If you are still having trouble forming these knots, or getting them to behave as they should, I have a video with a closer, more detailed look at knot formation, especially getting it to “flip.” ruclips.net/video/fe322z_T8nU/видео.html
I gave up learning years ago. I heard it was a dying art that ladies in their 80's did, and I bought a shuttle. Couldn't find anyone teaching. Now I found you. Keep adding videos. Save the tatting art. Thank you so much.
I too wanted to learn tatting many years ago. As a matter of fact way back as a teenager. I couldn't find anyone who knew the art or was willing to teach it. Thank you so much. I'm excited to learn. I've watch part 1 video and it seem pretty straightforward. I'm going practice, practice and practice some more. Thank you again
Ladies in their 80s are a dying breed of women who knew the feminine arts. It makes me incredibly sad but I do see younger generations interested in crochet, etc. I'm 44 and can do most things, but want to learn tatting. A lot of talent in our forebears❤ Nice to see channels like this for those of us who no longer have grannies to ask.
I tatted the lace on my wedding dress… and for my headress and veil. I learned from a 90 year old neighbour. So nice to see that you’re teaching others.
My grandmother did all those “old fashioned” crafts, including tatting (born 1900]. I have a cedar chest full of it. Over the years, I’ve given many pieces away, mostly as wedding gifts. I feel like I’m passing on a family heirloom.❤️🇨🇦
I grow up with tatted doilies all over the place that were made by my great and great great grandma. My grandmother never liked how tedious it was and my mother never took the time to learn. I was fascinated with it my whole life but was too young to have learned when my great-grandmother died. I found a shutter at the craft store just the other day. I broke down and said it's time for me to finally pick up where two generation left off.
Wonderful! I’m so glad you’re learning it, especially when it was such a big part of your family. How great to have grown up with heirloom tatting all around. What a treasure!
35 years ago I got married and wore me Mam's veil, now about 55 years old. Her sister tatted lace around the edge of the veil for me. It must have taken hours! Thank you for showing me. Loved the outtakes x
I had a great Aunt who started with a shuttle. I was always amazed at how quickly she would create the wonderful designs! As a child it seemed like magic. She died before I could learn to do her magic. Now, decades later, I think I might have the patience to learn. Your instructions are so easy to follow! Thank you for your time and patience!!
I am excited to see this video. I will have to watch and rewatch ,and sure it will take much effort. But,I learn best by watching someone demonstrate. So,thank you for this video.
I do knitting, crochet, cross stitch, sewing, book binding, I used to do bead work but the looms were not for me so now I'm considering tatting looks pretty fun and relaxing thank you for making these tutorials I look forward to trying this
I’m 72 now and my grandma would put tatting lace on my doll clothes. It is the one skill that I didn’t learn from her and was always a lost art to me when she passed. Glad you are here to teach it to me.
I learned tatting in my early twenties around 50 years ago. I found it very special because I didn’t know much people who knew this craft. It was hard to find books with this techniek and no internet to make the search easier. When internet came in the nineties my technique improved and now with RUclips there is no end to learning new things. Thank you for showing how to tat. Today I am working on a doily from Jan Stawasz who has a special technique.
I'm 66 and have wanted to learn how to tat forever. I have memories of watching my grandma tat and being fascinated with it. I was about 6 at the time. I'm so happy to have found your series. Thank you for your vlog. I have ordered a shuttle and hope my arthritic hands will cooperate so I can learn.
When I was a small girl and had learned to crochet a little, my mother mentioned tatting and I didn't know what that was. For some reason or another we didn't have a tatting shuttle, so mother just made one with cardboard. She was able to at least show me a little of how it worked. After I was grown, I bought a tatting shuttle and it has stayed in my sweing basket because I couldn't remember how I was supposed to use it. Glad to see someone instructing how to tat.
In the 1960s my grandmother tatted. She did small flower groupings and glued them on note cards packaged with envelopes. She then sold them to JC Penny. It truly is a lost art.
I love tatting, and the results it makes are so beautiful. Unfortunately my arms tendinitis flares up horribly when I try, even needle tatting, making it impossible to do for longer than a minute at a time. I love the fact that it's more "simple" lace, and something poorer people made for more utility oriented clothing. Thank goodness I can still do bobbin and crochet lace!
I’ve been teaching crochet and tatting for over 40 years among several papercraft skills. I always take a small project with me on holidays and to save space in my suitcase I find tatting the most convenient of all crafts, it’s so portable I even put it in my pocket as it takes so little room, even less room than a paperback reading book. You can put it down and it won’t unravel as the ‘stitch’ is actually a knot almost the same method as fisherman’s net making. If a piece of tatting was cut in half only one stitch from each cut end will fray. It may be a very old craft that produce very beautiful and hard wearing piece of fabric and I hope some people will continue to practice this craft and keep it from dying out.
45 years ago bought a lovely little dolly in a antique store , lady told me it was tatting had never heard of tatting knew of other arts. Of course RUclips video had not been thought of. So even though not going to start this hobby at this point in my life thank you for showing me how my lovely now deffantly antique dolly that has been in frame was made.
My mother tried to teach me this art many years ago when I was little. She made some beautiful lace with it. Bless her, I drove her to distraction as I never managed to pick it up!
My grandmother, born in 1892, used to tat. In the 60s, she would send me notes with little tatted flowers glued to the top and leaves drawn in green ink. I wish I had known how precious that was. I don’t have any of them now. 😕
My mother was a wiz at tatting! She died recently at 95 years old, had promised to teach me but we never got around to it, what with all the things that needed to be done. I'm so glad I found this channel!
I'm an avid crocheter and hand sewer, I love doing things that are a bit more old fashioned. My granny taught me the basics of crochet and embroidery. I spent cold qintery days doing those two things in the spare bedroom. Tatting would be such a cool skill to hone. Will be exploring your videos in the future!
I do needle tatting, crochet, sewing, cross stitch, Japanese bookbinding and Indian beading. Never could figure the shuttle out but thanks to Aleene's Creative Living I have learned so much from them and the library 🥰😍😆 maybe I'll give the shuttle a whirl.
My mom taught me how to tat w hen I was 12 yrs. Old. I'm currently 67. She gave me her mothers shuttle. I lost my grandma's shuttle in a move. But I still have a pillow case with lace on it that Gramma made. The case and lace. I never met my grandparents. Deceased before I was born. My mom was born in 1914. Tatting is an ooold art. I'm happy to know it. Happy you brought it up. 🙂
I learnt to tat as a teenager to adorn my jeans. I loved it, but not heard it mentioned for over 30 years, I think I may have to do it a shuttle and revisit. Thank you
Im so thrilled to stumble on this site. My maternal grandmother was a wonderful tatter.She made a beautiful tatted bodice to put on my front of my wedding dress that my mother hand made for me.
I have beautiful pieces of tatting my grandmother made I found them in her sewing machine, which I inherited her old treadle sewing machine is very rare. It was only made for two years in between before the war, and after the war World War II, I have tried and tried to learn to tat I am 69 years old and this is still on my bucket list so I hear I am watching your video. Getting ready to try again cross your fingers and wish me luck.
Good luck! If you have any trouble forming the knots, make sure to see my video called "Flipping Tatting Knots." In it I focus on just the knot formation and getting the knot to flip using really thick yarn, close shots, and a giant shuttle so it's easier to see. 😊 You can do it!
This video was A GOD-SEND! Thank you for having clear, easy to understand instructions AND a video that actually showed what you were doing with the tools! I'm teaching myself tatting, and it was so nice to know that I'm not the only one who thinks the traditional way of holding the ring is awkward! (I hold it there same way you do.)
I'm pretty good with textile arts, but tatting as a skill has eluded me for better than two years - until now. This series has finally taught me how to tatt! Thank you. (I do find the thumb-forefinger hold to be more comfortable, as I'm used to controlling yarn tension in kitting and crochet over my middle fingers and I find that my middle finger gets in the way when I try using it to hold the thread.)
My grandmother taught me as a 5...6 years old... but then alone I could not make it... Now with your explanation I'll try again... Lovely memories: thank you!
I'm an avid crocheter and hand sewer, I love doing things that are a bit more old fashioned. My granny taught me the basics of crochet and embroidery. I spent cold qintery days doing those two things in the spare bedroom. Tatting would be such a cool skill to hone. Will be exploring your videos in the future!
This was a random video that popped into view. I’ve always wanted to learn to tat. I actually have supplies but couldn’t figure it out so they are buried in my craft closet. After watching this I am going to give this a try once again. Thank you.
My father loved tatting. He did beautiful work. Sadly my brother tossed all of his beautiful things he tatted out with the trash without asking if anyone wanted anything after my dad's passing. I have a doily left of his work. I want to start in his honor
tatting is an art that has fascinated me since childhood - when i found a shuttle in the drawer of my mom's singer treadle machine. she never tatted so i never knew what that funny-looking-thing was for. but with no one to teach me, now i'm in my 8th decade and still never learned to tat. thank you! i do, however, have a problem with how you move the shuttle under/over - it looks like the thread goes through the shuttle. will slow down the speed and watch that way. again, thank you.
Thank you! The thread stays on the outside and slides between the shuttle and my thumb and then going back between the shuttle and my index finger, never through the actual shuttle itself. It’s a funny little maneuver, I hope that helped. 😊
I have my grandmother’s tatting supplies! She offered to teach the skill to me many years ago but I sadly did not take her up on it. Her little tatting bag is stashed on a closet shelf collecting dust, now I may attempt to make use of the items. Your video came up randomly on my RUclips feed and what a joy! Thank you for this video series.
Thank you so much! I got a tatting shuttle in a box at a yard sale that I didn't know was there until I got home. When I went back the next day, the gal that sold me the box of sewing supplies said it was her mothers, but she didn't have any idea how to use it. I gave up trying to learn how to use it because I couldn't find decent instructions, so back into the box it went, sadly forgotten. That was in 2010! I found that box the other day. Now that I see how to do it, I have to try it again. Your directions were clear and simple and just what I needed.
I'm a long time needleworker. Learned knitting in the 4th grade, then crochet. In my 50s I fell in love with Battenburg, which is almost entirely extinct. Have toyed with tatting.... but really prefer crochet lace, which, with fine thread, can really be magnificent. I've looked at bobbin lace, but find it so terribly inefficient. Whatever lace you want to create, you must be patient. With practice the movements become automatic and absolutely simply. It's a great thing to do to unwind..... very relaxing to do even while watching TV.
I am so glad I found your channel. I have loved tatting since I was little. I watched my grandmother, my mom and my aunt do this I started to learn this a couple of years ago for years. I put away my shuttle and just recently found it again. I can't wait to start practicing again. Thank you so much.
I have not started tatting yet, but I already know your tutorial will help immensly! What helps me most is having a series of steps that I can say out loud to keep track of what I'm doing, kind of like a little song, and that's exactly what you did. I'll be coming back to this once I have the equipment! 😁❤️
Thank you so much I was looking at a doily my great grandmother made and wondering how she crocheted it and I just realized that she was using this method
WOW!! I never thought I would see anyone actually tatting! My grandmother used to tat, crochet, knit, and a variety of needle work. She taught me how to crochet (which I thoroughly enjoy!) and knit (didn't stick with it), but I never really saw what she was doing when she was tatting. I might decide to venture out one day. Thank you sharing!
this is the best instruction i have seen when it comes to this art form. I have tried tatting before and thought i am never going to get this and you just make it easy to do it.
I tried learning tatting several years ago, and couldn't figure it out, so I gave up and moved onto knitting, embroidery, and quilting. This evening I started thinking about tatting again, so I decided to give it one more try. Thank goodness I found your videos! It finally clicked, and I understand it now! Thanks so much for making this videos that are easy to understand!
Thank you for this video. I bought shuttles long ago. I kept trying, but I could never get the ring to close. I bought a tatting needle. I can do that real good. I have made several book marks. Have a terrific week.
My Grandmother knitted, crocheted, sewed (all my play clothes out of patterned flour sacks) and tatted. I remember rolls and rolls of 2"-3" wide by ?? inches long of white tatting she made that were to be sent by our Congregational church to Africa(?) to the leper colonies. I don't remember her hands ever being idle. I still have a clown she made for me back in the early 1950s, as well as aprons, sweatshirts made into a cardigan and covered with rickrack and cutout cloth images, and beautiful tatted doilies. My Grandmother was a lovely, talented and industrious woman. She's been gone for over 50 years and I still miss her.
Thank you for teaching tatting with your ease of steps. My great-grandmother used to do tatting, but she said I was too young to learn when I asked her. So, I'm grateful to learn now and continue this wonderful tradition. Let's keep this lovely artwork alive!
My grandmother tried to teach several of us but all I did was make knots. I inherited a tatted bedspread. I know and understand the hours this bedspread took. I am saving these videos so after the holidays I want to sit down and try again. Thank you for making these video of a beautiful art that unfortunately disappearing.
My grandma showed me how to tat years ago but I put it down because I was in nursing school at the time and now I'm pleased to see this channel to teach me again.
I used to teach tatting in California. When I lived in Iceland I used to frequent a needlepoint/ yarn shop and became friends with the owner. I once mentioned tatting and she gave me about 3 yards of tatted lace. I still have that lace because I never found anything I wanted to use it on. I think now I may attach some to a table runner or doily. It so lovely.
Thank you SO MUCH for this introductory course! Your videos make getting started so simple. My 6 year old daughter and I have enjoyed watching them and then practicing what we're learning!
God bless you and thank you a thousand times. In my era, every young girl learned needlework, knitting, tatting, etc at her mother's or grandmother's knee. It's a wonder to me to see instructional videos such as yours in the modern world but also wonderful that you are preventing these homespun skills from disappearing. You have my sincere appreciation. 🎉 🏘 🎉
Avid chrocheter for over 40 years here. I've tried tatting several times thru the years but never could get the hang of it. Seeing your video, maybe I'll succeed this time! Thank you!
I'm 71 and my mother and grandmother knew how to tat. I never cared to learn, as I loved to knit, and my mother preferred crochet. Now I have these tatting shuttles left by them and occasionally think I should learn how to use them. The lace, which I've mostly seen on handkerchiefs, is so delicate. One plus for tatting is that it's such a tidy craft. The whole thing fits in your hand, no boxes of yarn and endless sizes of needles or hooks!
Thanks for making these videos! I made tatted daises about 40 years ago and I can't remember at all how to do it. The shuttle I had back then was my grandmother's, and the instructions I found in a magazine. i don't know where any of those things are now, but I ordered another shuttle so, yea!! I'm here for it! :)
I learned how to tat when i was in my middle 20’s, made a few things, then went to a different hobby, I have forgotten how to do it, with your videos maybe i will be able to do it again. You make it look easy. Thank you
Thank you. I learned many things from my mom but never tatting. I have a box full of her old equipment and pattern books, but watching how to do this just might be the ticket for me.
...I had an aunt, my mom's sister, a Sister of St Dominic (Dominicans) who did this ...I used to watch her as a very young boy (3-5) ...her finger would fly with the shuttle as she watched TV or said her daily prayers...I don;t recall her ever looking at her work, although she MUST have....to a kind of my age it was magical (I'm 71 now)...she could have a doily of handkerchief made in what seemed to me to be no time at all...Tatting is a lost art...I've never seen or heard of anyone else doing this since those days in the early 50s...
This makes ya think about family lace you inherited remembering the stories of who made it and how you were related...I didn't know what tatting was, now I do and it's got me interested , thanks!
My grandma’s,tried to teach me this yrs ago, all I ever got was frustrated because she did it so fast and I didn’t catch what she was doing over and over again. I’d tell her grandma slow down please, I want to learn this. She’d tell me Sandy, ‘you can’t be taught how to.”I’ve tried to teach myself many times on my own and no one ever did it slow enough so I could see what they were doing to learn. So thank you. I wish my grandmother was still alive,so I could show her yes I can learn this it’s not to hard for me to learn. When she died I got all of her Crochet hooks, Cross Stitch, Sewing Machine, quilting looms, Shuttle Cocks and Threads. And much more stuff. I loved my grandmother very much and enjoyed the gifts she left me. I also was left here artist’s easel with all her brushes. And books on painting. So again thank you ❤
My grandmother did this. She made several very large 'pictures' (I think dimensions are four foot by three foot) of the lords supper. She made one for all but one of her grandchildren if you counted the one she kept. Luckily while I am her youngest grandchild my cousin wanted a different piece of grandma's tatting, so I got the lord's supper she had.
Wow, this video is a great find for me! I am proficient in knitting, crocheting, sewing, embroidery, and cross stitching but never learned tatting. I remember an old lady, one of our neighbors when I was little, who used to tat. She wore a thin piece of black leather around one of her fingers. I guess it was for protection. Mrs. Duzik was her name. Long, long time ago!
I have been using your left hand position since I found your video a few years ago, and it's been so helpful. I have more room to maneuver the shuttle and it causes less stress in that hand. A real game changer for me. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.
Oh I’m so glad! I learned from my mother, who learned from her grandmother, so it may not be the modern “standard“ but I think it is so much more comfortable, and like you said, you have more room. I’m glad it’s working for you! 😊
oh i had been trying for some time to get the stitches to work. but only your tutorial helped. thank you a bunch! i love the towards you under-over rhyme it helped a lot.after trying for a while made my first successful loop. yay!
Holy Crap!!! I read so many books trying to learn this as a teen and I gave up. There was no actual person that could teach me. I actually understand it now!!! Gonna get out my shuttle and try again❤️
I want to say thank you for these videos. So beautifully filmed, and easy to understand. I tried to learn to tat about 20 years ago, from an old book of my grandmother's. Unfortunately, the book failed to explain that the loop must be flipped. I managed to form moveable loops, but not only were they upside down and backwards--the working thread was the immoveable thread, and the tail end was the one that could be pulled to close the loops. This made it impossible to make more than one loop. FFWD to last night. I picked up my tatting shuttle from 20 years ago (with the same thread on it!) and in a couple of minutes was tatting away. So fun! I really appreciate you sharing with us what generations of mothers in your family passed on to you. While I hope that our society swings back from "learning through youtube" to "learning through personal presence", I am still grateful that you *did share this video. All best.
Oh, that makes me so happy! I’ve been teaching people to tat for a very long time, and I have absolutely found that flipping the knot is the one spot that hangs most people up. It’s much easier to convey in person (even if it is over RUclips) than in books. Kind of a “picture is worth a thousand words” thing. 😊
oh neato!!! I have some older crochet magazines from 1989 and there all these tatting projects. I didn't know how to do tatting and you make it look kinda easy and fun! Thanks! Hugs from Ontario, Canada
Enjoyed your tatting instructions. I have been watching lots of tatting videos, your video is the best so far. "Under over flip the knot Over under flip the knot"...very helpful. Thank you!
My wife still tats and has made a beautiful three foot tatted lace tablecloth that took her years. She makes small starched motifs of snowflakes for our friends for the holidays.
New sub: I tried a few years ago but couldn't understand the directions so I gave up. Finding your UTube site is just what I needed, thank you. Now that I see how to start I hope to further my knowledge, looking forward to future videos
I tatted in the 80's and then again in the 2010's and in the last few years, I've never seen anyone put it around the hands like you do, where you twist the worst, I feel it is also a cause for for RSI. I wrap the thread around my working hands and slip it through with the shuttle, minimal movement.
I ended up here somehow from looking at movie info on Wikipedia; I happened across some movie called “Travels With My Aunt” A movie I have never seen before, or even heard of before. But in the movie it mentions “tatting” which I thought was tattooing. Looked up the definition or Wikipedia, then looked up an example on RUclips, and here I am. I admire anyone that can do something like this…… I would scream it’s too tedious…. I’m impressed at your work….. hats off to you. I think I will stick with tying my shoelaces…. That’s enough for me. In fact I usual wear boots….. lol lol You have such an amazing talent. Keep passing it along to others. Well done. 😃
I really love the details about how you actually ended up here! IDK about you, but this happens to me quite frequently with totally random situations! LOL I love the ability to be able to search the internet in this manner cuz I have actually learned so much about things I never even thought I'd learn about.
This is amazing! I’ve been trying to learn tatting (without having a teacher) for over 10 years now. It’s awkward and clumsy and makes my hand tense. And after watching this video, I understand why! I was holding the thread the traditional way. I’ve never even thought of doing it like this, but it’s so much better!
Yay! It’s certainly not the most common way, but it’s the way we’ve been holding it in my family going back to at least my great grandmother. I think it’s so much less awkward than the more traditional way. 😊 I’m glad it helped!
I learned to shuttle tat while living in England. Recently I tried needle tatting but much prefer shuttle tatting. I’ll be watching and enjoying all your videos. Thank you!
Now, after asking my great aunt to teach me tatting close to 40 years ago--and just not getting it--I watched this one video, and I think I will be able to do it. (I have to either find one of my old tatting needles or buy a new one to actually try it; but I'm pretty sure I finally understand the basic process.) Granted, I have learned basic crochet and knitting since then, so I'm sure that helped somewhat. But I'm so excited to finally try again! Thank you for this tutorial, and I will be watching the next one, too. :)
I have a friend who told me that she used to do this. I watched your video to get the general idea of what she was trying to describe to me and I have to say it looks similar to what I do for friendship bracelets. Not exact but similar.
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If you are still having trouble forming these knots, or getting them to behave as they should, I have a video with a closer, more detailed look at knot formation, especially getting it to “flip.” ruclips.net/video/fe322z_T8nU/видео.html
I gave up learning years ago. I heard it was a dying art that ladies in their 80's did, and I bought a shuttle. Couldn't find anyone teaching. Now I found you. Keep adding videos. Save the tatting art. Thank you so much.
Easier, perhaps, but "better" isn't necessarily true. They both have their use and are equally important.
I too wanted to learn tatting many years ago. As a matter of fact way back as a teenager. I couldn't find anyone who knew the art or was willing to teach it. Thank you so much. I'm excited to learn. I've watch part 1 video and it seem pretty straightforward. I'm going practice, practice and practice some more. Thank you again
Ladies in their 80s are a dying breed of women who knew the feminine arts. It makes me incredibly sad but I do see younger generations interested in crochet, etc. I'm 44 and can do most things, but want to learn tatting. A lot of talent in our forebears❤ Nice to see channels like this for those of us who no longer have grannies to ask.
junemullings5498 how'd it go?
Just heard about it and starting my class NOW
I tatted the lace on my wedding dress… and for my headress and veil. I learned from a 90 year old neighbour. So nice to see that you’re teaching others.
Wow, that's wonderful. 😊
i wish i could see that dress i bet it's beautiful
@@wyvrennemacdaniels6813 I sure thought so…
My grandmother did all those “old fashioned” crafts, including tatting (born 1900]. I have a cedar chest full of it. Over the years, I’ve given many pieces away, mostly as wedding gifts. I feel like I’m passing on a family heirloom.❤️🇨🇦
My grandmother showed me. I am 85 years ago. Just think how long ago that was as ☺️
I grow up with tatted doilies all over the place that were made by my great and great great grandma. My grandmother never liked how tedious it was and my mother never took the time to learn. I was fascinated with it my whole life but was too young to have learned when my great-grandmother died. I found a shutter at the craft store just the other day. I broke down and said it's time for me to finally pick up where two generation left off.
Wonderful! I’m so glad you’re learning it, especially when it was such a big part of your family. How great to have grown up with heirloom tatting all around. What a treasure!
Bless you
35 years ago I got married and wore me Mam's veil, now about 55 years old. Her sister tatted lace around the edge of the veil for me. It must have taken hours! Thank you for showing me. Loved the outtakes x
I had a great Aunt who started with a shuttle. I was always amazed at how quickly she would create the wonderful designs! As a child it seemed like magic. She died before I could learn to do her magic. Now, decades later, I think I might have the patience to learn. Your instructions are so easy to follow! Thank you for your time and patience!!
I am excited to see this video. I will have to watch and rewatch ,and sure it will take much effort. But,I learn best by watching someone demonstrate. So,thank you for this video.
@helenshriver8943 - My mother could tat at superspeed, too. Her shuttle just flew.
I do knitting, crochet, cross stitch, sewing, book binding, I used to do bead work but the looms were not for me so now I'm considering tatting looks pretty fun and relaxing thank you for making these tutorials I look forward to trying this
I’m 72 now and my grandma would put tatting lace on my doll clothes. It is the one skill that I didn’t learn from her and was always a lost art to me when she passed. Glad you are here to teach it to me.
I learned tatting in my early twenties around 50 years ago. I found it very special because I didn’t know much people who knew this craft. It was hard to find books with this techniek and no internet to make the search easier. When internet came in the nineties my technique improved and now with RUclips there is no end to learning new things. Thank you for showing how to tat. Today I am working on a doily from Jan Stawasz who has a special technique.
I'm 66 and have wanted to learn how to tat forever. I have memories of watching my grandma tat and being fascinated with it. I was about 6 at the time. I'm so happy to have found your series. Thank you for your vlog. I have ordered a shuttle and hope my arthritic hands will cooperate so I can learn.
Years ago I purchased a tatting kit for $1 at an estate sale. I rediscovered it in my garage yesterday and I'm so happy to find this video!
When I was a small girl and had learned to crochet a little, my mother mentioned tatting and I didn't know what that was. For some reason or another we didn't have a tatting shuttle, so mother just made one with cardboard. She was able to at least show me a little of how it worked. After I was grown, I bought a tatting shuttle and it has stayed in my sweing basket because I couldn't remember how I was supposed to use it. Glad to see someone instructing how to tat.
In the 1960s my grandmother tatted. She did small flower groupings and glued them on note cards packaged with envelopes. She then sold them to JC Penny. It truly is a lost art.
I love tatting, and the results it makes are so beautiful. Unfortunately my arms tendinitis flares up horribly when I try, even needle tatting, making it impossible to do for longer than a minute at a time. I love the fact that it's more "simple" lace, and something poorer people made for more utility oriented clothing. Thank goodness I can still do bobbin and crochet lace!
I'm there, too ... after a lifetime of all kinds of handcrafts. It is awful ... I'm going back to the doctor and demand some help?
I’ve been teaching crochet and tatting for over 40 years among several papercraft skills. I always take a small project with me on holidays and to save space in my suitcase I find tatting the most convenient of all crafts, it’s so portable I even put it in my pocket as it takes so little room, even less room than a paperback reading book. You can put it down and it won’t unravel as the ‘stitch’ is actually a knot almost the same method as fisherman’s net making. If a piece of tatting was cut in half only one stitch from each cut end will fray. It may be a very old craft that produce very beautiful and hard wearing piece of fabric and I hope some people will continue to practice this craft and keep it from dying out.
45 years ago bought a lovely little dolly in a antique store , lady told me it was tatting had never heard of tatting knew of other arts. Of course RUclips video had not been thought of. So even though not going to start this hobby at this point in my life thank you for showing me how my lovely now deffantly antique dolly that has been in frame was made.
My mother tried to teach me this art many years ago when I was little. She made some beautiful lace with it. Bless her, I drove her to distraction as I never managed to pick it up!
This is so cool. I just love the old fashioned crafts, home makers are a dying art. It’s such a shame. Thank you for the lessons. ❤
My grandmother, born in 1892, used to tat. In the 60s, she would send me notes with little tatted flowers glued to the top and leaves drawn in green ink. I wish I had known how precious that was. I don’t have any of them now. 😕
My mother was a wiz at tatting! She died recently at 95 years old, had promised to teach me but we never got around to it, what with all the things that needed to be done. I'm so glad I found this channel!
She must have sent you here❤
Some of my relatives did tatting when I was young. I always thought it was cool, but never tried it. Nice to find someone who can teach it. Thank you.
I'm an avid crocheter and hand sewer, I love doing things that are a bit more old fashioned. My granny taught me the basics of crochet and embroidery. I spent cold qintery days doing those two things in the spare bedroom. Tatting would be such a cool skill to hone. Will be exploring your videos in the future!
I do needle tatting, crochet, sewing, cross stitch, Japanese bookbinding and Indian beading. Never could figure the shuttle out but thanks to Aleene's Creative Living I have learned so much from them and the library 🥰😍😆 maybe I'll give the shuttle a whirl.
My mom taught me how to tat w hen I was 12 yrs. Old. I'm currently 67. She gave me her mothers shuttle. I lost my grandma's shuttle in a move. But I still have a pillow case with lace on it that Gramma made. The case and lace. I never met my grandparents. Deceased before I was born. My mom was born in 1914. Tatting is an ooold art. I'm happy to know it. Happy you brought it up. 🙂
I learnt to tat as a teenager to adorn my jeans. I loved it, but not heard it mentioned for over 30 years, I think I may have to do it a shuttle and revisit. Thank you
Im so thrilled to stumble on this site. My maternal grandmother was a wonderful tatter.She made a beautiful tatted bodice to put on my front of my wedding dress that my mother hand made for me.
Wow. How wonderful!
I have beautiful pieces of tatting my grandmother made I found them in her sewing machine, which I inherited her old treadle sewing machine is very rare. It was only made for two years in between before the war, and after the war World War II, I have tried and tried to learn to tat I am 69 years old and this is still on my bucket list so I hear I am watching your video. Getting ready to try again cross your fingers and wish me luck.
Good luck! If you have any trouble forming the knots, make sure to see my video called "Flipping Tatting Knots." In it I focus on just the knot formation and getting the knot to flip using really thick yarn, close shots, and a giant shuttle so it's easier to see. 😊 You can do it!
This video was A GOD-SEND! Thank you for having clear, easy to understand instructions AND a video that actually showed what you were doing with the tools! I'm teaching myself tatting, and it was so nice to know that I'm not the only one who thinks the traditional way of holding the ring is awkward! (I hold it there same way you do.)
I'm pretty good with textile arts, but tatting as a skill has eluded me for better than two years - until now. This series has finally taught me how to tatt! Thank you. (I do find the thumb-forefinger hold to be more comfortable, as I'm used to controlling yarn tension in kitting and crochet over my middle fingers and I find that my middle finger gets in the way when I try using it to hold the thread.)
My grandmother taught me as a 5...6 years old... but then alone I could not make it... Now with your explanation I'll try again... Lovely memories: thank you!
I'm an avid crocheter and hand sewer, I love doing things that are a bit more old fashioned. My granny taught me the basics of crochet and embroidery. I spent cold qintery days doing those two things in the spare bedroom. Tatting would be such a cool skill to hone. Will be exploring your videos in the future!
As a young aspiring soon to be 15 year old boy, I’d really like to try tatting seeing how I already crochet, & knit. Thanks for this tutorial!
a great refresher as I haven’t done this in 30 years. thank you❤
Thank you for the cute bloopers showing us that family is meant for loving and laughing with, always. ❤
This was a random video that popped into view. I’ve always wanted to learn to tat. I actually have supplies but couldn’t figure it out so they are buried in my craft closet. After watching this I am going to give this a try once again. Thank you.
My father loved tatting. He did beautiful work. Sadly my brother tossed all of his beautiful things he tatted out with the trash without asking if anyone wanted anything after my dad's passing. I have a doily left of his work. I want to start in his honor
tatting is an art that has fascinated me since childhood - when i found a shuttle in the drawer of my mom's singer treadle machine. she never tatted so i never knew what that funny-looking-thing was for. but with no one to teach me, now i'm in my 8th decade and still never learned to tat. thank you! i do, however, have a problem with how you move the shuttle under/over - it looks like the thread goes through the shuttle. will slow down the speed and watch that way. again, thank you.
Thank you! The thread stays on the outside and slides between the shuttle and my thumb and then going back between the shuttle and my index finger, never through the actual shuttle itself. It’s a funny little maneuver, I hope that helped. 😊
I have my grandmother’s tatting supplies! She offered to teach the skill to me many years ago but I sadly did not take her up on it. Her little tatting bag is stashed on a closet shelf collecting dust, now I may attempt to make use of the items. Your video came up randomly on my RUclips feed and what a joy! Thank you for this video series.
Thank you so much! I got a tatting shuttle in a box at a yard sale that I didn't know was there until I got home. When I went back the next day, the gal that sold me the box of sewing supplies said it was her mothers, but she didn't have any idea how to use it. I gave up trying to learn how to use it because I couldn't find decent instructions, so back into the box it went, sadly forgotten. That was in 2010! I found that box the other day. Now that I see how to do it, I have to try it again. Your directions were clear and simple and just what I needed.
I'm a long time needleworker. Learned knitting in the 4th grade, then crochet. In my 50s I fell in love with Battenburg, which is almost entirely extinct. Have toyed with tatting.... but really prefer crochet lace, which, with fine thread, can really be magnificent. I've looked at bobbin lace, but find it so terribly inefficient. Whatever lace you want to create, you must be patient. With practice the movements become automatic and absolutely simply. It's a great thing to do to unwind..... very relaxing to do even while watching TV.
This is what I was doing wrong. It’s like a one string loom. Very well explained.
I am so glad I found your channel. I have loved tatting since I was little. I watched my grandmother, my mom and my aunt do this I started to learn this a couple of years ago for years. I put away my shuttle and just recently found it again. I can't wait to start practicing again. Thank you so much.
I have not started tatting yet, but I already know your tutorial will help immensly! What helps me most is having a series of steps that I can say out loud to keep track of what I'm doing, kind of like a little song, and that's exactly what you did. I'll be coming back to this once I have the equipment! 😁❤️
Thank you so much I was looking at a doily my great grandmother made and wondering how she crocheted it and I just realized that she was using this method
WOW!! I never thought I would see anyone actually tatting! My grandmother used to tat, crochet, knit, and a variety of needle work. She taught me how to crochet (which I thoroughly enjoy!) and knit (didn't stick with it), but I never really saw what she was doing when she was tatting. I might decide to venture out one day. Thank you sharing!
this is the best instruction i have seen when it comes to this art form. I have tried tatting before and thought i am never going to get this and you just make it easy to do it.
I’m so thankful for this video! I just found tatting shuttles and patterns from a thrift store and I’m so excited to learn something new
I tried learning tatting several years ago, and couldn't figure it out, so I gave up and moved onto knitting, embroidery, and quilting. This evening I started thinking about tatting again, so I decided to give it one more try. Thank goodness I found your videos! It finally clicked, and I understand it now! Thanks so much for making this videos that are easy to understand!
Oh wonderful! 😊
Thank you for this video. I bought shuttles long ago. I kept trying, but I could never get the ring to close. I bought a tatting needle. I can do that real good. I have made several book marks. Have a terrific week.
My Grandmother knitted, crocheted, sewed (all my play clothes out of patterned flour sacks) and tatted. I remember rolls and rolls of 2"-3" wide by ?? inches long of white tatting she made that were to be sent by our Congregational church to Africa(?) to the leper colonies. I don't remember her hands ever being idle. I still have a clown she made for me back in the early 1950s, as well as aprons, sweatshirts made into a cardigan and covered with rickrack and cutout cloth images, and beautiful tatted doilies. My Grandmother was a lovely, talented and industrious woman. She's been gone for over 50 years and I still miss her.
Ja sam iz Hrvatske.Hvala ti na pomoći.Presretna sam jer nakon 2 sata učenja ovdje, uspjela sam uraditi kružić.Hvala ti.
Wonderful!
Thank you for teaching tatting with your ease of steps. My great-grandmother used to do tatting, but she said I was too young to learn when I asked her. So, I'm grateful to learn now and continue this wonderful tradition. Let's keep this lovely artwork alive!
My grandmother tried to teach several of us but all I did was make knots. I inherited a tatted bedspread. I know and understand the hours this bedspread took. I am saving these videos so after the holidays I want to sit down and try again. Thank you for making these video of a beautiful art that unfortunately disappearing.
My grandma showed me how to tat years ago but I put it down because I was in nursing school at the time and now I'm pleased to see this channel to teach me again.
I used to teach tatting in California. When I lived in Iceland I used to frequent a needlepoint/ yarn shop and became friends with the owner. I once mentioned tatting and she gave me about 3 yards of tatted lace. I still have that lace because I never found anything I wanted to use it on. I think now I may attach some to a table runner or doily. It so lovely.
Your hand movements, the grace, the elegance, it's simply hypnotic!
My grandma and her sisters all made tatted lace, so I inherited a bunch of supplies. I'm excited to pick up one of these vintage shuttles and learn!
Thank you SO MUCH for this introductory course! Your videos make getting started so simple. My 6 year old daughter and I have enjoyed watching them and then practicing what we're learning!
God bless you and thank you a thousand times. In my era, every young girl learned needlework, knitting, tatting, etc at her mother's or grandmother's knee. It's a wonder to me to see instructional videos such as yours in the modern world but also wonderful that you are preventing these homespun skills from disappearing. You have my sincere appreciation. 🎉 🏘 🎉
Avid chrocheter for over 40 years here. I've tried tatting several times thru the years but never could get the hang of it. Seeing your video, maybe I'll succeed this time! Thank you!
I LOVE tatting!! Have done it for many years now!! So many beautiful things that can be made with tatting shuttle!! 🤗💕
Nice to meet a fellow lace maker! 😊
I'm 71 and my mother and grandmother knew how to tat. I never cared to learn, as I loved to knit, and my mother preferred crochet. Now I have these tatting shuttles left by them and occasionally think I should learn how to use them. The lace, which I've mostly seen on handkerchiefs, is so delicate. One plus for tatting is that it's such a tidy craft. The whole thing fits in your hand, no boxes of yarn and endless sizes of needles or hooks!
Thanks for making these videos! I made tatted daises about 40 years ago and I can't remember at all how to do it. The shuttle I had back then was my grandmother's, and the instructions I found in a magazine. i don't know where any of those things are now, but I ordered another shuttle so, yea!! I'm here for it! :)
I learned how to tat when i was in my middle 20’s, made a few things, then went to a different hobby, I have forgotten how to do it, with your videos maybe i will be able to do it again. You make it look easy. Thank you
Thank you. I learned many things from my mom but never tatting. I have a box full of her old equipment and pattern books, but watching how to do this just might be the ticket for me.
...I had an aunt, my mom's sister, a Sister of St Dominic (Dominicans) who did this ...I used to watch her as a very young boy (3-5) ...her finger would fly with the shuttle as she watched TV or said her daily prayers...I don;t recall her ever looking at her work, although she MUST have....to a kind of my age it was magical (I'm 71 now)...she could have a doily of handkerchief made in what seemed to me to be no time at all...Tatting is a lost art...I've never seen or heard of anyone else doing this since those days in the early 50s...
This makes ya think about family lace you inherited remembering the stories of who made it and how you were related...I didn't know what tatting was, now I do and it's got me interested , thanks!
I knit, crochet, & sew a little. I think I found a new hobby thank you 🙂 much love from Colorado & God bless
My grandma’s,tried to teach me this yrs ago, all I ever got was frustrated because she did it so fast and I didn’t catch what she was doing over and over again. I’d tell her grandma slow down please, I want to learn this. She’d tell me Sandy, ‘you can’t be taught how to.”I’ve tried to teach myself many times on my own and no one ever did it slow enough so I could see what they were doing to learn. So thank you. I wish my grandmother was still alive,so I could show her yes I can learn this it’s not to hard for me to learn. When she died I got all of her Crochet hooks, Cross Stitch, Sewing Machine, quilting looms, Shuttle Cocks and Threads. And much more stuff. I loved my grandmother very much and enjoyed the gifts she left me. I also was left here artist’s easel with all her brushes. And books on painting. So again thank you ❤
My grandmother did this. She made several very large 'pictures' (I think dimensions are four foot by three foot) of the lords supper. She made one for all but one of her grandchildren if you counted the one she kept. Luckily while I am her youngest grandchild my cousin wanted a different piece of grandma's tatting, so I got the lord's supper she had.
Thank you for this video. I will keep watching to learn and help keep this craft alive.
Thank you so much! I wanted to try for quite some time now, and your video just reminded me that I need to buy a shuttle!
Thank you! Yes, do it! Tatting is such a fun and sweet little lace. 😊
Wow, this video is a great find for me! I am proficient in knitting, crocheting, sewing, embroidery, and cross stitching but never learned tatting. I remember an old lady, one of our neighbors when I was little, who used to tat. She wore a thin piece of black leather around one of her fingers. I guess it was for protection. Mrs. Duzik was her name. Long, long time ago!
Having a thin piece of leather on your finger is a great idea. I have warn shallow grooves in my finger from thread. I'll have to try that out. 😊
I have been using your left hand position since I found your video a few years ago, and it's been so helpful. I have more room to maneuver the shuttle and it causes less stress in that hand. A real game changer for me. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.
Oh I’m so glad! I learned from my mother, who learned from her grandmother, so it may not be the modern “standard“ but I think it is so much more comfortable, and like you said, you have more room. I’m glad it’s working for you! 😊
oh i had been trying for some time to get the stitches to work. but only your tutorial helped. thank you a bunch! i love the towards you under-over rhyme it helped a lot.after trying for a while made my first successful loop. yay!
Wonderful! 😊
Holy Crap!!! I read so many books trying to learn this as a teen and I gave up. There was no actual person that could teach me.
I actually understand it now!!! Gonna get out my shuttle and try again❤️
If you get stuck, I made a video detailing how to get the knot to flip called, "Flipping Tatting Knots." It might help.
Thank you! My mom used to tat and I have been intimidated by it, you have made it do-able to me!
Wonderful! 😁
I have a vintage shift trimmed in hand tatted lace and I’m so excited for this video to be able to try it out myself
Thank you so much for showing this. I have tried for years to get someone to teach me and now have found your video.
FIRST TUTORIAL TO TEACH HOW TO FLIP THE KNOT!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH YOU'VE HELPED
Yay! I’m so glad. 😊 I also have one that takes an even closer look into flipping the knot, but it sounds like you got it!
omg the outtakes are so adorable
Thanks! They’re pretty sweet. 😊
Thank you for that excellent , clear demonstration. I've got a few shuttles I inherited from my mum which I want to use to make pretty edgings.
My Grandmother made some amazing pieces! Oh how I miss watching her do this while she watched Days of our Lives!
I want to say thank you for these videos. So beautifully filmed, and easy to understand. I tried to learn to tat about 20 years ago, from an old book of my grandmother's. Unfortunately, the book failed to explain that the loop must be flipped. I managed to form moveable loops, but not only were they upside down and backwards--the working thread was the immoveable thread, and the tail end was the one that could be pulled to close the loops. This made it impossible to make more than one loop. FFWD to last night. I picked up my tatting shuttle from 20 years ago (with the same thread on it!) and in a couple of minutes was tatting away. So fun! I really appreciate you sharing with us what generations of mothers in your family passed on to you. While I hope that our society swings back from "learning through youtube" to "learning through personal presence", I am still grateful that you *did share this video. All best.
Oh, that makes me so happy! I’ve been teaching people to tat for a very long time, and I have absolutely found that flipping the knot is the one spot that hangs most people up. It’s much easier to convey in person (even if it is over RUclips) than in books. Kind of a “picture is worth a thousand words” thing. 😊
oh neato!!! I have some older crochet magazines from 1989 and there all these tatting projects. I didn't know how to do tatting and you make it look kinda easy and fun! Thanks! Hugs from Ontario, Canada
Enjoyed your tatting instructions. I have been watching lots of tatting videos, your video is the best so far. "Under over flip the knot Over under flip the knot"...very helpful. Thank you!
My wife still tats and has made a beautiful three foot tatted lace tablecloth that took her years. She makes small starched motifs of snowflakes for our friends for the holidays.
I've wanted to learn this a long time ago. Your video is so simple to follow and really clear. Thank you for sharing this skill.
New sub: I tried a few years ago but couldn't understand the directions so I gave up. Finding your UTube site is just what I needed, thank you. Now that I see how to start I hope to further my knowledge, looking forward to future videos
I tatted in the 80's and then again in the 2010's and in the last few years, I've never seen anyone put it around the hands like you do, where you twist the worst, I feel it is also a cause for for RSI. I wrap the thread around my working hands and slip it through with the shuttle, minimal movement.
I ended up here somehow from looking at movie info on Wikipedia; I happened across some movie called “Travels With My Aunt” A movie I have never seen before, or even heard of before. But in the movie it mentions “tatting” which I thought was tattooing. Looked up the definition or Wikipedia, then looked up an example on RUclips, and here I am. I admire anyone that can do something like this…… I would scream it’s too tedious….
I’m impressed at your work….. hats off to you. I think I will stick with tying my shoelaces…. That’s enough for me. In fact I usual wear boots….. lol lol
You have such an amazing talent. Keep passing it along to others. Well done. 😃
I really love the details about how you actually ended up here! IDK about you, but this happens to me quite frequently with totally random situations! LOL I love the ability to be able to search the internet in this manner cuz I have actually learned so much about things I never even thought I'd learn about.
I have always wanted to give tatting a try. Accidentally came across your video. I will have to collect the items I need and will give it a try.
This is amazing! I’ve been trying to learn tatting (without having a teacher) for over 10 years now. It’s awkward and clumsy and makes my hand tense. And after watching this video, I understand why! I was holding the thread the traditional way. I’ve never even thought of doing it like this, but it’s so much better!
Yay! It’s certainly not the most common way, but it’s the way we’ve been holding it in my family going back to at least my great grandmother. I think it’s so much less awkward than the more traditional way. 😊 I’m glad it helped!
I learned to shuttle tat while living in England. Recently I tried needle tatting but much prefer shuttle tatting. I’ll be watching and enjoying all your videos. Thank you!
I inherited my mother's shuttle. Will give this a go. Thank you.
I was so interested in seeing this. My grandmother used to tat and I could kick myself for never learning from her. It's truly a lost art.
I have always wanted to learn to tat. Your video came up in my feed today it seems so easy. I’m going to look for some shuttles so I can learn.
Now, after asking my great aunt to teach me tatting close to 40 years ago--and just not getting it--I watched this one video, and I think I will be able to do it. (I have to either find one of my old tatting needles or buy a new one to actually try it; but I'm pretty sure I finally understand the basic process.) Granted, I have learned basic crochet and knitting since then, so I'm sure that helped somewhat. But I'm so excited to finally try again! Thank you for this tutorial, and I will be watching the next one, too. :)
I have a friend who told me that she used to do this. I watched your video to get the general idea of what she was trying to describe to me and I have to say it looks similar to what I do for friendship bracelets. Not exact but similar.