:43:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
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<< Now, I take issue with the claim that tatting is related to macrame.  
Tatting is a single thread, or two at most, worked in loops.  Macrame is many 
threads, each following its own path and interacting in many ways with its 
neighbors.  Very different! >>

I agree.  But there is one similarity which I have noticed which perhaps 
explains the comparison, inappropriate as it may be.  That is that the lark's 
head 
knot usually used to begin macrame looks quite similar to the knot worked 
over the base thread in tatting.

Vicki in hot & steamy Maryland

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