US Patent 5,727,439, granted March 17, 1998 to Lauren P. Pelc, for a tatting shuttle that holds multiple thread bobbins between paired planar plates so that three or more colors can be tatted without cutting and tying threads. It includes the abstract, four claims, a description of a method of tatting with two carrier threads plus a working thread, and six sheets of drawings showing the shuttle, hand positions for the knots, and sample tatted chains and rings in three colors. The document is present as both a USPTO database printout (2002) and the patent's printed pages.