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#11
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: North Dakota
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It doesn't go in a machine. You hold it in your hands and use it to make lace for pillowcases, lace edgings for collars like Grndma used to wear. It is very pretty work.
#16
it is a fairly modern tatting shuttle. used to make lace, doilies or whatever else you would knit or crochet. it one uses it to make series of tiny knots all joined together. i have found some at estate auction/sales from the fifties that are of that old plastic that many household emplements were made of after WWII. if you look online, you can find many tatted examples. and even tutorials. an old needle work style that is becoming popular again.
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