Tatting: schemes. Tatting needle for beginners

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

What do you do in your spare time? You can get carried away with something familiar, or you can discover something new. Like, for example, tatting. Schemes and descriptions of work will help and clearly show what can happen in the end.

Types of needlework

The word "needlework" means "to make with hands". You can do it from different materials: from fabric, thread, natural materials, paper, glass… The same applies to the way the work is done: you can glue, knit, embroider, weave, burn out…

There are activities that are very popular, but there are not very popular, there are complex and simple, traditional and modern… In any case, if you want to do something with your own hands, then from all this great variety of hobbies you can choose an activity to your liking. This article will focus on an unusual hobby - tatting.

Tatting

This is lace weaving with a shuttle. It came to Russia from France, therefore it is translated from French as "frivolity". Tatting was fashionable in the seventeenth century. Gloves, handbags, umbrellas, as well as curtains and napkins were then made using this technique. Some kind of special lightness emanated from such things, and they belonged to everywomen.

After the revolution, tatting was declared a lordly whim and undeservedly forgotten.

Today, against the background of hobbies of various kinds of needlework, tatting was remembered. It has become a hobby to decorate and personalize things.

Making lace with a shuttle using the tatting technique is easy and very exciting. No special expensive equipment is required. Weaving is very easy to master, and the end result is so beautiful that you want to improve your skills again and again.

Simple weaving

Tatting lace is made from just one knot, which alternates with broaches. They are called "picot" and are connected in circles and arcs. Various combinations of this duet form the pattern. If you master the execution of this knot when making lace using the tatting technique, it will be easier to read pattern patterns.

Knot is performed with a needle or shuttle. Consider tatting for needle beginners.

Tying a double knot is performed as follows. We press the thread with a needle to the finger, leaving a small end. We take the working thread on the index finger, twist it and put it on the needle. Tighten the knot carefully. Again we take the working thread on the finger and twist it, as in the first case, only in the other direction. We throw it on the needle, pull it up, and the double knot is ready.

Now let's see how pico is made. First make five double knots as shownabove, then leave a little free thread and again make a double knot. Now we pull it to the weave and get a pico. Its value will depend on the length of the free thread that we leave between the nodes.

Let's continue weaving further to this length: there should be three picot and four segments of five double knots on the needle. Let's make a ring, which is the main element of tatting lace. To do this, thread the working thread into the eye of the needle, pull the weave onto it, stretch it to the end and make a ring.

Now let's see how these rings connect to each other. We leave a little thread, approximately, as on a pico, and we knit five double knots. We connect them with the first picot on the ring made earlier, for this we draw the thread with a needle. And then we knit like the first ring.

After learning how to make these simple elements, you can move on to more complex patterns that are performed using the shuttle.

Tatting crochet

There is another way to weave - this is crochet tatting. Let's see how the flower is made. Instead of a needle, take a hook, it is very convenient for them to drag the thread into the finished circles.

The main element of the flower is a circle, the implementation of which is described just above. We will perform it from four double knots. When the first circle is ready, we make a connection: we collect four double knots, we knit the fourth and third together and we collect one more knot. The connection is ready. Then we carry out weaving in a similar way. In total, we will make six circles, connecting the first and last. It will make a wonderful flower.

It can be used as a separate craft, such as an earring. It can also be an element of a more complex weaving. For example, it can be seen in the center of the napkin shown in the first photo.

Tatting world

Remarkable are things made in the technique of tatting. Photos of such products are proof of what beauty is obtained.

This piece of jewelry will be a great addition to the outfit and will further emphasize the individuality of its owner.

Tatting lace, the schemes of which are presented in the article, can be an independent product and a decorative element of both a thing and a room. This diagram shows a lace element that can be used in any product.

An example of the first group would be hats, dresses, jackets, lace prints, handbags, bookmarks.

Decorative potholders, napkins, tablecloths, birds and animals, vases, snowflakes are designed to decorate the room.

Collars, flowers on a dress, cuffs can be used as an element. The diagram clearly shows how you can make a collar using the tatting technique.

And, of course, you can make all kinds of jewelry in the form of earrings, rings, bracelets, necklaces, hair clips.

Tatting masters

The art of lace weaving using the tatting technique, diagrams and photos of finished products are so fascinating that once you get acquainted with them, you always return to this needlework, improving your skills.

For many needlewomen, this hobby has become a matter of life, and they willingly share their skills.

Such tatting masters as Elena Ignatova from Kharkov, Olga Meshkova from Abakan, Tatyana Romanovskaya from Odessa, Elmira Kukhtichenko from Donetsk are known in wide circles. Their works are so exclusive and magnificent that, looking at them, you just want to try your hand at weaving these circles. Many of them have their own websites where they share the secrets of craftsmanship or talk about new works. They are creative and offer non-standard design solutions, embodied in original products. They are regular participants in various exhibitions where you can buy their work.

And of course, I must say about the world-famous Pole Jan Stavash, who did a lot to popularize tatting, he also dispelled the myth that needlework is not for men.

This is how this unusual type of needlework appeared before us.