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Title: Mary Sue's Contemporary Tatting
Author/Designer: Mary Sue Kuhn
Format/Publication Date: COMB: April 1973
Publisher: Communi-KAY, West Des Moines, Iowa
Page Count: 14
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: None;
SUMMARY- In her introduction, she lets us know that she owned and operated a hand craft shop, and learned to tat from her Gran in order to fill orders for stationery decorated with tatting. She gives a very detailed lesson in basic tatting using the slip-and-slide method(faster than traditional), then a couple pages of suggested stationery decorations, a couple of decorated place cards and mini-art. On the inside of the back cover, she gives a short history of tatting as she knew it.
I didn't run across this first book of hers until 2021(18 years after beginning this bibliography). I don't know how many she had printed, but I'm guessing it's beyond rare now. I'm going to try and find her family and ask permission to make a digital copy of this book available to everyone.