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tatting
[ tat-ing ]
noun
- the act or process of making a kind of knotted lace of cotton or linen thread with a shuttle.
- such lace.
tatting
/ ˈtætɪŋ /
noun
- an intricate type of lace made by looping a thread of cotton or linen by means of a hand shuttle
- the act or work of producing this
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An opportunity given of looking on while one was embroidering, crocheting, or making tatting, and the process was her own.
Not one of the tatting-and-tea kind, but an impressive, bustling old girl, with a double chin.
We submit that a well-trained Preacheress should spend the summer vacation sitting on the hotel piazza busy with her "tatting."
She was exceedingly industrious, and managed to get through quite a lot of tatting during her captivity.
The "tatting" craze was sweeping over the country then, everybody wore tatting and almost everybody made it.
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