#like one day someone came up with the idea of winding thread around a shuttle

lumiy-a reblogged

I'm tatting, making split rings, and I'm just like. How. How did someone come up with this shit? What prompted someone to make these knots like this and just. Create lace?

#i ask myself the same very often when i’m tatting #like one day someone came up with the idea of winding thread around a shuttle #and use it to make very precise but intricate knots and use picots to join them #how?!?!#tatting #not w.i.t.c.h.