fun (or fan) in direct tatting

I started an edging, just for fun, pattern is the last round of a doily, from Needlecraft February 1925 Vol. XVI No. 6 page 20, that I found here: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/classes2001/fall2001/spencer.html

That is similar to the pattern for the "Piano scarf edging 1916", here: https://web.archive.org/web/20150907025442/http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art2704.asp

I'm not joining the base of the down trefoil, that makes a curved edging but on the opposite side.

As it often happens (to me at least!), I began the edging without a clear picture of what to do, but now I think it would be nice for a fan. That's because Caterina, a lady in facebook, asked for help in finding a pattern for a fan and I'm very glad she asked because then I started to think about it. Thank you Caterina!

Then, back to the edging. The colour would be perfect for a fan, but now I should think how to continue... I love tatting puzzles!
I'm using a DMC thread, size 80, colour number 3778.

The shape that I've drawn is based on a fan's dimension of 23cm long from rivet to leaves and 10,5cm sticks from rivet to lace, the shape must be a little bigger to let the lace fold when closed. This shape has already been "tested" with the fan I made in filet lace. Squares in the paper are 4x4mm, paper is a piece of a large notebook, a little bigger than the A3 paper size. Also, remember that the lace stretches a little.

(the open fan is showed at the end of another post, here: Robin's magic tutorial )

The vintage pattern asks for an inward-facing picot, even if it is not mentioned in the written text. A inward-facing picot is also called drop picot or clip picot or down picot, it is a picot made with the core thread. I'm tatting the chains in "direct method tatting", that is tatting reverse stitches, not flipped, like in the second side of a split ring. I wondered how other tatters have made it and then I googled about it. I found something actually, but nothing about inward-facing picot in direct tatting. There's not a great difference, of course I use a pin like in the normal way, but if you please, I put a video in my channel, that is me tatting that picot.
Link to the video:  https://youtu.be/d02yb-cKSLI

Useful links:


Some fans' patterns:

• by Rosemarie Peel 1998: http://web.archive.org/web/20041221084429/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peelhome/freepat/fan.htm  (this is my favourite, it is on my long to-do-list!)
• "Eventail" a fan pattern by Lucette Evain-Lacan from her needle tatting book, "La frivolité à l'aiguille pas à pas.": http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2010/lucetteelfan.html
• "Fan-tastic Project!" A tatted lace fan by Linda S Davies : http://freepdfhosting.com/d786a7dcbb.pdf
• by Jane Eborall: http://www.janeeborall.freeservers.com/fan2005.pdf
• Adrienne's tatted fan: http://reocities.com/heartland/5082/patterns/adrienne_fan/adrienne_fan.htm
• There are fan's patterns in "Mani di Fata" issue 9 and issue 14, too.

This is something about direct tatting:

•  Direct tatting is like encapsulation (http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2003/encap/encap.html), ds are not flipped, they are reverse stitches, for example the second side of a split ring is direct tatting. 
• by Frivole: "Reverse stitches?", there are also interesting comments: http://leblogdefrivole.blogspot.it/2016/02/reverse-stitches.html
• See also Frivole's last video about the "magic loop helper", where she shows how to tat reverse stitches unflipped on a chain.

This is a list of links that I found looking for inward-facing picots:

• Drop picot, Down picot, Inward facing picot: https://web.archive.org/web/20150906013924/http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art878.asp
• A video by Karen Cabrera, Frivolite-tatting lesson 88 - picot en hilo base - clip join: https://youtu.be/UAMMplmI5cY
• Superbowl Sunday Snowflake 1999: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/superbowl.html
• Gina Brummet Shares a Vintage Pattern Using the Inward Facing Picot from Needlecraft Magazine January 1921: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2010/ginabnc1921janinpicot.html
• Mock rings tatted by Jane McLellan: http://janemactats.blogspot.it/2016/05/mock-rings.html

Ciao,
Ninetta