Tatting Lace from Scratch: A Beginner's Introduction to Rings, Chains, Picots, and Shuttle Patterns with 20 Step by Step Projects for Doilies, Bookmar (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798180399410)

The moment your first ring closes, tatting stops being a craft you are trying to learn and becomes one you actually know how to do.

Most tatting books assume you already know what you are doing. They describe the flip in two sentences, attach a diagram that makes sense only in retrospect, and leave beginners to solve the rest on their own. That is why tatting has a reputation for difficulty that it does not actually deserve. This book exists to close that gap entirely.

From Your First Flip to a 25 cm Doily

• Master the flip through mechanics that make correct feel unmistakable before any ring is attempted
• Close your first ring cleanly in one session and repeat it on demand
• Form chains, picots, and joins with precision before any project begins
• Read standard tatting notation so any published pattern becomes accessible
• Complete 20 original projects arranged in strict order of increasing complexity
• Progress naturally into two-shuttle work, split rings, and continuous rounds
• Block, finish, wash, and store every piece so it holds its form for decades

Every project is sequenced so that each one introduces exactly one new technique before the next begins. Nothing appears in a project until the preceding chapters have prepared you for it.

What the 20 Projects Cover, in Order

• Five bookmarks progressing from rings-only to fully interlocked joining sequences
• Four lace edgings including a corner-turn technique for household fabric attachment
• Five wearable jewelry pieces with stiffening, sizing, and finding attachment guidance
• Six doilies from a 9 cm three-round foundation to a 25 cm eight-round heirloom piece
• A full blocking, finishing, and care chapter so every piece reaches its potential

The flip is the only genuinely difficult step, and this book is built around teaching it with a precision that earlier tatting publications never bothered to provide. Once internalized, every technique is a direct extension of that same motion. The 25 cm doily you finish last will bear no resemblance to the bookmark you made first.

Pick up your shuttle, find the flip, and start the first piece that leads to twenty.

Author: Roselyn Emard
ISBN-13: 9798180399410
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 06/06/2026
Pages: 84
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.17d