What is the Palmetto Open Tat Competition?
We welcome your tatting for our competition. You do not have to be attending Tat Days to enter your tatting. Pre-registration of your piece(s) is required by August 12. We ask that you complete the online form and then print it to include with your piece(s). If local, please bring your pieces and entry forms to the August 18 meeting. If MAILING your entries, please do so to arrive in time to GET TO WEST COLUMBIA BY September 5. Or bring them to Tat Days Thursday evening, September 6, between 3:00 and 5:00 and after dinner between 6:30 and 8:00 or Friday morning, September 7, between 8:30 and 11.
General Rules:
- Enter in as many categories as you like; only one item
per category, please, except where noted.
- Complete an entry form online and print it. (Registration is closed. THANK YOU for your entries!) You will
need one completed entry form for each category entered. Must
complete by August 12 so we will know how many entries to expect.
- Mounting and/or framing the work is not required.
(If works are framed, appropriateness of frame will be considered in
judging.)
- Due to the volume of entries anticipated, we would like to have all
of the local entries either hand delivered to our August 18 meeting or mailed/shipped to Katharine Buckner our Competition Chairperson. (See below for address.) Bring or include entry forms.
- All mailed entries must arrive no later
than Wednesday, September 5, 2007. Entries may be hand delivered with entry forms Thursday evening, September 6, between 6:30 and 8:00 or Friday
morning, September 7, between 8:30 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 6:30 and 7:00.
- Entries will be judged and displayed during
Tat Days, Friday and Saturday, September 7 & 8, 2007.
- All judges' decisions are final.
Classifications:
- Youth (up to age 13)
- Teen (13 thru 18)
- Adult (19 thru 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.)
| Categories |
| Baby Item (bonnet, booties, etc.) |
Linens embellished w/tatted motifs |
|
Bookmark (up to 3, judged as a set) |
Mixed Media (used different materials, not different types of lace) |
| Butterfly (up to 3, judged as a set) |
Motif/Medallion (2 of identical pattern required) |
| Celtic |
Note Cards / Stationary (set of 6) |
| Christening Gown |
Original Pattern (with sample of tatted piece) |
| Clothing embellished w/tatted motifs |
Single Piece by More Than One Tatter (round robbin, etc.) |
| Collar |
Small Item / Single Motif |
| Doily |
Scene or landscape |
| Edging (attached or unattached) |
Tatted Table Linens |
| Fine Thread Work (size 50 or smaller) |
Three-dimensional Works |
| Floral or Vegetation |
Wearable (handbag, shawl, hair bow, vest, etc.) |
| Holiday Ornament (up to 3, judged as a set) |
Wedding Apparel & Accessories |
| Jewelry (earrings, necklace, chatelaine, etc.) |
Wire Works |
| Theme: "Flower Garden" (Special ribbon
awarded for this category.) |
| Handmade shuttles and other tatting tools (Form and
function will be judged.) |
| Other (items not in the categories listed above) |
Vintage Tatted Items are always WELCOME! Please submit
a "competition" form including the history of the piece. Although not
judged, these items will be displayed and recorded.
WOW! What a List!
A Category for Anything
and Everything Tatted!
And remember the theme category of "Flower Garden"
Please SEND IT IN! Everyone would love to
see it!
Special Instructions:
- Items can be accepted for judging if not previously entered
at Palmetto Tat Days.
- Items judged at a previous Tat Days may be displayed.
- Entries are expected to be clean for judging and displaying.
- The judges wish to know: 1) What is the intended use of this
piece? 2) Was it tatted just for this Tat Days competition? 3) How many years have you been tatting? Please do
not identify yourself in your answers to these questions.
- Aged vintage items will be displayed.
- There is no entry fee for judged or displayed items.
- Under "Tools" on the Entry Form, please specify needle or shuttle for prize purposes.
- The Palmetto Tatters Guild reserves the right to use photographs
of entries for publicity and educational purposes 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 and these pictures will be on the Tat Days Commemorative Picture CD.
- 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(s)
(especially vintage items) bring them Thursday evening between 6:30 and 8:00 or Friday morning between 8:30
and 11.
- If entrants want to save postage, they may pick-up their pieces
on Saturday evening between 6:30 and 7:00.
This will be required for items hand carried in.
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 Days.
- 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. If mailed in, they will be posted by return mail on Monday after Tat Days.
Mailing Entries:
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
c/o Katharine Buckner
517 Cedar Field Lane
West Columbia, SC 29170
USA
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). 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. 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 Palmetto Tatters Guild membe noted above, beginning as soon as
the entry form is available.
You may also use DHL, FedEx (Federal Express), or UPS (United Parcel Service), and mail to the same Palmetto Tatters Guild member above.
Need more info?
Call Katharine at (803) 951-1961 or email Katharine
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