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Basic Tatting Instructions [offsite link]
Here is a page with clear photographs illustrating how to tat with a shuttle.

Free Shuttle Tatting Instructions [offsite link]
Here is another site giving instructions on shuttle tatting for the beginner.

Front Side Back Side Tatting [offsite link]
This is a lesson describing how to keep your tatting on the right side!

How to finish a Doily [offsite link]
Nancy Price has written some excellent instructions for making your finished doily look really good.

How to make a Blocking Board [offsite link]
Here are some instructions from Nancy Price on how to make a blocking board.

Learn to shuttle by finger tatting [offsite link]
This site specialises in needle tatting but there are very few patterns for the needle which cannot be done with the shuttle. Here you´ll find instructions for learning to tat in the style of shuttle tatting, but without a shuttle.

Needle Tatting Demonstration [offsite link]
There are lessons and patterns here for beginners.

Patricia Rizzo´s instructions for the beginner [offsite link]
Here is a page giving a series of clear diagrams on how to tat with a shuttle.

Picotnet Basic Tatting Instructions [offsite link]
This compilation of instructions on how to tat is from Picotnet, a large site with a lot of information and patterns on tatting.

Sharon´s Tatting [offsite link]
Sharon Briggs has many interesting pages with lots of helpful information for the beginner, along with an online video you can watch to get the shuttle hand movements right.

Tatting Instruction [offsite link]
Here are some instructions for the beginner learning to flip that first stitch. There are no illustrations however.

Tatting Techniques [offsite link]
This page gives a series of excellent videos and instructions for the beginning tatter.

Tatting Thread/Material
Tatting with materials other than the ´normal´ crochet cotton thread.

Tutorial to learn Needle Tatting [offsite link]
Pamela Devries has written a series of tutorials to teach the use of the needle in tatting.

When to Tat
Best and worse times to tat

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