Guest Author - Beverly Elrod
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, Larkfs Head
LHK >> Larkfs 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 Larkfs 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 gTurnh 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
