venetian picots

I absolutely love venetian needle lace but I can't do it. If you feel ready to get amazing inspirations, you may follow this blog: Merletto Veneziano by Ombretta Panese.
Lately I've been playing with venetian picots, they have a characteristic look that is like a stick. I think I've found a way to tat them and after many failed attempts, eventually I've got something very similar:

You can see from the picture that I used an auxiliary thread:

The trick is finger tatting the picot, with an auxiliary thread, looped inside a first half stitch, and to go back toward the chain with first half stitches

Of course it can be done in rings or chains, as though they were normal picots

I tried to film myself but I need more time to have a video good enough for youtube.

I've bought one of the books written by Ombretta Panese and Marialuisa Severi, there's wonderful lace and even if I won't learn how to do it, it's very interesting to have an idea of the technique

You see I couldn't resist to buy the reprint of Palliser's, for only 4,32 euro. And I also bought that one by Alicja Kwartnik, "Bordi con il chiacchierino ad ago", a gift for a friend, new tatter (hurray!).

Another 2 books that I bought in the last few weeks: one is another reprinted old book and the other is new and very interesting, by Alessandra Caputo (her site is Merletto Italiano) "Il baule di Angelina". It is about how Alessandra received a chest full of old sets of samples, bobbin lace and needle lace, belonged to a lady who used to teach in a female professional school in Rome, and that lucky, fortuitous finding was the great opportunity for her to study the lace and the history of the school from the last years of the XIX century till about our days.

Ciao,
Ninetta

Update: video added: http://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2018/04/video-for-venetian-picot.html