Tatting

Cro-tatting Cro-tatting combines needle tatting with crochet.

Stitches of cro-tatting (and needle tatting before a ring is closed) unravel easily, unlike tatting made with a shuttle.

Tatting pin Traditional shuttle tatting may be simulated using a tatting needle or doll needle instead of a shuttle.

A form of tatting called Takashima Tatting, invented by Toshiko Takashima, exists in Japan.

Although needle tatting looks similar to shuttle tatting, it differs in structure and is slightly thicker and looser because both the needle and the thread must pass through the stitches.

A tatting shuttle facilitates tatting by holding a length of wound thread and guiding it through loops to make the requisite knots.

Cordonnet thread is a common tatting thread; Perl cotton is an example of a beautiful cord that is nonetheless a bit loose for tatting purposes.

Few patterns are written specifically for needle tatting; some shuttle tatting patterns may be used without modification.

However, it may be seen that the Victorian tatting pin would function as a tatting needle.

In the late 20th century, tatting needles became commercially available in a variety of sizes, from fingering yarn down to size 80 tatting thread.

Many people consider cro-tatting more difficult than crochet or needle tatting.

Pam Palmer, Tatting, Shire Publications, 2000 The term for tatting in most European languages is derived from French frivolité, which refers to the purely decorative nature of the textiles produced by this technique.

The cro-tatting tool is a tatting needle with a crochet hook at the end.

All available evidence shows that tatting originated in the early 19th century.

As most fashion magazines and home economics magazines from the first half of the 20th century attest, tatting had a substantial following.

A tatting needle is a long, blunt needle that does not change thickness at the eye of the needle.

In its most basic form, the rings are tatted with a length of plain thread between them, as in single-shuttle tatting.

In the 19th century, "crochet tatting" patterns were published which simply called for a crochet hook.

Needle tatting originated in the early twentieth century, but did not become popular until much later.

Takashima Tatting uses a custom needle with a hook on one end.