Macrame & Knots

People have been stiffening tatting since the early 1920's. Many have used sugar and water as a stiffening agent, only to find that it became sticky and attracted insects. Stiffen tatting for a...

Variegated thread is thread that is dyed several different colors or different shades of one color. Using variegated thread for tatting projects will create bold and beautiful pieces when the...

Tatting can create complex and beautiful lace patterns. One drawback is that the more complex and larger the piece is, the more thread it uses. This means that you'll need to join a new piece of...

Attach tatting to clothing to create delicate looking designs. You can add tatting to edges or to the items themselves to change the look of clothing and purses. Create tatting designs in...

There are various thread-based crafts throughout history. Many, however, involve special tools. Tatting is a knotting technique, often used to create durable lace crafts, that doesn't require any...

Tatting is the art of making knots in a continuous thread to form rings, ovals, and strings and, in the end, anything from delicate handkerchiefs to bookmarks.

The ring is a basic "stitch" for delicate tatting work.

The Josephine Ring is also known as the Josephine Knot and Josephine Picot.

The node stitch is usually written in patterns in "sets of stitches." As the work progresses, small "nodes," or bumps, appear equally spaced on both sides of the piece.

A picot isn't actually a stitch; it's the space between the stitches. A picot is made by leaving a space between double stitches.

When tatting, you'll be joining rings to form your patterns. Here's how to link one ring to the next.

Here's the key to reading the abbreviations used in a tatting pattern.