General Rules:

1. Enter in as many categories as you like; no more than one item per category please.
2. Complete an entry form here online and print it. You will need one entry form for each item to include with the item.
3. Mounting and/or framing the work is not required.
   (If works are framed, appropriateness of frame will be considered in judging.)
4. All mailed entries must arrive no later than June 2, 2004. Entries may be hand delivered Friday morning between 10 and 11. If you "Walk it in, You must Walk it out" meaning if you hand carry your item in for the Competition, you must pick it up on Saturday evening between 6:00 and 7:00 or Sunday morning between 8:30 and 10:00.
5. Entries will be judged on June 3rd and 4th and displayed during TAT DAY, Friday and Saturday June 4-5, 2004.
6. All judges' decisions are final.

Classifications:

• Youth (up to age 17)
• Adult (18 to 64)
• Senior (65 and older)
• Master (Tat Proficiency, 2 Best of Shows, Ring of Tatters, Lace Guild Advanced Assessment )
• Professional (Earning $2,000+ (U.S. Dollars) in tatted related income when the piece was completed. Examples: teaching fees, publications, or sales of tatted items.)

Vintage Tatted Items may be submitted for display only.

WOW! What a List! A Category for Anything and Everything Tatted!
Please SEND IT IN! Everyone would love to see it!

Special Instructions:

• Items can be accepted for judging if not previously entered at a Palmetto TAT DAY.
• Items from last year may be displayed.
• Entries are expected to be clean for judging and displaying.
• Aged vintage items will be displayed.
• There is no entry fee for judged or displayed items.
• The Palmetto Tatters Guild reserves the right to use photographs of entries for publicity and educational purposes in 2004, and/or in subsequent years, without further permission being sought.
• We are creating an Online Database of Tatted Pieces. We hope you will allow your pieces to be included.
• Our photographer will be taking pictures of all items.
• Contestants must provide return postage. You may put it on the return box or include a check payable to Palmetto Tatters. If insurance is desired on the return trip, be sure to include that amount on the return box or in your check payment. Remember that there will be certificates with ribbons included in your return box so add a tad bit more to the postage for the return trip.
• If you would like to hand-deliver your piece (especially vintage items) bring it Friday morning between 10 and 11. A 3-hour open judging session will be held on Friday in the afternoon for these entries.
• If entrants want to save postage, they may pick-up their pieces on Saturday evening between 6:00 and 7:00 or Sunday morning between 8:30 and 10:00. This will be required for items hand carried in for open judging Friday.

To Participate in this Competition:

• Although we cannot guarantee against all contingencies, The Guild has taken great care to ensure the safety of each item during its exhibition at the Palmetto TAT DAY. A special post office box has been opened to handle the entries for this competition.
• Two members of the Competition Committee have arranged to pick up all entries from the post office at 10:30 on Thursday morning. Entries will be taken directly to the judging room, where they will stay until exhibition. At the end of the exhibit, all items (with their accompanying certificates and ribbons) will be returned by the Competition Committee to the containers in which they were sent, and posted by return mail on Monday, June 7th.

In order to ensure the safe delivery and fast return of your tatted items, we ask that you take the following steps.
1. Select two priority mail containers at your post office.
2. Address the smaller container to the location where you want your piece(s) to be returned and add postage for the return trip, with insurance, if desired (or you may include a check for the return postage).
3. Address the larger container to:

Palmetto Tatters Guild
P.O. Box 2152
Irmo SC 29063

4. Place inside the smaller container: a) the tatted piece(s), b) with the completed entry form for each piece, and c) a check for RETURN POSTAGE made payable to the Palmetto Tatters (if you did not put the postage on this inside container or if you will not pick up the item on Saturday or Sunday). Please DO NOT SEAL.
5. Place the small self-addressed container into the larger container, with a label addressed to Palmetto Tatters as noted above and seal this last container.
6. The mail will be opened the day of judging, therefore we will not be able to notify you when your item arrives. The Post Office does provide this service, however. If you would like to be notified that your package has arrived safely, please purchase a return receipt request from your postmaster.
7. You may also wish to purchase insurance. If you would like the item returned to you with the same insurance with which it arrived, please include that amount on the smaller return container box or include with your check for the postage. Upon opening, your tatted items - and the container in which they arrive - will be matched to the entry form and carefully tagged to insure their proper return.

You may mail your entries to the PO Box above, beginning as soon as the entry form is available, hopefully by the 28th.

If you are using UPS (United Parcel Service) or FedEx (Federal Express), you may only ship your entry between May 24-June 1. Address to:
Columbia International University
Attn: Lee Tumey, Palmetto Tatters Guild
7435 Monticello Rd
Columbia, SC 29203

Need more info?
Write Lori @ tatday@palmettotatters.org
or
Call Joy at (803) 781-3427, or e-mail @ joyathome@sc.rr.com

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