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This image was scanned from my private collection
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Equipment for Tatting
- Winding the Thread
- Holding the Shuttle
- Tying the Knots
- Counting Stitches
- First Half of a Double Stitch
- Second Half of a Double Stitch
- Picots
- Helpful Hints
- Tatting with Ball and Shuttle
- Joining Rings and Chains
- Tatting Threads
- How to Stiffen Tatting
- How to Launder Tatting
- Abbreviations for Tatting
- (53)Edgings and Insertions
- (6)Medallions
- Oval Coffee Table Doily
- Oval Vanity set- 3 Piece
- Round Vanity Set- 3 Piece
- Table Setting for Four- 17 Piece
- Table Cloth
- 50-Star Flag
- Bedspread
- Round Center Piece
- Round Vanity Set- 3 Piece
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Title: TATTING: A Historic Lacemaking Method- Fundamentals and Patterns
Author/Designer: Leo Vonn(Wonsavage)
Format/Publication Date: HC:1967(reprinted in 1977)
Publisher: Vantage Press, NY
Language: English
Page Count: 69
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 8 1/4" x 5 1/2"
ISBN: None
SUMMARY- This is a fascinating book for the time it was published. There were only two other books devoted to tatting published in this decade - one in 1960 and one in 1962. It was rare for a man to publish in this field and had not been done before this time except under female pseudonyms, which is likely why he felt he needed to publish under the pseudonym "Vonn". According to the catalog of copyright entries, his true name was Leo Wonsavage. The Social Security Death Index gives his birthdate as March 1, 1908 and his death in September of 1980. I could not find an obituary notice for Mr. Wonsavage, and his bio does not indicate he was married or had children of his own. He had older sisters, who were the ones to teach him tatting when he was a bored seventeen year-old.
The book gives a detailed lesson, but the photos aren't close up enough to show what his model is doing in detail. It looks like he was taught the slip-n-slide method. He doesn't tell us where he got his information on the history of tatting. He gives a huge variety of patterns including one for a state flag that is 73 rings long. He provided pictures of everything but the flag! He uses written notation of the time as you would find in "Workbasket" or Coats & Clark's or American Thread Co's booklets. No diagrams, and the photos are not close-up enough or clear enough to use them to figure out stitches. The Bedspread and tablecloth are very impressive and beautiful, and the 50 star flag is intriguing. I have not tatted up any of the patterns yet to know whether they can be followed.
If you have any more information on this interesting gentleman, please get in touch.
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