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tatting - 7 dictionary results

tat⋅ting

[tat-ing]
–noun
1. the act or process of making a kind of knotted lace of cotton or linen thread with a shuttle.
2. such lace.

Origin:
1835–45; orig. uncert.

tat

[tat] ,
–verb (used without object), verb (used with object), tat⋅ted, tat⋅ting.
to do, or make by, tatting.

Origin:
1900–05; back formation from tatting
tat 1   (tāt)   
intr. & tr.v.   tat·ted, tat·ting, tats
To do tatting or produce (something) by tatting.

[Probably back-formation from tatting.]
tat·ting   (tāt'ĭng)   
n.  
  1. Handmade lace fashioned by looping and knotting a single strand of heavy-duty thread on a small hand shuttle.
  2. The act or art of making such lace.

[Origin unknown.]

Tatting

Tat"ting\, n. A kind of lace made from common sewing thread, with a peculiar stitch.

Tatting shuttle, the shuttle on which the thread used in tatting is wound.

tatting 
"making of knotted lace," 1842, of uncertain origin. In Fr., frivolité.

tatting

process by which a fabric akin to lace is made of thread with a small hand shuttle and the fingers. It was once a widely practiced craft, known in Italy as occhi and in France as la frivolite. The resulting product appears to be quite fragile but is indeed both strong and durable

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