Ebay (UK) has now altered their listings for craft items and has included a
lacemaking category
http://home.listings.ebay.co.uk/Lacemaking_W0QQfromZR12QQsacategoryZ57201QQsocmdZListingItemList
This page lists all the lace bobbins etc but also some of the tat that hardly
qualifies as
In a message dated 10/13/04 9:27:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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Ebay (UK) has now altered their listings for craft items and has included a
lacemaking category
http://home.listings.ebay.co.uk/Lacemaking_W0QQfromZR12QQsacategoryZ57201QQso
cmdZListingItemList
This
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 10/13/04 9:27:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ebay (UK) has now altered their listings for craft items and has included a
lacemaking category
http://home.listings.ebay.co.uk/Lacemaking_W0QQfromZR12QQsacategoryZ57201QQso
Jeri and others
I suspect that Rikki was not intending to say anything at all about
tatting - and not saying that tatting does not qualify as lacemaking, but
rather was using an English slang word . It was an unfortunate choice in the
context of the lace list :)
Tat or tut (as I have heard
In a message dated 10/13/2004 7:33:15 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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Tatters, you know what you are making, and many of us will continue to call
it lace!
Jeri Ames in Maine USA
Lace Embroidery Resource Center
Well said! If I recall the publication by Mdme. Riego showed
Help! I lost a vital word in that last paragraph! It should, of course, have
read:
. I'm sure Rikki was NOT intending to offend tatters
Sorry
Sue Babbs
(an Englishwoman living in America)
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Ebay (UK) has now altered their listings for craft items and has
included a lacemaking category
http://home.listings.ebay.co.uk/Lacemaking_W0QQfromZR12QQsacategoryZ57201QQs
ocmdZListingItemList
This page lists all the lace bobbins etc but also some of the tat that
hardly qualifies as
Yet another example of two nations divided by a common language.
Oxford Dictionary definitions:
tat - 1 n. colloq. tatty things; rubbish, junk. (back formation from tatty).
tat - 2 v. do, or make by, tatting (origin unknown)
tatting n. 1. a kind of handmade knotted lace used for trimming etc.
This page lists all the lace bobbins etc but also some of the tat that hardly
qualifies as 'lacemaking'
Regards
Rikki
It's obvious from the wording that Rikki mean the tat as per dictionary
definition of tat - 1 n. colloq. tatty things; rubbish, junk. (back formation from
tatty)
However,
Jeri, and other Tatters on the list - please do not become offended by this
comment about tat.in England, tat (as distinct from tatting!) means
rubbish or scruffy articles. What this posting was referring to is all the
other rubbishy bits and pieces which are advertised on e-bay as being
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