I confess I am not a tatter - have never even fallen foul of the tatting
lady at demonstrations - but I would have called this a French knitting tool
not a tatting instrument.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3252879443category=114
is it for French knitting and what is that
At 01:21 PM 11/14/2003 -, you wrote:
I confess I am not a tatter - have never even fallen foul of the tatting
lady at demonstrations - but I would have called this a French knitting tool
not a tatting instrument.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=3252879443category=114
is
We called it Corking when I was young..
Joan
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From: alice howell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [lace-chat] tatting - on ebay
At 01:21 PM 11/14/2003 -, you wrote:
I confess I am not a tatter - have
Well, I agree that it is for French knitting, but I think the spring was
probably accidentally caught up in the hole down the middle of the cotton
reel and now the seller is assuming its part of the French knitting gadget!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- Carole Lassak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, Alice, - what in Britain and Australia, at least, is called French
knitting! Don't ask me why - just one of those things we accepted and knew
from a very early age!!
Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
--- alice howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 01:21 PM 11/14/2003 -,
you wrote:
I