What is tatted lace?

Tatted lace is made using a shuttle and macrame knots.

Tatted lace is another very common form of lace. There are a lot of people who still practice it. It reached its height of popularity during the 1930s in the United States. Everybody's grandmother tatted. It is done with a shuttle, which is a little eye-shaped device that's only a couple of inches long. You wind the thread onto the shuttle and then it's really just a process that making a little macramé knots. It's knotted lace as opposed to woven laces like the bobbin lace.

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