Tutorials on our network:

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Beginning bobbin lace       

Free patterns for beginners:

https://laceioli.ning.com/group/bobblinlace-beginners/page/free-patterns-for-bobbin-lace-beginners

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Torchon, Bedfordshire, Bucks point --  Jo Edkins website with lots of torchon patterns and information for beginners:

 http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/lace/index.htm

PLAITED LACE   Beginning braided/plaited lace by Lorelei Halley           https://laceioli.ning.com/group/bobblinlace-beginners/page/bobbin-lace-basics

https://laceioli.ning.com/group/bobblinlace-beginners/forum/topics/lesson-cloth-strip

lesson 1--plait, windmill crossing, knotted picots, hanging on for bookmark https://laceioli.ning.com/group/bobblinlace-beginners/forum/topics/begin-braid-lace  

lesson 2--hanging on in pairs https://laceioli.ning.com/group/bobblinlace-beginners/forum/topics/plaited-lace-lesson-2    

lesson 3--connect braid/plait to footside, 3 legged join, sew out at end  https://laceioli.ning.com/group/bobblinlace-beginners/forum/topics/plaited-lace-lesson-3    

lesson 4--use pin twice, double thread picots, temporary pin  https://laceioli.ning.com/group/bobblinlace-beginners/forum/topics/plaited-lace-lesson-4        

lesson 5 -- tallies, square and leaf shaped  https://laceioli.ning.com/group/bobblinlace-beginners/forum/topics/bobbin-lace-lesson-5-tallie     

lesson 6 -- crossing of 3 braids/plaits   https://laceioli.ning.com/group/bobblinlace-beginners/forum/topics/plaited-lace-lesson-6

TAPE LACE (BRAID LACE) Beginning tape lace.

An edging: http://lynxlace.com/learningbobbinlace-tapelesson-47.html Uses pattern 47 from the DMC book by T. Dillmont DIE KLOEPPELSPITZEN.

A mat that I designed:   http://lynxlace.com/learningbobbinlace-tapelacemat.html

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Tatman's videos on the same subject:

• Wind Thread on Bobbins
• Half Hitch on Bobbins
• Hanging on the Pairs
• Shorten the Leash 
• Cross the Bobbins 
• Twist the Bobbins 
• Working a Plait with Cross and Twist 

A simple strip of cloth stitch, half stitch, double stitch, winkiepin edge, sewing edge.  From Mark Meiers - Tatman.

• Cloth Stitch 
• Working a 4 Pair Braid           (braid/tape: a narrow strip)

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QUESTIONS, ANSWERS & CONVERSATIONS ABOUT LESSONS ON JO EDKINS' WEBSITE

• https://laceioli.ning.com/group/bobblinlace-beginners/forum/topics/lessons-from-jo-edkins-website                     
• http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/lace/index.htm 

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Chantilly lace, a point ground bobbin lace, from Lia Baumeister-Jonker, post here with her permission.

  Chantilly Lesson One part 1

  Chantilly Lesson One part 2

  Chantilly Lesson One part 3

  Chantilly Pattern 2 (can be worked with techniques from Lesson One.

   Chantilly Lesson Two 

How to wind bobbins using a string. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdbk3mHS2Us

Bobbin lace lessons, bobbin lace tutorial

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Learning tatting:

1.    Linda Davies tatting videos in the order a beginner should use them.  She says

       A tatting beginner would view my videos in this order:-

• Tatting tuition for absolute beginners
• Beading & non-twisted picot join.
• Split ring demonstration
• Split chain demo

Coronet edging (quite advanced)
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2.    Tatman's videos.  Here is a list of my video instructions for tatting in the order they should be viewed:

Tatting a Double Stitch

Making a Ring

Tatting a Picot

Joining Picots

Adding New Thread-Knotless Method

Adding New Thread For Chain

Opening a Closed Ring

Weaver's Knot

These next few videos are advanced techniques to further your skills. Learn them at your own pace:

Split Ring

Tatting a Cluny(leaf tally)

Pearl Tatting(Maltese Chain)

Pearl Tatted Chain with Rings

Pearl Tatted Chain - Alternative Method

Split Chain

Floating Chain - Split Chain

Decorative Ring and Picots

Adding Elements to Decorative Picots

Half Ring Braid

Zig Zag Chain

Picot Lock Join

Maltese Ring

Double Picot

Triple Picot 

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A series of 116 tatting lesson videos by Cabrera, which seem quite good.

http://entrelanzaderas.blogspot.com/2010/10/clases-de-frivolite-tatting-lessons.html

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ATTACHING LACE TO FABRIC

https://laceioli.ning.com/group/bobblinlace-beginners/forum/topics/attaching-lace-to-fabric 

For a discussion and diagrams for attaching lace to fabric go to the earliest page of comments in the TORCHON group.  https://laceioli.ning.com/group/torchon