<< 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
Bingo! The Tatting stitch, which Tatters call a double stitch, is a
pair of half hitches, which are knots. Tatting is a knotted
lace. So Tatting is more than faintly related to Macrame, which can
also produce lacelike fabrics. Half of a double stitch is also
exactly the same as a buttonhole stitch and some Tatting stitch
formations use only one half of a double stitch repeated, so there is
a kinship with needle laces.
Knotting, which preceded Tatting, is different in that Knotting was
produced with overhand knots: single, double, multiple overhand
wraps; and Tatting instead uses half hitches which have more
flexibility in the methods that can induce the thread to behave as desired.
The development of Tatting is definitely an 1800s process. While
individuals may have conceived of the basics of Tatting at different
times and different places, the flowering of Tatting was
Victorian. Mlle. Branchardiere, we salute you ( her works are
available in the Digital Archive at weaving.net). Since the
expression of Tatting is so relatively recent, there is a record of
the development process.
Patty (sniffling in misery from the smoke contaminated air in
California, can't see the hills that form the Silicon Valley!)
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