Keep in mind that abbreviations, like clothing, is always in a cycle. Some things never change and others are continually being changed, added or deleted (become obsolete). You will never find a complete list of abbreviations because of this.

Numbers>> Number of stitches per section
(e.g. 2,
5, 10)

+ >> Join

- >> Picot

�‚ >> Picot

. (period) >> Picot

�} >> Picot join: (Used for multiple joins)

++ >> Beaded picot: bead is slipped onto the picot and then the picot is joined to

= >> The picot that a motif will be joined to

-- >> Medium Length Picot

--- >> Long Picot

Adj >> Adjacent

B >> Bead

Beg >> Beginning

Betw >> Between

BP >> Beaded Picot

C >> Chain

Ch >> Chain

CP >> Cluny Picot

CR >> Central Ring, Cabone Ring

Cl R >> Close Ring

CTM >> Continuous Thread Method: winding shuttle(s) without cutting thread from the ball.

OR >> Open Ring

dbl k >> Double Knot

DHS >> Double Half-Hitch Set: work 1st half of ds twice and then 2nd half of ds twice

DNR >> Do Not Cut

DNRW >> Do Not Reverse Work

DR >> Dimpled Ring

DK >> Double Knot

DS >> Double Stitch

FTJ >> Free Thread Join

FTS >> Free Thread Space

IC >> Inner Circle

IR >> Inner Ring

J >> Join

JR >> Josephine Ring, Aka: Josephine Knot

JK >> Josephine Knot

LH >> Left Hand, Lark�fs Head

LHK >> Lark�fs Head Knot: knot formed when doing the unflipped side of a split ring

LHT >> Left Hand Thread

LHWC >> Left Hand Wrap Color

LHWT >> Left Hand Wrap Thread

LJ >> Lock Join

LOC >> Loop Over Connection

LP >> Long Picot

LR >> Large Ring

LS >> Lock Stitch (For shuttle work: make 1st half of DS unflipped, then make 2nd half normal)

MR >> Mock Ring, Medium Ring (making a chain join back onto itself; appearing to be a ring)

Node >> A basic style of Victorian Set: 2 x 1st half of DS then 2 x 2nd half of DS
Stitch

NT >> Needle Tatting

O >> 2nd half of double stitch

OR >> Outer Ring

OU >> Reverse Double Stitch (done when doing front side/back side tatting: make 2nd half of DS, then 1st half. This is done when working with the WS facing you).

P >> Picot

PCh >> Previous Chain

PIR >> Previous Inner Ring

PLR >> Previous Large Rign

POR >> Previous Outter Ring

PR >> Previous Ring

Prev >> Previous

PSR >> Previous Small Ring, Previous Split Ring

QHS >> Quadruple Victorian Set (4 x 1st half of DS, 4 x 2nd half of DS worked in sequence to each other)

R >> Ring

RDS >> Done when working front side/back side tatting, with back side facing you - do 2nd half of double stitch followed by 1st half in sequence.

REM, Rem >> Remaining

Rep >> Repeat

Resp >> Respectively

RLHK >> Reverse Lark�fs Head Knot: when working the 2nd half of a split ring, with the back side facing, in front side/back side tatting. Work the LHK with 2nd half; then 1st half.

Rnd >> Round

RW >> Reverse Work: Depending on the pattern, this could mean to flip work from top to bottom, or to rotate it, like a cartwheel, depending on the circumstances. You might also find the term �gTurn�h used to mean �gReverse Work?�h in some older patterns.


SC >> Split Chain

SCMR >> Self Closing Mock Ring

P >> Picot

Sep >> Separated

SH >> Shuttle

SShs >> Switch Shuttles

SR >> Small Ring, Split Ring

SLT >> Shoe Lace Trick

SS >> Switch Shuttles

ST >> Stitch, Shoe Lace Trick

Sts >> Stitches

THS >> Triple Victorian Set (1st half of DS three times, 2nd half of DS three times in sequence).

U >> 1st half of DS: stitch made when dropping the loop to insert the shuttle down through the center of it.

UO >> Double Stitch: DS: (a formal way of writing out the way the DS is made; used in some advanced Node Stitch and Victorian Sets work)

UTS >> Unworked Thread Space, AKA: Bare Thread

XP >> Extended picot

VS >> Victorian Sets

Wsh >> Working Shuttle