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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Introduction
  • Party-Time Doilies
  • Fairy Ring Doily
  • Edging for Infant's Dress
  • Edging for Bib
  • Baby Cap
  • Frosted Star Doily
  • Filigree Scroll Doily
  • Maypole Dance Doily
  • Pretty Petal Doily
  • Snowflake Tablecloth
  • 15 Edgings
  • Enchanted Doily
  • Fairy-Tale Doily
  • Formal Lunch mat
  • Picture Pretty Collar
  • Slip Top
  • Pointed Yoke
  • Table Settings
  • Monogram Alphabet
  • Bread Tray Doily
  • Saturn Ring Doily
  • Lover's Knot Doily
  • Baby Cap and Booties
  • Lyric Luncheon Set
  • Cross Bookmark
  • Summer Evening Doily
  • Cobweb Doily
  • Doily Trio
  • Honeymoon Breakfast Mat
  • Delicate Doilies
  • Tray Mat Trim
  • Flattering Collar
  • Linen Doily
  • 6 More Edgings
  • Tatting Instructions

Title: Traditional Tatting Patterns
Author/Designer: Rita Weiss
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1986
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc., NY
Page Count: 48
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0-486-25066-0

SUMMARY- You get a lot of bang for your buck with this booklet. There are a lot of lovely patterns here. They were excerpted from these books:

The American Thread Company:
Star Book of Doilies, Book No. 22(19??)
Tatted & Crocheted Designs, No. 30(1944)
New Table Designs, Star Book No. 49(1946)
Crochet and Tatting, Heirloom Edition, Star Book No. 66(1949)
The Spool Cotton Company:
The Tatting Book, Book No. 111(1939)
Tatting, Book No. 229(1946)
Fine Crochet and Tatting, Book No. 259(1949)