(Faggoting) basic, turkish, purse, and feather

Knitted Textile

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BLUE: The TATTER Textile Library

Name/Title

(Faggoting) basic, turkish, purse, and feather

Entry/Object ID

2020.1.322

Description

From the book: "Faggoting is a basic lace stitch. It is, in fact, lace reduced to its two bare essentials: (1) a yarn-over stitch and (2) a decrease. Typically, faggoting consists of just these two operations and the pattern has only one row. In spite of this simple structure there are a surprising number of different types of faggoting. Faggoting may be used as a vertical insertion, to set off other patterns. Or it may be used as an allover fabric, in which case it resembles a form of netting and has great elasticity. Thus it is very good for fancy stockings or tights, openwork gloves, dress sleeves and the like."

Collection

Barbara Walker Swatch Project

Category

Chapter 10 : Lace

Acquisition

Accession

2020.1

Made/Created

Artist

Helen Torevell

Time Period

circa 2020

Notes

Helen learned to knit from her mother as a young adult. She knitted less during her career as an NHS nurse and manager, but returned to the hobby several years ago at the encouragement of a colleague. She is a self-proclaimed knitting geek, and loves learning more about yarns and techniques.

Lexicon

Getty AAT

Concept

knitters, knitting (needlework), knitting (process)

Color

Blue

Location

Box

Barbara Walker Swatch Collection

Room

Library