Tatting
by Lynn Bonnette (Hutchins) Haney
North Carolina

The handmade tatted lace on this page includes edgings, handkerchiefs, collars, bookmarks, Christmas tree decorations, and doilies. Tatting, a delicate (but sturdy), old-fashioned lace, is handmade by a knotting method of lace-making using a shuttle and thread. Click on an image to see a larger version, dimensions, size of thread, and the source of the pattern, if known.

"The message of a lace handkerchief floating to a gentleman's feet is not the same as that of a wad of Kleenex thudding to the floor."
--Miss Manners (Judith Martin)

"If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright."
--Martin Luther (1483-1546)

"The principal miracle of the modern American educational system is that it can turn out citizens who are more poorly educated than they would have been if they had worked individually with no school whatever."
--Art Robinson, Ph.D.

"The strongest sign of the decay of a nation is the feminization of men and the masculinization of women."
--Taylor Caldwell

"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms. . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. . . Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
--Thomas Jefferson

"This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilised nation has full gun registration! Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future!"
--ADOLPH HITLER, 1935

"Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe."
--John Owen (1616-1683)

"Woman apparently is doing everything possible to destroy in herself those very qualifications which render her beautiful, namely, modesty, purity, and chastity. It is a blindness which can only be explained by the fascination of that vanity of which Scriptures speak with such severity."
--Pope Pius XI (1857-1939)

"Much has been written in recent years concerning Thomas Jefferson's reference in 1802 to 'a wall of separation between church and State.' ...Jefferson's figure of speech has received so much attention that one would almost think at times that it is to be found somewhere in our Constitution."
--Supreme Court of New York, 1958 (Baer v. Kolmorgen)

"As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy, and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism."
--Czech President Vaclav Klaus

". . . The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not."
--John Quincy Adams, Diary

"If you women continue to demand your choice to work, you will so upset the economy of this country that the time will come when you will not have a choice. You will have to work."
--Helen Andelin

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their money, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them, will deprive the people of their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered."
--Thomas Jefferson

"Permit me to control the currency of a nation and I care not who makes its laws."
--Baron De Rothschild, brainchild of the Federal Reserve Bank.

"He that will not honor the memory, and respect the influence of [John] Calvin, knows but little of the origin of American liberty."
--George Bancroft, great American historian

"I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college education is more valuable than a college education without the Bible."
--William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943), Yale University professor

"External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible."
--(Jay David) Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961), American journalist and
former Communist agent who recanted and defected to the West.

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"I am very much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of youth. I advise no one to place his child where the Scriptures do not reign paramount. Every institution in which men are not increasingly occupied with the Word of God must become corrupt."
--Martin Luther (1483-1546)

"Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do you think that such an easy religion can save you? If so, we may invert Christ's words and say, 'Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to life, and may there be that go in there.'"
--John Flavel (c. 1630-1691)

Information on tatting patterns and where to get handkerchiefs

Last updated June 12, 2007.

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Tatting
by Lynn Bonnette (Hutchins) Haney
North Carolina