what’s in a name

Here I am again, with another roundup for the #Endrucks1920Project. For the #NameMeEndrucks Game Of The Month in June 2024, we invited our group to go through the 44 patterns in the 1920 book, ‘Die Schiffchen-Spitszen’, and detect, adapt, and tat the letters of  ENDRUCKS’ name from the author’s own patterns, from any motif in the book.

June 28th is the birth anniversary of Frau Eleonore Endrucks, the author of the 1920’s tatting book for which our Endrucks 1920 Project (#Endrucks1920Project) has been created. She was born in 1885 in Cologne (Germany), exactly 140 years ago, and the book was published when she was 35yo. We should be very grateful to Simone Beyer, who discovered her birth date and even few biographical notes. This info is contained in a document with the translation into English of the book’s Preface and Tips. Here is the link – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-LzBnvzj7azCWLXJACSvcNHegXfP4fv_/view 

We are planning to create a proper document about Frau Eleonore’s life and her family, thanks to the work behind the scenes by another lady, ElisaT, who’s also helping us in tracking down contemporary (1916 to 1935) patterns in the style of the Endrucks' book. I talked about it here: - https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2024/04/findings-and-online-life.html

For years we had used a banner which I tatted following the alphabet designed by Edda Guastalla, very similar to Endrucks' style (but not included in our Project, it’s in Edda's Etsy shop). Frau Endrucks’ birth anniversary in June 2024 was the right occasion for organizing a game, with the aim to design our own Endrucksian letters, and hopefully assemble a new banner.

Eventually, the wonderful and clever group has produced many letters, banners, and numbers too, which continue to arrive till today! The list is growing and now they are all gathering in one specific directory - many have patterns, some are only tatted models. Here is the link: “Lettering & Numerals” – it includes letters, numbers, words, banners, and we hope there will be entire alphabet sets! –   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S4AP67BmSNIRJ2Vo36EHgUQ3yQMkrIjCv43YvYvWWRE/view 

You can join the fun whenever you like! Here is the link to the game details, prepared by Muskaan - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1235560633606162/posts/1825973364564883/   .

And here is the link to the FB album dedicated to the Game - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.860405692809774&type=3

In this roundup there are ONLY pics of the letters and banners sent in DURING JUNE 2024 by members of the group, listed alphabetically. For this initial set, many patterns have been shared already and others are being prepared.

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1. Anita Spotz Barry – She posted a Number 2 extracted from E17, saying:– “I tried to stay true to Endruck’s pattern, yet tat a number 2 out of her arrangement of rings & chains”.
More surprisingly, the model turned counterclockwise 90° becomes a bird! Anita’s magic!

2. Julie Santos Villegas – She showed us her trials and first ideas and soon came up with a Number 2 extracted from E13, and a Number 8 extracted from E39 (models only). Then she showed us her work in progress for her own banner, and all her afterthought around the “S” in particular. Then, she put there a sentence we often read in our group! - “I learned a lot doing this project.“ - Me too, dear!
E is from E41 ; N is from E24 ; D is from E26 ; R is from E9 ; U is from E1 ; C is from E5 ; K is from E27 ; and S is from E23 .

We used the banner for happy new year wishes in the first week of 2025, and it is the current cover of our Fb group.

3. Lella Loops – Lella is the short name for Donatella, so she chose to needle tat the Letter D from E26.

4. Manju Talekar – Undoubtedly, she started with the idea of tatting a banner. She told us that she tatted the C and the E with two shuttles, in one pass, and used Lizbeth size 20 thread.
E is from E41 ; N is from E24 ; D is from E10  ; and C is from E1 .

Be prepared to something special, because she’s working on an entire alphabet, all letters derived from E17! In a few weeks she has already reached the halfway mark. Read updates in the “Lettering & Numerals” directory.

5. Muskaan – When we first talked about the Game, I was still in the nebulous phase when she immediately found 3 letters: in her words “E jumped right out from E2 without requiring any change; D could be extracted by rotating E5; and C was visible in E17 when flipped over!”. She thought she could not take an active (actual tatting) part in the game, but in June there was also the International Lace Day, a very tempting occasion to make the shuttles fly! By the end of that Day, she had two “C”, one from E17 and the other from E10 (both are still models only).
Then, for the Number 28 she tatted 3 versions, and shared in her blog a cascade of ideas (who else but she can see a squirrel from her number 2 ?????).
Read what she says here - https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2024/06/see-cs.html
and here - https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2024/06/evolutionary-addiction.html

6. Ninetta Caruso – Here is my tiny and crooked letter K adapted from E27. But the Smiling Lady said it’s “Italic” (or cursive), so I couldn’t object! 😄
It was not good at the first try and you can see my false starts in the background! Then I changed a little the stitch count and it eventually looked like the letter K!!

7. Paola Bevilacqua – She posted on 29th of June, just in time to gift us two letters, D from E19 (where she included two “captured picots”(*)!), and E from E32. Both were tatted using a metallic Sanbest thread, which she didn’t like working with. She was not fully satisfied with the E and reworked it later in October, with a more cooperative cotton thread. In October, she thought to use the E idea and transform it into a letter B or a number 8. Patterns are now all available.
(*) “captured picots” - https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/search/label/captured%20picot

8. Vani Kattoju – Just at the beginning of the month, she came out with an amazing full banner! Then she shared another R, from E9 (model only).
E is from E1 ; N is from E1 ; D is from E5 ; R is from E8 ; U is from E1 ; C is from E5 ; K is from E21 ; and S is from E28 .

We used her banner to celebrate the 3-year anniversary of the Fb group in the last months of 2024.

➤ Many more ideas and patterns, which have been shared afterward and still continue to arrive, are listed in the “Lettering & Numerals” directory –   https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S4AP67BmSNIRJ2Vo36EHgUQ3yQMkrIjCv43YvYvWWRE/view

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So, “what's in a name”? What we call just an edging, from another point of view, inspires and triggers creativity to transform into anything else, and it happens every time we look at it with new eyes. From me and Muskaan an enthusiastic thank you to everyone and the wish to always be inspired and have new eyes! We wouldn’t be wrong in saying in the name of creativity that Frau Eleonore would have been very proud of you!!  🥰

Read Important Endrucks 1920 Project links (EP Links) here
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1w1TZBg-HIzseGEUoJ-rko7tNbtSgZY5A18Oy2Y9Hh0Y/view – Save or bookmark this to easily access our vastly expanding Project -

Ciao,
Ninetta and Muskaan