Tatting

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  • noun. Handmade lace fashioned by looping and knotting a single strand of heavy-duty thread on a small hand shuttle.
  • noun. The act or art of making such lace.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as tatty.
  • noun. A kind of knotted work, done with cotton or linen thread with a shuttle, reproducing in make and appearance the gimp laces or knotted laces of the sixteenth century, and used for doilies, collars, trimmings, etc.
  • noun. The act of making such lace.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A kind of lace made from common sewing thread, with a peculiar stitch.
  • noun. the shuttle on which the thread used in tatting is wound.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A form of looped and knotted lace needlework made from a single thread.
  • noun. The art of making such lace.
  • verb. Present participle of tat.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the act or art of making handmade lace
  • noun. needlework consisting of handmade lace made by looping and knotting a single thread on a small shuttle
    • Word Usage
    "Fatima and I were not rich in tatting edges, and rejoiced when the conversation took another turn."
    cross-reference
    tat  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    handicraft  needlecraft  needlework  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bulletin  copy  crochet-thread  darning  flower-patterned  
    verb-stem
    tat  
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