LACEIOLI

For those who love hand made lace.

Recommended Books

What are the best books to learn tatting? Please post your suggestions in a comment box below.

"Tatting with Visual Patterns" by Mary Konior

The Complete Book of Tatting by Rebecca Jones.

Lyn Morton's tatting books are very pretty and have a lot of patterns to choose from.

Best books for patterns:

Jon Yusoff - Elegant Tatting Gems

Jon Yusoff Tatted Snowflake Collection.

Iris Neibach's books.

Lene Bjorn's 24 tatted snowflakes and her bookmarks.

Comment

Comment by Shirley L. Hays on June 14, 2013 at 3:05pm: I deleted my other comment since I couldn't figure out how to edit the darn thing. I made a bid mistake with the books I was comparing sorry.

I do love the Julia E. Sanders book for patterns. The layout is weird but the patterns are beautiful.

Comment by Lorelei Halley Administrator on June 14, 2013 at 1:15pm: Patty and Shirley

Thank you for your suggestions and links.

Comment by Patty Dowden on January 25, 2012 at 3:07pm: kcabrera74 has 90 tatting videos. She has an excellent array of skills for new tatters.

This is the linkto her channel. For newbies to tatting, start at lesson 1. I like that she has a comprehensive set of videos that work through all kinds of tatting skills.

Comment by Lorelei Halley Administrator on January 25, 2012 at 1:39pm: Patty

Can you find for us the urls of the most basic and helpful kcabrera videos and post them here?

Comment by Patty Dowden on January 25, 2012 at 2:03am: Well, actually, with youtube, the best book is videos. Tatting is actually made with the hands, not the shuttle. The shuttle is simply a vehicle to have enough thread to do something useful, or else you could only tat with a thread as long as your arm. Since it is the motions that are most important, I would strongly suggest videos. Just search for tatting and you will see a lot of them. The videos by kcabrera are the most complete set of instructions available on youtube.