tatting

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He consulted his list and called out, “In third place, Novice Tatting, Miss Calpurnia Virginia Tate!”

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

“Never mind. Tatting was never my strong suit, either.”

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

The needlework called Tatting in England, Frivolité in French, and Frivolitäten in German, is a work which seems, from all accounts, to have been in favour several generations ago.

From Beeton's Book of Needlework by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

The smaller circles must be fastened after every other treble stitch; the larger and smaller circles must be fastened above one another at the place of the 1st purl. 49--Linen Collar trimmed with Tatting.

From Beeton's Book of Needlework by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)

"Tatting", by Julian J. Crump, is a fluent and graceful colloquial sketch.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)