Chiacchierino facilissimo: Resources&Inspirations

Tatting resources

The Online Tatting Class: https://www.theonlinetattingclass.com/
Tatting by Jane Eborall: http://www.janeeborall.freeservers.com/
Karen Cabrera's videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/kcabrera74/videos
Jennifer Williams: https://www.cariad-tatting.com/
~~Tatting & Design by Teri TATBiT Dusenbury: http://teridusenburystattletales.blogspot.com/~~
Level of Skill in Tatting Techniques (Shuttlebirds Tatting Guild): http://www.shuttlebirds.com/techniques_level_of_tatting_and_basic_tatting_kit1.shtml
An Element-al Approach to Tatting Design, Location of Instructions and Patterns by Technique (by Eliz Davis): https://tatknot.blogspot.it/p/tatting-techniques.html

TUTORIALS, free PATTERNS and LINKS (for shuttle tatting) by Muskaan: https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com

"Ring of Tatters" TIPS (for shuttle tatting): http://www.ringoftatters.org.uk/tips/tips.html
TIPS and LINKS (for needle AND shuttle tatting) by Gloria Nelson: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1774052256037040&id=724059564369653
~~Tips (mostly for shuttle): http://www.tatsall.ca/tips.htm~~
About technics ANKARS by Rina Stepnaya: http://www.ankars-club.ru/index.php/component/content/article.html?id=158
About BEANILE lace by Nina Libin: http://www.beanile.com/
Over 300 free tatting patterns: http://www.allcrafts.net/tatting.htm

Tatting Class Homework: http://tattinghomework.wordpress.com/
Aurora's TatHelper: http://tathelper.blogspot.it/
~~Susan Fuller's Designers Class~~
Miranda's method - finish with SSSR: http://tattingfool.blogspot.it/2011/07/finishing-with-sssr.html
Hiding Ends in the Last Chain, by Frivole: https: //flic.kr/s/aHsju3oSQy
Wide Picot, ©2003 Dan Rusch-Fischer: http://pages.suddenlink.net/tatmeister/widepicot.html
Introduction to Cluny Tatting, by Mimi Dillman: http://mimidillman.com/blog/introduction-to-cluny-tatting/
Magic Square - Serpentine Square : a list in Craftree with links and patterns https://www.craftree.com/patterns/3308

Leigh's Needlework & Craft Bibliography: http://www.somethingunderthebed.com/
Lacis Museum of Lace and Textiles (Berkeley, California)
TATTING from Concept to Conceptual Art from its mid 19th century beginnings to todays innovative creators... June 3, 2016 to April 1, 2017. Slide Show: http://lacismuseum.org/exhibit/Tatting/SlideShow/

In Italian, video tutorials by Daniela Ambrosini (for shuttle and needle) https://www.youtube.com/c/DanielaEAmbrosini/playlists
In Italian, video tutorials by Antonella Berardi (for needle): https://www.youtube.com/user/LECOSEDELLAANTO
In Italian, video tutorials by Edda Guastalla (for shuttle): https://youtube.com/channel/UCjket-GFLnJ_Sn_YvGPiD5w

· By Shelley, "What is a tatter?" http://prairielacetatter.blogspot.com/2020/03/hello-lovely-tatters.html

Tatting books online:

Antique Patterns Library site (tatting)
T.de Dillmont - "The Encyclopedia of Needlework", Tatting

it was first published in 1886 in French: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k62794921/f10.item.texteImage

Beeton's Book of Needlework, tatting patterns
“La fantasia”: giornale illustrato di mode e ricami, Volume 2 - 1867
“La fantasia”: giornale illustrato di mode e ricami, Volume 3 - 1868
Nuovo manuale elementare dei lavori delle dame secondo le più recenti variazioni della moda, 1868

it was first published in 1868 in French: Leçons de couture, crochet, tricot, frivolité, guipure sur filet, passementerie et tapisserie, par Mme Emmeline Raymond
English translation of the tatting chapter found in "The Tatmeister's Tatting pages": http://pages.suddenlink.net/tatmeister/ldc.html

The Archive of Tatting Books in the Public Domain: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/public/publicindex.html
University of Arizona, Digital Archive of Documents Related to Tatting: http://www2.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/topic_tatting.html

Tatting books reviews:

Over 1,200 reviews! http://www.somethingunderthebed.com/CURTAIN/TATTINGbiblio.html

A list of lists:

Maltese Ring technique:
Tutorials:
- by Miranda: http://tattingfool.blogspot.com/2011/04/daisy-picots-and-maltese-rings.html
- by Corina Meyfeldt: http://cmhandmade.blogspot.com/2014/04/fake-maltese-chain.html
- by Eliz Davis (aka Tatknot): http://www.georgiaseitz.com/classes/maltesesnowflake.html
- pdf files by Anastasija Yelisejeva: http://frivolitatting.com/
then follow "Theoretical part"--> "2.1 Basic ways of tatting and implementation in methods and elements.". This one in particular is about Maltese Ring: MalteseRing_ENG_18.05.12.pdf
Videos :
- (Needle tatting, by The OTC) Lesson 23 Pearl Tatting or Maltese Tatting: https://youtu.be/lp6AdmkpAfE
- Tatting a Maltese Ring by tatmantats: https://youtu.be/40CoWuUPX8k
- Maltese Ring by Karen Cabrera: https://youtu.be/Ijw7lbhaPvA
Pattern with Maltese Rings from The Pearl Tatting Book by Riego, 1866:
Nov. 3 Bella Online Newsletter Riego pearl tatting pattern
Patterns:
Riego Maltese Butterfly by Jane Eborall (pdf)
Maltese Ring Pinwheel Flake by Eliz Davis
by Anastasija Yelisejeva, patterns at: http://frivolitatting.com/
by Jane McLellan: https://janemactats.blogspot.com/2013/01/sunflower-pattern.html
Books:
- The Pearl Tatting Book by Riego, 1866: http://www.georgiaseitz.com/public/riego/riego10thepearltattingbook.pdf
- The 'Alternate Thread' technique I learned that it's explained in one of the books by Gary and Randy Houtz; unfortunately I still don't have that book. Anyway, I found their link with a drawing: https://www.gr-8shuttles.com/ATbook.shtml

Pearl Tatting technique:
Tutorials:
- by Jennifer Williams: https://www.cariad-tatting.com/techniques
- by Riet Surtel and Jane Eborall: http://www.janeeborall.freeservers.com/PearlTatting.pdf
- by Eliz Davis (aka Tatknot): ~~http://www.georgiaseitz.com/classes/maltesesnowflake.html~~ http://web.archive.org/web/20190608224620/http://www.georgiaseitz.com/classes/maltesesnowflake.html
Videos offered by The Online Tatting Class in YouTube:
- (Neddle tatting) Lesson 23 Pearl Tatting or Maltese Tatting: https://youtu.be/lp6AdmkpAfE
- Pearl Tatting: https://youtu.be/gpN4wPvyRYw
Patterns from from The Pearl Tatting Book by Riego, 1866:
Mlle Riego 4 Shuttle Tatting
Nov. 3 Bella Online Newsletter Riego pearl tatting pattern

Layered Pearl Tatting by Karen Bovard Sayre - The ShuttleSmith https://survivalarchitecture.com/shuttlesmithblog/2015-ioli-convention-class-pearl-tatting-part-2/

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
I've my method to obtain a face inward picot, that I showed in a drawing in Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/agHxVU
I have a video in my channel, that is me tatting that picot in "direct method tatting", using a clip.
Link to the video: https://youtu.be/d02yb-cKSLI
Muskaan shared a new picot: the "Intruding Picot" and used it in a ‘lollipop onion ring’ where the outer ring is tatted first: https://tipsaroundthehome.blogspot.com/2020/07/picot-is-posted.html

A short list of free online snowflakes that I've found with block tatting in them:

by Jane Eborall: http://janeeborall.freeservers.com/MotifCatherine.pdf
by Sue Hanson: https://www.georgiaseitz.com/classes2/blocktat/hanson.html
by Bettina Lauth: https://www.georgiaseitz.com/classes2/bettinaflake.html
by Adelheid Dangela: https://www.georgiaseitz.com/2013/adelheiddangleberlinflake.pdf
by Roger L. aka Freedman: https://craftree.com/patterns/5001
by me, my "fior di filet" snowflake, here: https://flic.kr/p/2hR6LeP
by Jennifer Williams ("star using block tatting"): https://www.cariad-tatting.com/
by Ben Fikkert: http://bentats.nl/Carrevlok.html
by Jane Eborall: http://janeeborall.freeservers.com/Coriolis.pdf
by Jane Eborall (block centre): http://janeeborall.freeservers.com/Snow3in2013.pdf (***)
by Jane Eborall: http://janeeborall.freeservers.com/MotifWhirlygig.pdf (***)
by Carol Rasor: https://web.archive.org/web/20050215131532/http://www.tattings.com/snow2/snow2_12.shtml (among a storm here: https://web.archive.org/web/20050403221520/http://www.tattings.com/snow2/)

Those with the (***) are two patterns where Jane Eborall uses the technique of block tatting done with lock stitches chains, she has a technique page here: http://janeeborall.freeservers.com/LockChainBlock.pdf

Sites/blogs:

Daniel Rusch-Fischer: (aka 'Tatmeister' and 'Tatman'): http://pages.suddenlink.net/tatmeister/main.html
The Historical & Etymological Roots of the Word Tatting © 2009 Daniel Rusch-Fischer, CFM, LEED-AP (link: https://web.archive.org/web/20130714132346/http://www.tribbler.com/tatman/Tatting-HistoricalAndEtymologicalRoots.html)
"Atelier Sakamichi", a tatting blog from Japan, link: atsaka.exblog.jp.
(Russia) Angela Gambka http://angelagambka.blogspot.com/ - https://www.facebook.com/angela.gambka
(Lituania) Irina Astratenko http://www.beadsky.com
(Russia) "JTatter" Yulia su Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jtatter__yulia/
(Japan) Erika Tashiro https://tat-marmelo.blogspot.com/
(Japan) https://www.facebook.com/oike.nobuyuki.7
(Japan) https://www.facebook.com/karyun.tatting/ - https://ka-ryun.com/
(Hong Kong) https://www.facebook.com/lazydaisytatting/
(Korea) Ha Mi-Kyeong (tattingweed) https://www.instagram.com/p/BiBDhB6A5dk/ - https://m.blog.naver.com/rein9814/220838776350

My own design process

https://ninettacaruso.blogspot.com/2016/01/a-tiny-project.html

Inspirations

Bosa's Filet

If you would like learning more about Bosa's filèt, “SU LÀURU 'OSINCU”, you may read a great post by Jeanine: Sardinian Bosa Filet Lace
~~There's another link I found, with pictures of nets designed and done by the very same ladies who came here, but it's in Italian:~~ ~~http://www.ladonnasarda.it/magazine/chi-siamo/3087/tradizioni-e-saperi-si-intrecciano-nel-filet-il-ricamo-di-bosa.html~~
A book: "Io e il filet di Bosa", Marina Mureddu 2012, Ed. PetitesOndes
Another reference: Associazione Culturale Manos de Oro - Filet di Bosa - there's a page in Facebook
About netting in general: T.de Dillmont - "The Encyclopedia of Needlework", Netting