Bicolor rings using needle tatting and two different colored threads wrapped alternately.

This French language tatting book is great for beginning tatters. Pascale Provost & Mick Fouriscot present all the basics in full color, step by step photos and illulstrations.

This antique pin cushion top (finished diameter approximately 4 inches) was presented on pages 75-76 of Lessons in Embroidery published early in the 1900s by M. Heminway & Sons. Barbara Hevener has removed all the unnecessary cut and tie methods used in the original and modernized it.

Here are the basic steps for cluny tatting.

Opening a closed ring can be frustrating, but there are ways to do it.

Finger tatting requires only thread and hands and is the easiest way to begin to tat.

A brief overview of several methods of tatting: finger tatting, shuttle, needle, needle used as if it were a shuttle, cro-tating, Japanese hook tatting.

TATTING REST CURE FOR BRITISH BRAINS; Reprinted from the New York Times, Feb. 2, 1913. Public Domain article.

Traditional One Shuttle Tatting - 4 row edging

An explanation of the term "Oeillet" as used in tatting patterns.