A member of Craftree.com was lucky enough to pick up a few tatting items from a friend, one of which was a Lael Morgan tatting shuttle. The shuttles were made in the 1970s and are not very common. I do not have one.
It was mentioned in the comments that Lael Morgan had a website, which I visited. I found that she is an author. Not surprising for a person who had a patent for a tatting shuttle she had written a book on tatting. Lace-Lovin’ Diane wrote about it on her blog a few years ago.
But that wasn’t the only book she wrote. She wrote at least nine other books as well. There was only the one that was about tatting, the others were much different. There is even one on earthquake survival. A lot of the books are about Alaska or people from or living in Alaska. Including “Good Time Girls.”
My husband traveled to Alaska last year and brought home this book. I didn’t realize the author knew anything about tatting until the conversation on Craftree. I haven’t read it yet, it’s been borrowed by my brother-in-law. I will definitely be reading through it when it comes back home. I want to find out if there is any mention of tatting in it.
Have you read any of Lael Morgan’s books? Do you have one of her shuttles?
“Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.” Bill O’Reilly brainyquote.com
How interesting to discover a tatting connection!
I had no clue until the Craftree conversation led me to her website. It proves that tatters can have a lot of different interests outside the knotting of thread.
Ive never heard of her, and not been on Craftree much this year, so I think I better catch up a bit.
Lovely shuttle and looks an interesting tatting book.
I discovered a hard to find Lael Morgan shuttle in a tatting kit on Etsy. See here:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/675967701/lael-morgan-tatting-shuttle-1981-nos-kit
Thank you for the head’s up. Unfortunately, I seem to have had a problem with getting my comments and posting.
I just got one of these shuttles and am trying to find out more about it.
Good luck on your search. I only know what I put in the post. The link to Lael Morgan’s site is broken, not found, so I removed that. You could also search for “Lady Hoare shuttle” which you tell you something of the shuttle type.