Tatting
Tatting was important to M. Marie Grauer. Born June 15, 1895, in Marysville, Grauer worked as a schoolteacher at Marysville High School, taught piano lessons, and later worked as a secretary.
She created a pattern book with samples and instructions on tatting. She wore a small tatted bag on her wrist to hold the ball of thread while she worked with the tatting shuttle. Grauer applied tatting to many of the items in her home including bedding and towels. Grauer died May 17, 1991, in Marysville. Her family donated many of her tatting supplies to the Kansas Historical Society.
The art of tatting can be tracked to ancient Egypt and China. Prevalent during the 18th century in Europe, immigrants later brought the art to America where it became popular. is a very old art. It involves a process of making lace by looping and knotting a single strand of thread on a small shuttle. It has been called "beggars lace" because it can be made from scraps of almost any smooth thread.
These pages are from Grauer's pattern book:
10
Two samples of clover leaf.
1 Each wheel of clover
leaf is 3 ds p 4 ds p 4 ds p 3 ds
2 Two wheels are
3 ds p 3 ds p 3ds p 3 ds
Middle wheel is 3 ds p 3 ds p 2 ds p 2 ds p 3 ds p 3 ds
Grape design
1 10 ds p 10 ds p 10 ds
2 wheel 3 ds p 3 ds p 3 ds
p 3 ds p 3ds p 3ss
chain 6 ds p 6 ds
1 Large wheel 7 p with
2 ds between
2 Three small 2 ds p 2 ds p
2 ds
con’t from previous page
wheel same as 3 chain 5. wheel same as 3 chain 5 wheel same as 3 chains same as 2 and then wheel as 1
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1 5 ds p 5 ds p 5 ds p 5 ds
2 6 ds p 6 ds p 6 ds p 6 ds
3 Same as 1
4 Chain 6 ds p 2 ds
5 4 ds p 4 ds p 4 ds
6 2 ds p 3 ds
This pattern rounds for doily
1. Wheel 4 ds p 4 ds p 4 ds p 4ds
2 Wheel 2 ds p 2 ds p 2 ds p 2ds
3 4 ds p 2 sp 2 ds p 2 ds p
2ds p 2 ds p 2 ds p 2ds p
2ds p 2ds p 4 ds.
If two thread is preferred between wheels chain 4 ds.
1. Wheel 3 ds p 3 ds p 3 ds p 3 ds
2. Chain 3 ds p s p 3ds
p 4 ds
3. Wheel 6 ds p 2 ds p 6 ds
4. Chain 4 stitches
5. Clover leaf
1 + 3 6 ds p 3 ds p 6 ds
2 6 ds p 3 ds p s p s p
3 ds p 6ds
1 Wheel 2 ds (9 p one ds between) 2 ds
2 Chain 5 ds p 8 ds p 8 ds p 5 ds
3 5 ds–
Entry: Tatting
Author: Kansas Historical Society
Author information: The Kansas Historical Society is a state agency charged with actively safeguarding and sharing the state's history.
Date Created: March 2016
Date Modified: October 2016
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