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This cover image is from the Antique Pattern Library
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Round D'oyley or Head-dress
- Oeillet Edging
- Pearl Edging
- Gymp Edging
- Corfu Lace Antimacassar
- Greek Lace Trimming
- Vandyke Lappet
- Parisian Gymp Trimming
- Simple Vandyke Edging
- Instructions and Terms:
Knotting(cluny?),
A Wheel,
Straight Thread(chains)
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Title: The Complete Tatting Book
Author/Designer: Madlle Riego de la Branchardiere
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1866
Publisher: (1866)Simkin, Marshall, and Co., London, England,
(2001)Georgia Seitz, Anchorage, AK
Page Count: 32
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 4 3/4" x 6"
ISBN: None
SUMMARY- Georgia Seitz, one of the great champions of tatting, provided a comb-bound black-and-white compilation of the Riego tatting books, and kept it available for over a decade. This compilation came to me through a retired tatter who was looking for an appreciative home for a significant library of tatting books. I am so grateful for her contributions to the bibliography project, and for the support this project has received from so many unexpected sources. Thank you all. I could not have compiled so extensive a catalog so quickly without that help.
The patterns are simple and somewhat primitive, but distinctly modern tatting, with modern joins holding the disparate rings together. There is a remarkably clear description for making the modern chain on page 30. There is a description of what Mdlle Riego calls knotting on page 29 and 30 that looks and sounds a lot like cluny leaves to me.
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