| English | Abbreviations | French |
Bare Thead Space, BTS | laissez courir u peu de fil | |
| Chain | A | arceau,chaine |
| Close | fermez | |
| Continue all around | jusque au bout | |
| Cut | coupez | |
| Double stitch, DS | ND | noeude, node double |
| Following | suivant | |
| Half stitch | demi-noeude | |
| Join, + | raccordez | |
| Needle (tatting needle) | aig | aiguille |
| Picot | P, p, - | picot |
| Picot Josephine | PJ | picot made from half stitch only |
| Previous ring | anneau précédent | |
| Reverse work | retournez de travail | |
| Ring | R, r | anneau, rond,ring |
| Separated by | séparé | |
| Shuttle, shuttle 1, shuttle 2 etc | SH1, N1 etc. | navette, navette 1, navette 2 etc. |
| Skip, miss | sautez | |
| Start | debut, commencez | |
| Tat, make... | fairez | |
| Tatting | frivolité | |
| Tie off | nouez | |
| Times, i.e, number of repetitions | fois | |
| Turn, turn work as in turning a page of a book | tournez | |
| Using 1 (2, etc.) shuttle(s) | avec 1 (2, etc.) navette(s) |

