Winter 1951:Vol. IV(4), Issue #4
Page Count: 8
Notes: A mention on the back cover says this issue came with a leaflet, so my issue is missing this...

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• FEATURES
  • HINT:
    Tatting On Lace
          by Mrs JJ Dillon
  • STORY:
    Tatter With Tiny Threads- Helen Pulaski
          by Dorothy Tooker
  • NOTICE:
    Mrs Louise Concistre asked for her address to be published in this issue(This is the woman who famously tatted "The Last Supper", among other notable works of art and was featured in an article in McCall's Needlework & Crafts)
  • PATTERNS:
    Matching Edgings and Medallions- Pinwheel, Triangular, Plain Set
          by Ruth Elliott Wood
    Tatting On Lace- Edging for Lace Handkerchief
          by Mrs JJ Dillon
• DEPARTMENTS
  • EDITORIAL:
    List of My Personal Tatting Library
          by Dorothy Tooker
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Gift Directory

Magazine Title: SHUTTLE ART: The Magazine for Tatters
Editor(s): Dorothy Tooker, Ruth Elliott Wood
Publication Frequency: Quarterly
Began Publication: Spring 1948
Ended Publication: Unknown*
Published by: Dorothy Tooker, West Hartford, CT
Average Page Count: 8
Magazine Dimensions(ht. x w.): 8 1/2" x 5 1/2"
ISSN: None

NOTE: All cover images this page were scanned from my private collection.

SUMMARY: First, Thank you Marti Jones for donating issues of this newsletter to the Craft Bibliography Project! I would never have known how cool a periodical I had missed. If anyone has further issues, please get in touch!

The cover may be plain, but the information inside is tantalizing. It is a mix of news, reviews, patterns, source ads, and helpful hints - and that's just in the two issues I have. Who knows what's in the rest! She does print pictures of the samples for the patterns provided, but not for anything else. But Dorothy Tooker has a way with words, and wasn't shy in sharing opinions. My earliest issue, she printed a letter from a woman who cancelled her subscription because of an editorial published in an earlier issue. Dorothy didn't argue with the letter or try to defend herself - she just published the letter and moved on. I admire that very much. There are so many little tantalizing bits in each issue, when you expect very little. I can't wait to find more of this one!

An Australian friend sent me three more of the issues - and all three had information in them that I got very excited about. Dorothy Tooker was not only penpal friends with Mrs Louise Concistre, but with Norma Benporath as well. She had contributions from at least two of what I think of as the Tower Press gang - Mrs Elizabeth Randall and Mrs Ila Frost - so does Myrtle Hamilton make an appearance at some point? I can't wait to find out! Dorothy Tooker also had ties to "Woman's Day" magazine, both as a contributing tatting designer, and as an insider able to give attribution to an otherwise unattributed design in "Woman's Day" pages. We now know she had an amazing tatting book and shuttle collection - and a mystery as to what happened to it.



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"SHUTTLE ART" CATALOG OF ISSUES

1951: 4 ISSUES

SPRING 1951: Volume IV, Issue #1
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SUMMER 1951: Volume IV, Issue #2
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Winter 1951: Volume IV, Issue #4
Page Count: 8
Notes: A mention on the back cover says this issue came with a leaflet, so my issue is missing this; Mrs Tooker included a bibliography of her own tatting library...

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• FEATURES
  • HINT:
    Tatting On Lace
          by Mrs JJ Dillon
  • STORY:
    Tatter With Tiny Threads- Helen Pulaski
          by Dorothy Tooker
  • NOTICE:
    Mrs Louise Concistre asked for her address to be published in this issue(This is the woman who famously tatted "The Last Supper", among other notable works of art and was featured in an article in McCall's Needlework & Crafts)
  • PATTERNS:
    Matching Edgings and Medallions- Pinwheel, Triangular, Plain Set
          by Ruth Elliott Wood
    Tatting On Lace- Edging for Lace Handkerchief
          by Mrs JJ Dillon
• DEPARTMENTS
  • EDITORIAL:
    List of My Personal Tatting Library
          by Dorothy Tooker
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Gift Directory

1952: 4 ISSUES

SPRING 1952: Volume V, Issue #1
Page Count: 12
NOTES: There was evidently a Pattern-of-the-Month club that got discontinued in this year; One of the letters published in this issue was from Mrs Elizabth Randall - a column writer for Tower Press; She apologizes for the brevity of the issue(almost all of it was taken up with the two reprinted craft articles) and urged everyone to find 5 more subscribers...

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• FEATURES
  • ARTICLE:
    Photocopy of an article to decorate for a Valentine's Day dance - there was an image of a woman in a rickshaw with a ruffled skirt - I'm guessing Dorothy meant her readers to add tatting to the skirt for a decoration?
  • ARTICLE:
    Photocopy of an article for making crepe paper clay jewelry
  • PATTERN:
    3D Flower Earrings(beaded)
          by Miss Edith Fenwick
• DEPARTMENTS
  • Editorial
          by Dorothy Tooker
  • Ads
  • Letters to the Editor

SUMMER/FALL 1952: Volume V, Issue #2
Page Count: 12
NOTES: My current copy of this issue is missing pages 4/5...

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• FEATURES
  • TUTORIAL:
    Beginner's Instructions
          by Dorothy Tooker
  • POEM:
    The Tatting Shuttle
          by Mary Edgerly Ritersdorf
  • PATTERN:
    Hailstone Edging
          by Mrs J.J. Dillon
  • PATTERN:
    Cloverleaf Variation
          by Mrs Stefania Boca
  • PATTERN:
    Tiny Butterfly
  • ARTICLE:
    More "Developing"- try varying designs
          by Marie Norton
  • PATTERN:
    Hens and Chicks Variation
• DEPARTMENTS
  • Editorial
          by Dorothy Tooker
  • Ads
  • Letters to the Editor

The Fall issue was combined with the Summer issue for this year.

Winter 1952: Volume V, Issue #4
Page Count: 8
NOTES: Dorothy mentioned she was the designer for the three Tatted-and-Sequin Snowflakes in Woman's Day, December 1952! I love adding tidbits like this to our database; Dorothy also mentioned there were three tatting bulletins available from "Good Housekeeping"- GHN404- Nine Edgings, GHN405- Insertions & Edgings w/ Hairpin Lace combined with Tatting, and GHN487- Luncheon Plate Mat Set; Mrs Elizabeth Randall did a series of tatting articles for Tower Press; "Hodgepodge Magazine" is mentioned on page 7 as "running the Developmental Tatting series" - that mystery is going to drive me mad...

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• FEATURES
  • PATTERNS:
    Garden Path Insertion,
    Wheel Edging or Insertion,
    Garden Path Edging,
    Quick Edging,
    Point Collar
  • TUTORIAL:
    Laundering Tatting
          by Leona Troyan
  • PATTERN:
    Quick Handkerchief Edging
          sent in by Mrs Elizabeth Randall
  • CHRISTMAS QUICKIES:
    Convert favorite medallions into sachets
• DEPARTMENTS
  • EDITORIAL
          by Dorothy Tooker
  • Letters to the Editor

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SUMMER 1953: Volume VI, Issue #2
Page Count: 16
NOTES: Noted as the 5th Anniversary issue! Mrs Ila Frost was also a tatting pattern contributor to Tower Press publications; Dorothy mentions she had an unusual tatted belt design published in the March 1953 issue of "Good Housekeeping"...

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• FEATURES
  • PATTERN:
    (3)Edgings- #1, #2, Gateway(block tatting)
          by Ila Frost
  • BOOK REVIEW(includes 2-page ad):
    "Every Woman's Complete Guide to Tatting"(Norma Benporath)
  • PATTERN:
    The Kohinoor(tiling medallion and edging)
  • CONTEST: Describe your most interesting shuttle
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    Snail and Triangle Edgings
          by Margaret W Parsons
  • PATTERN:
    Tatted Quickies- Trim for Lampshade, Stud Summer Beanie, Jabot Jamboree
          by Dorothy Tooker
  • PATTERN:
    Double Twist Edging
          by Hazel H Hawker
• DEPARTMENTS
  • From Editor's Desk
          by Dorothy Tooker
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Tatting Pen Pals

FALL 1953: Volume VI, Issue #3
Page Count: 12
NOTES: She announces with this issue that publication will be suspended for a year so she can recover her health...

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• FEATURES
  • CONTEST RESULTS(most unusual shuttle):
    1st Prize: Mrs Ruby J Allen
    2nd Prize: Mrs Robert N Sprout
    3rd Prize: Luella Sommers
  • HUMOR:
    Who Got the Edge?
          by Blanche H Hodge(reprinted from Medical Economics(1953))
  • PATTERN:
    3 1/2" Wide Border w/ Corner, Crown Motif
          by Norma Benporath
  • PATTERN:
    Quick Edging
          by Mrs E.A. Holtgrave
• DEPARTMENTS
  • From Editor's Desk
          by Dorothy Tooker
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Tatting Pen Pals
  • More News from Australia(Norma Benporath's book update)

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1954: 4 ISSUES

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1955: 4 ISSUES

SPRING 1955: Volume VIII, Issue #1
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1956: 4 ISSUES

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1957: 4 ISSUES

SPRING 1957: Volume X, Issue #1
Page Count: 12
NOTES: The cover of this issue says it is Volume IX, not X, so was there a year hiatus? Ila Frost, who published tatting patterns in Tower Press publications, was mentioned in this issue...

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• FEATURES
  • ARTICLE:
    Do Tatting and Embroidery Mix?
          by Dorothy Tooker
  • AD:
    Harbinger of Spring(necklace and earring sets)
          from Mrs Ed Severns
  • HELPFUL HINT:
    Turning a Corner
          by Mrs Libbie Coufalik
  • PATTERNS:
    West Hartford Doily
          by Dorothy Tooker
    Alphabet Edges: Olga, Polly
          by Dorothy Tooker
    4" Forget-Me-Not Doily
          by Mrs CE Herr
    EDGING: New?(corner)
          by Mrs Leonard Holloway
    EDGING: Jo-Jo
          by Mrs Marion B Tooker
    New Block Edge
          by Mrs Florence Goff
• DEPARTMENTS
  • EDITORIAL:
    Turner Scott, the silver shuttle-maker, is out of business, Round Robins, Easter Cards from Bethlehem
          by Dorothy Tooker
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Tatting In the News
  • Shuttle Pal List

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