Easy Tatting
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This clearly written, lavishly illustrated guide to the age-old art of lace-making allows even novices to fill a treasure chest with lovely tatted designs.
Veteran tatting instructor Rozella Linden has included clear, step-by-step instructions that will help you create simple rings and picots for such projects as earrings, a small sunflower, and an ice crystal as well as chains for flower pins, a small rosette, a lacy square, and a snowflake ornament — among other designs. Advanced tatters will find directions for completing elegant projects that include a tatted necklace (which can also be used as edging), an oval doily, a fancy snowflake, and a delicate table mat.
Over 65 drawings and photos enhance this collection of easy-to-do but very attractive patterns that will not only inspire and delight anyone interested in this intriguingly beautiful craft but also enable even beginning tatters to create treasured possessions of exquisite handmade lace.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Interesting book for its simple progressive teaching of tatting. Easy to follow explanations although I would have followed the more commonly used abbreviations in order for the learner to be learn from the beginning how to read other patterns.
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Easy Tatting - Rozella Florence Linden
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Introduction
The origin of tatting is somewhat of a mystery. However, it was all the rage in the 18th and 19th century among well-to-do and fashionable ladies—fine work for fine ladies.
The term picot
is French and many credit French aristocrats with inventing tatting. Perhaps it was borrowed from the working class, who used a similar technique to mend their fishing nets. After fine lace became available in stores, the art of making homemade lace declined for several decades. Today the interest in tatting is growing and many people want to revive the lost art
of making tatted lace.
The first 90% of learning to tat is learning to make the knot or double stitch. The other 90% is figuring out the instructions. This is reality, not math.
Tatting instructions can be very cryptic. Often those who know how to tat still have trouble with the instructions in most tatting pattern books. I often have to try two or three times before I get some patterns to come out right! The purpose of this book is to provide tatting instructions and patterns for beginners and anyone else who would benefit from seeing how to do it.
The illustrations were done using a CAD program and are not always exactly to scale. I have, however, attempted to draw them as close as possible to the correct proportions.
Numbers are used to indicate how many double stitches there are in a ring or chain, or between picots.
Letters in the illustrations refer to the written instructions and are used to show where to begin, where to join, etc.
Equipment Needed for Tatting
Tatting shuttle: A metal one with a removable bobbin and a hook on one end for joining is recommended. Keep extra bobbins on hand for use with different colors of thread. All the projects in this book use one tatting shuttle.
Thread: Beginners should use a thick crochet thread—size 5, 8, or 10 will do. It is easier to learn to tat using a variegated color thread,