In message <[email protected]>, Clay Blackwell
<[email protected]> writes
We've all encountered people who
insist that what we're doing is tatting! For all we know, there was a
long-held belief in some foreign countries that the terms "tatting" and
"bobbin lace" are synonymous.
....
That has led to the confusion in the English Language,
which differentiates the two.
But don't forget that off-cuts of machine made lace (which has been
around since the early 19th century) were referred to as "tattings"
during the 20th century - I think this has more to do with the confusion
as anything, as the bobbin lace we make at least results in a product
that looks like a tatting.
The term would have been used by the great grandmothers and grandmothers
(and even mothers) of today's "tatting ladies" and so they think they
are sure they know what we are doing.
Talking of machine lace, the start of Friday night's episode of "Great
British Railway Journeys" on BBC2 featured Nottingham's machine lace
history - and Michael Portillo visited one of the lace factories at
Langley Mill. It is available on the BBC iplayer thingy for anyone in
the UK. (Being on at 6.30pm, I frequently miss bits so catch up the
following day - on Friday, I managed to watch it on TV for a change -so
trains and lace, it quite made my evening! Also, Friday evening he ended
up in Melton Mowbray, where Dora Northern of lace turkey fame lives....
(he missed out on that one, featured the cheese and pies instead -
though probably because our Dora wasn't around in Bradshaw's day :-) ).
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Jane Partridge
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