Arts and Crafts: Lacemaking: Tatting

Gr8 Sites You Might Find Useful:

Adele Shakal - Adele shares her favorite tatting resources.
Alida's Tatting - A tatted box is one of the items shown on this Italian site.
Amy's Page - Amy, from Mielke's Farm in Wisconsin, has added a simple bookmark pattern.
Ankars - Unique jewelry, tatted by Irina Astratenkocan of Lithuania, is in an extensive gallery.
Ann Brady - An Eastern Star emblem can be downloaded from site.
Atelier Exanimis - All fourteen of these projects from Japan are well documented, making them easy to duplicate. The four original pieces include patterns.
Barbara's Tatting - Barbara has tatted five feet of Ann Orr's wide edging pattern, plus two doileys.
Becky Kelly's Tattin' Needle - Her gallery includes a square Celtic motif with pattern.
Ben Fikkert - Author of Floriade, this Dutch tatter shares a gallery of his exquisitely worked doilies, plus instructions for set stitches and other techniques.
Birgit's Tatting Page - Free original patterns, including hearts, Celtic, snowflake, star, butterfly, angel, and a spider.
Bittersweet - A news article from Missouri discusses tatting.
Bordi - An Italian tatting gallery holds several nice edgings. Click 'next' to see twelve more tatting samples.
Carol's Tatting - A sea scene is in this gallery. Carol also tats owls, bells and hearts.
Christiane Eichler - The pattern finder on this site links to over 200 sources. There are also directions on how to tat a square ring, and a comparison of shuttle and needle work.
Clara's Ribbons - Clara, who learned to tat in 1953, won blue ribbons for her doily and tatted lady. See them under photos.
Craftown - A dozen classic tatting patterns are in this collection.
Danaw Tatted - Her grand-daughter created this memorial to the tatting art of Georgia Azmon.
Debbie Drake - A communion cloth (with pattern), a tablecloth, and a wedding handkerchief are among Debbie's works. She also tats items to benefit her church's building fund.
Donna Marie's Habit Tat - A Van-Dyke edging pattern is included with this gallery of 17 photos.
Donna's Gallery - Doilies, bookmarks, a baby bonnets and a crazy quilt are in this photo album.