A one-page excerpt from Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary (1876) with entries for the tatting shuttle and the tatting-shuttle winder. It describes two shuttle designs, one with a sheathed spool and retractable tatting hook and one with a spring-retracted protracting pin, and a device that transfers thread from a spool to the shuttle bobbin. Two cross-section figures (Figs. 6228 and 6229) illustrate the shuttles.