[elky] Re: Non Elky Tatting was Re: Re: Christmas Walk, Geneva, IL - Live Mannequin

  • From: "Rick Draganowski" <dragan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 09:54:50 -0800

Here is the Alpine Butterfly Mary.

http://www.animatedknots.com/alpinebutterfly/index.php?Categ=climbing&LogoImage=LogoGrog.jpg&Website=www.animatedknots.com

Rick Draganowski
(Soli Deo Gloria)

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Mary McCarthy 
  To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 9:42 AM
  Subject: [elky] Re: Non Elky Tatting was Re: Re: Christmas Walk, Geneva, IL - 
Live Mannequin


  Thanks for the interest, glad tatting could help.   And the shuttle isn't 
absolutely necessary - we call the end of the thread, the 'itty bitty tatting 
shuttle'.  I am continually amazed at how someone can take a piece of string, 
create infinite designs with just a ring and a chain and manipulate them in 
ways to enable the most complicated of techniques.  

  Unfortunately the threads on Egyptian mummies rotted away but it is believed 
they tatted, too.  Something held their beads together.   It's like pinstriping 
- they pinstriped their chariots.   Our history is hazy because patterns 
weren't published until around the civil war and a lot has been thrown away 
because 'no one does that anymore'.  

  I'll have to look up that Alpine Butterfly knot.  

  wasn't me on the viola.  Sorry, wish I'd thought of it for you.  
  Someone sure was nice. 

  Mary

    This is weird. I did a little study on tatting since I know nothing. 
Interesting and beautiful that with just your hands and a shuttle you can make 
lace. The tatting study led to knots since that is the basis. Then the knots 
led me to discover the noble Alpine Butterfly knot which I wish I knew many 
times in the past in fishing and sailing and climbing and construction.

    So Tatting helped my fishing.

    Thanks Mary.

    Rick Draganowski
    (Soli Deo Gloria)

    p.s. Some think that tatting was started long ago by the people who made 
fishnets. So fishing helped Tatting.

    p.p.s. Someone signed me up to the Yahoo Viola group. Did anyone here do 
it? I like it and downloaded a contemporary Viola solo sheet music from Italy 
this morning. Nice people.



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