It's a reprint of a vintage tatting booklet; the original cover looked like this.
I do wish some of those vintage designers hadn't been so modest about publishing their names. Unfortunately no publication date is given, either. If anyone has the original and/ or knows when it was published, I'd love to know. I suppose we'll never know the author.
The booklet includes a variety of edgings and corners, tableware, medallions, and cord pulls. The cord pulls have the tatting attached to a bone ring (and back then it was real bone), only instead of making double stitches over the ring as we do today, the directions call for covering the ring in single crochet.
Here are a few interesting pictures.
I think this is a book I will have lots of fun looking at, even if I never tat anything from it.
I have the original booklet. At least I think I do, the cover is the same. Mine says it was published (or copyrighted) in 1944 by The Canadian Spool Cotton Company. I have seen many of the patterns in other books.
ReplyDeleteJust in time I arrested the Dr. Strangelove Tatting Book Finger from pushing the key that said, "buy!"
ReplyDeleteIt looks good - and I have often wondered about it as I have seen the original on eBay. I will wait and see if you tat anything from this one!
Ah, but self-discipline is good!
Fox : ))
Nice find!
ReplyDeleteCool! I wonder if I have that one? Time to go through my books again!
ReplyDeleteI have the original as well - it says 10 Cents on the cover. Ah, those were the days! :) I didn't know the Spool Cotton Company was from Canada - mine says Printed in the USA inside.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your tatting! (And your book - I understand how it is to get sucked into a good read.)
Emily