Talk:Tatting

=Dumpster Diving=Pedisambiguation page made available.

The external links should be similarly adjusted.

203.97.107.139 00:45, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok, I just took care of this pcrtalk 02:28, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

=Needle Tatting=

This section is biased. The biased part was put in by an anonymous IP address. I'm taking it out.Berkeleysappho 05:55, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Needle tatting is NOT a simulation of shuttle tatting despite opinion. The great Riego needle tatted!  Let's ditch the shuttle snobbery and stick to the facts.Berkeleysappho (talk) 10:10, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Now I know where the nonsense about "real" and "simulated" tatting came from! It is from a badly sourced, heavily biased article by the Tatman. (Also where the misinformation about needle tatting being 20th. century came from.) http://www.tribbler.com/tatman/needle-tatting.html Dan, the Tatman, believes Riego only used the netting needle or sewing needle for joining the rings. Clearly, he didn't look at the pictures which accompany her instructions, which show needle tatting without use of a tatting shuttle. Whoever edited this section didn't even cite the article, but used Dan's references. Sloppy, sloppy!Berkeleysappho (talk) 10:36, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Tatting with needles
Let's not be too dogmatic or 'precious' about the early use of needles in tatting. Needles were used with a similar motion to that of shuttles - tatting 'with' a needle. [The C20th contemporary process of making loops directly onto even-shanked needles - tatting 'on' a needle.] A shuttle is only a convenient implement for storing many metres of thread, so why be preoccupied with the shuttle?

Tatters still use sewing/tapestry needles on occasions to tat. To de Haan-van Beek illustrates tatting 'with' a needle in her book (Eng.trans.) 'New Dimensions in Tatting'. Elgiva Nicholls quotes Mlle Riego regarding using a netting needle when making early picot joins. (Tatting: technique & history, 1984 repub, p. 27). The use of a sewing needle is illustrated on p. 3 of 'Frivolitatenarbeit' by Brigitta Hochfelden.

I know you want chapter and verse for every quote about tatting, but sometimes reading very old patterns will give you clues as well.

Ju-Ju. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.111.223.44 (talk) 04:59, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Charlotte von Mecklenburg
Forget paintings, her tatting work survives and can be viewed in person. Anyone looking at it and still denying what it is needs their eyes testing. So the idea that tatting it is merely a 19th century practice is complete rubbish and the falsity will be amended unless solid evidence disproving the authenticity of Mecklenbug's tatting is produced. I don't expect to see it.