I bought these pretty mats from my favorite charity shop in Blackpool last April. I felt the need to buy all of them as a collection and make use of them in a future art project. The bottom image is an example of Tatting, a technique I hope to learn one day. It is amazing to think about how many hours of work went into making them. Work produced by women in the home has often been dismissed as amateur and poorly made. These finds show the great skills of the non-professional crafts person.