Ccorazone

It is a shuttle used for tatting. There should be a bobbin in the center to wrap the thread around.

Ccorazone

It does not go on a machine. You hold it in you hand and make a series of loops and knots to create your design. It is very delicate and tedious work.

DACO48

Yes indeed a tatting shuttle. I have some tatting that belonged to my great-grandmother. My grandma gave it to me and I carried it in my wedding bouquet 44 years ago next week. Tatting is another one of those hand crafted skills that has amost disappeared as quilting did before its resurgnence.

at the farm

Yes, it is a tatting shuttle. My husbands Great Aunt used to make wonderful doilies with it.

LindaR

its a hand tatting shuttle...used to watch my Aunt use one...

coopah

It is definitely a tatting shuttle. My mom still uses hers now and then.

onthelake

It is for tatting...I think it's called a shuttle. My mother used to make tatting for the edges of pillowcases, baby clothes, etc. Of the four girls, only one learned to tat. That picture brought back so many memories of my mother sitting in her rocking chair with her tatting. Thanks for the memories.

Sorry, I should have read all the posts first.

jimsjunque

Nope; It's not a pulley; nor used on any machine. It is as others have menthioned--- a tatting shuttle!

unicorn53

It's a tatting shuttle - I remember watching my grandmother tat when I was growing up

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