vintage tatting container

[Kita]

Hello everyone!
i'm starting to do victorian reinactment, and am thrilled that my tatting is now period :)
I have seen some references to tatting boxes for the mid 1800's, but can't find much in the way of photos online or in the old magazines i have been able to download
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I'm asking for any pictures folks may have in their books that show a vintage/authenic tatting box.
I'm handy enought to make it once i decide on a design, but like i said, want it authentic.
I know small pouches were period, but I want to go beyond the 'pouch'.

there have been postings in the past, but the sites are no longer there, so if you have done a posting of one in the past, it may need to be redone.

thank you!

Kita

[TattingChic]

Gosh, to my knowledge it was usually a little drawstring bag! Oh, you just said you wanted to go beyond pouch...I'm pretty sure a vintage sewing box will do...many of them contained a tatting shuttle. I've googled sewing boxes with tatting shuttles and found sewing boxes with tatting shuttles in them. Don't know if that helps.

[helen]

Hi there. I'm pretty sure I recall seeing an advertisement for a tatting box in a antique stitching magazine that's downloadable at http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/ I am unable to recall in which one I saw it though. I apologise for that. Have fun browsing. I know I did and I keep revisiting. Happy Tatting. I hope you find what you're looking for.

[Kita]

i saw the same advertisement, it is one of the books written by Mlls. Riego, i think 1850.
i also just saw a slide box that was advertised in the uk as a tatting box specifically-it had an inscription titling it from 1837. Which got me thinking that there should be some pictures or drawings out there....

[grrrlshapedthing]

this page has a Godey's Lady book and magazine article about a tatting box and how to trim it http://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/w...c_tatting.html

[RandaGray]

If I were doing something, I'd probably make some kind of roll with pockets sewn in. Kind of like what you'd do for a paper, but with pockets. It's probably not what you'd see in a magazine though.... But my idea would be a piece of leather or something stiff enough a needle wouldn't go through, lined with fabric, then with pockets on the inside to hold needles, hooks, shuttles, extra thread, etc..... But I suppose there are much better ideas out there :)

[grrrlshapedthing]

Randa I made something similar to what your talking about for PattyD from a Victorian magazine you can see it not all the way finished in my album

[RandaGray]

I saw it :) It's almost exactly what I was talking about!! And here I thought I'd had an original idea.... *sigh* :)

[Judy]

Here's another idea. I bought a wifi mouse from apple, and it came in this gorgeous clear acrylic box just crying out to be re-used for something. Its about 3 cm deep, and 10 cm long with rounded corners. Not at all Victorian, but would be pretty with a nice shuttle and some tatting inside.

[katie]

I posted a pic on my blog of a tatting box from around the 1800's, along with a pic of the box I found at Hobby Lobby that's very similar. Here's the link:
http://tinyurl.com/32dvot5