{"id":57,"date":"2014-02-01T06:01:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T06:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2014-03-22T04:07:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T04:07:07","slug":"split-ring-tatting-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/split-ring-tatting-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Split Ring Tatting History"},"content":{"rendered":"
Anne\u00a0 Champe \u00a0Orr<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Nashville, Tennessee<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
1869-1947<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
The originator of Split Ring Tatting Technique is Anne Orr<\/b><\/span>.<\/div>\n
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Anne Orr was a Nashville, TN native.\u00a0 She was the art editor for Nashville-based Southern Women\u2019s Magazine from 1913 to 1918.\u00a0 During that time she started producing and publishing inexpensive needlework patterns out of her home as ‘Anne Orr Design Studio’. Titles and subjects included tatting, crochet, embroidery, quilting, and knitting patterns.\u00a0\u00a0 In 1919 she became Needlework Editor for Good Housekeeping magazine, a position she held until 1940, just a few years before her death in 1946.\u00a0 One reference credited her with publishing about 100 booklets in the 30 years she was active.\u00a0 Some of her books were sponsored by names such as J & P Coats and Clark\u2019s Thread and American Thread and Spool Company.<\/div>\n
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We as tatters are aware of her booklets numbered 13, 24, 35, 43, and 48 since they were either entirely devoted to classic tatted patterns or had tatting patterns in them.<\/div>\n
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Anne Orr Publications of Interest to Tatting<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/b><\/i>#13\u2014Tatting<\/b><\/i>–copyright 1918
\n#24\u2014Miscellaneous Needlework<\/b><\/i>\u20141923<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Crochet, Cross-Stitch and Tatting, Book No. 14<\/i><\/b>—1923 (pub. by J. & P. Coats Co.)
\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/i>#35\u2014Tatting<\/b><\/i>–originally 1935, then revised in 1940
\n#43\u2014Tatting<\/i><\/b>–1942
\n\u00a0<\/i><\/b>#48\u2014Tatting<\/i><\/b>–1950<\/div>\n
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The Very Beginning of Split Ring Tatting Technique<\/span><\/span><\/b>\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n
It was in Tatting, Book No. 13<\/i><\/b>, published in 1918, that the concept of Split Ring Tatting technique was introduced.\u00a0 It was titled \u201cNew Method in Tatting<\/span>\u201d\u00a0 and was illustrated nicely with 4 clear photographs of the steps\/progression of how a split ring is created.\u00a0 New Method In Tatting was accompanied by \u201cDirections for the Reverse Stitch<\/span>\u201d.\u00a0 The Reverse Stitch is what we know as untransferred double stitches on the second portion of the split ring. However, in Tatting, Book #13<\/i><\/b> there were no patterns or illustrations to show what the \u2018new method\u2019 or the \u2018reverse stitch\u2019 could do\/create in tatting.<\/div>\n
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The Missing Split Ring Tatting Pattern Links !!!!!<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
In 1923 Anne Orr published two books that DID have the first Split Ring Tatting technique patterns:<\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Miscellaneous Needlework, Book No. 24<\/b><\/i> (pub. by Anne Orr Publishing)<\/div>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Crochet, Cross-Stitch and Tatting, Book No. 14<\/b><\/i> (pub. by J. & P. Coats Co.).<\/div>\n
These two books are quite obscure and are the missing link between Anne Orr\u2019s creation of Split Ring Tatting technique and usage of the technique in a physical form.<\/div>\n
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Miscellaneous Needlework, Book No. 24<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/i><\/b>has five Split Ring Tatting Technique patterns as well as “New Method in Tatting\/Directions for Reverse Stitch” on pages 6 & 7.\u00a0 The remainder of the book is devoted to needlework and crochet patterns.<\/div>\n
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Cross-Stitch and Tatting, Book No. 14<\/span><\/b><\/i>\u00a0 has \u201cNew Method in Tatting\u201d and \u201cDirections for the Reverse Stitch\u201d.\u00a0 Page 7 & 8 has 12 tatting patterns which are purely Split Ring Tatting technique patterns.<\/div>\n
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This is the author’s original booklet. <\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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It was printed using red ink. <\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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The booklet must have gotten wet <\/span><\/i>and the ink ‘ran’.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
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Other Tatting-Related Anne Orr Publications<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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A.<\/b> Altered and abridged republication of Tatting, Book No. 13<\/b><\/i> published by Dover Publishing Co. Originally published by Anne Orr in 1918<\/span><\/div>\n
B. <\/b>1935 publication of Tatting, Book No. 35<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
C. <\/b>1940 republication of Anne Orr’s Tatting, Book No. 35. <\/i><\/b>Republished by Dover Pub. Co. as Anne Orr’s Classic Tatting Patterns<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n
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D. <\/b>1942 publication of Tatting, Book No. 43<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
E. <\/b>1950 publication of Tatting, Book No. 48<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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M<\/span><\/span>ary Sue Kuhn<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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1946-1993<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Des Moines, IOWA<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Even though Anne Orr gave the tatting world the ability to do Split Ring Tatting Technique, there were few clues as to how to use the technique or the technique and Orr\u2019s patterns were so obscure that they were not used or recognized for their brilliance.\u00a0 <\/span>It wasn\u2019t until Mary Sue Kuhn self-published her book The Joy of Split Ring Tatting<\/b><\/i> in 1984 that tatters knew what to do with the technique of split ring tatting. Very little is known of Mary Sue Kuhn because she died at a fairly young age of cancer. She did self-publish a previous book called The Joy of Tatting<\/b><\/i> <\/i>in 1979.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n
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According to The <\/i>Joy of Split Ring Tatting<\/i><\/b>, in about 1981 Mary Sue Kuhn was \u2018browsing\u2019 through her out-of-print copy of Anne Orr\u2019s Tatting, Revised<\/i>, Book No. 35<\/i><\/b> and found \u201cNew Method in Tatting\u201d and \u201cDirections for the Reverse Stitch\u201d. She used this information to further pioneer Split Ring Tatting by creating patterns to utilize the technique.\u00a0 <\/span>She says she renamed the technique \u2018Split Ring\u2019 tatting because she thought that Anne Orr\u2019s use of the term \u2018Reverse Stitch\u2019 described only half of what is done in the technique. She does use \u2018reverse stitch\u2019 as the direction to tat the second portion of the split ring. <\/span>Her book has wonderful illustrations to step-by-step work Split Ring Tatting. It has patterns for alphabet letters, a cross, doily, snowflake, and a collar. Even today her patterns are still unique for the use of pattern design that utilizes visually effectively two different colors for the thread sources. Most modern Split Ring tatting patterns use the same color of thread for both thread sources.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Dora Young<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

1915-1991<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

Portland, Maine<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

Another contribution to Split Ring Tatting technique was given by Dora Young.\u00a0 In 1974 she published All New Knotless Tatting Designs<\/b><\/i>.\u00a0 Dora Young and her book have been credited with being the originator of Split Chain<\/b> (not<\/i> Ring<\/b>) Tatting <\/b><\/span>Technique<\/b> and subsequently Continuous Tatting <\/b><\/span>Techniques<\/b>.<\/span><\/h3>\n

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The\u00a0 basis of the \u2018Knotless Method\u2019 of tatting can be used to create split rings in a different, though more cumbersome, way than the modern form of Split Ring Tatting Technique attributed to Anne Orr and Mary Sue Kuhn.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n
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Dora Young\u00a0 refers to her version of a split ring as\u00a0 \u2018Making a KM (Knotless Method) Ring\u2019<\/b>.\u00a0 She was unique in the tatting world in that she actually patented her technique in 1973.<\/span><\/div>\n
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There are several reasons why Dora Young’s Knotless Method<\/b> is so unique:<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a01.<\/span>\u00a0 Basically the Knotless Method<\/b> of tatting is a different way to produce a half and\/or double stitch.\u00a0 <\/span>In traditional tatting technique half\/double stitch formation, the shuttle\/thread source in passed under, over and around the core thread.\u00a0 <\/span>However in the Knotless Method<\/b> of tatting, the way double stitches are made does not allow for the shuttle to go over\/under\/around the core thread.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n
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Chains\u00a0are created from one side to a central area, then the thread source used as the working shuttle is taken over to where the traditional <\/span><\/div>\n
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1.\u00a0 The first portion of the Split Ring is created as a \u2018chain\u2019 with two thread sources.<\/div>\n
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2.\u00a0 The working-shuttle thread is joined to the base of the chain (by the first double stitch made) with a locking join, leaving a space of bare thread equal to the space that the rest of the split ring is to occupy.<\/div>\n
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3.\u00a0 The work is reversed and then using the shuttle thread source, the second-portion of the split ring double stitches are created on the space of thread created between the last chain double stitch and the locking join using what we know today as the Split Chain Tatting<\/i> technique.<\/div>\n
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Upon completion of the appropriate number of double stitches, the two threads sources are brought back together at the end of the mock ring<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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T<\/span>here are many patterns in Dora Young\u2019s All New Knotless Tatting Designs book but they do not resemble \u2018Split Ring\u2019 designs.\u00a0 Most of her designs utilize many chain elements and resemble crochet-inspired designs including \u2018pineapple-type\u2019 designs.\u00a0 <\/span><\/div>\n
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Heidi Nakayama, author of Tatting Shuttles of American Collectors<\/em><\/strong>, 2002, has copyrights to All New Knotless Tatting Designs<\/i><\/b> from Dora Young\u2019s family.\u00a0 At the time of this writing, Heidi plans to republish the book (author\u2019s personal communication with Heidi Nakayama)<\/em> in the future.\u00a0 Heidi\u00a0 plans to add more history about Dora Young and her shuttle collection to the republished version.\u00a0 I encourage all fans of tatting technique and history to acquire this book when it comes available for their tatting libraries.\u00a0\u00a0 Visit Heidi’s website for photos of Dora Young’s shuttle collection, her tatted butterflies, and a photo of\u00a0Dora herself\u00a0at:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/sites.google.co\/site\/krazyabouttattingshuttles\/<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anne\u00a0 Champe \u00a0Orr Nashville, Tennessee 1869-1947 The originator of Split Ring Tatting Technique is Anne Orr. Anne Orr was a Nashville, TN native.\u00a0 She was the art editor for Nashville-based Southern Women\u2019s Magazine from 1913 to 1918.\u00a0 During that time she started producing and publishing inexpensive needlework patterns out of her home as ‘Anne Orr … Continue reading Split Ring Tatting History<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-57","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}