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

• Merletto Veneziano
• Facebook page: Tombolo Aquilano - Cristina's bobbin lace
• Giuliana Ricama - magazine
• Merletto Italiano (Alessandra)
• BeadDiagrams.com - free beading patterns

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

Polar Graph papers you can download and print for free:

• https://www.printablepaper.net/category/polar_graph

Beads and colours

• The power of color in jewellery: http://www.firemountaingems.com/resources/jewelry-making-articles/B65M
• RGB values for DMC floss: https://www.csh.rit.edu/~vance/pages/color.html  
• Learn The Basics Of Colour Theory To Know What Looks Good:  https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2014/10/learn-the-basics-of-color-theory-to-know-what-looks-good/
• The Ultimate Guide to Understanding Hue, Tint, Tone and Shade: https://color-wheel-artist.com/hue/ 

Dollhouse miniatures

• Dollhouse miniature furniture tutorials 1 inch minis http://1inchminisbykris.blogspot.com/

Diritto d'autore / Copyrights in Italy

• traduzione e divulgazione degli schemi: http://www.maglia-uncinetto.it/2013/tradurre-e-divulgare-pattern-come-fare/
  
• diritto d'autore in Italia
•  new link: http://bibliotecadigitale.cab.unipd.it/bd/per_chi_pubblica/archivio/diritto-dautore-e-copyright
• Bruno Saetta - Internet e diritto