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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Introduction
  • Terminology & Clarification Section:
    • Terminology
    • Abbreviations
    • Thread Terminology Chart
    • Turn vs Reverse Work
    • Basic Stitch Chart
    • Stitch Formation Chart
    • Joining
    • Joins Chart
    • Impeccable Front Side Chart
  • ENDS BE GONE Tatting Strategies Section:
    • DNC Nee CTM
    • Technique No. 1 - Do Not Cut
    • ATTACHING NEW THREAD Chart
    • Technique No. 2A - Loop-Over Connection
    • Technique No. 2B - Planned Thread Addition
    • Technique No. 2C - Unplanned Thread Addition
    • Technique No. 2E, F, G - Replacing Ball Thread
    • Technique No. 2H - Connection on Split Rings
    • CONCEALING THREAD ENDS:
    • Technique No. 3 - Tat over Tails
    • Technique No. 3A - Short Tails
    • Technique No. 3B - Leaving a Long Tail
    • Technique No. 4 - Pulling in Ends
    • STRATEGIES FOR UNCUT MOBILITY
    • Technique No. 5 - Mock Picot/Lock Stitch
    • Technique No. 6 - Split Ring
    • Technique No. 7 - Split Chain
    • Technique No. 8 - Shoelace Trick
  • PLANNING A NEW PATH
  • ARTICLES:
    • The Tatted Picot
    • Repeated Stacked Picots
    • Extended Picots
    • Excellence in Tatting
  • The Handout That Started It All
  • About the Author

Title: Impeccable Tatting
Author/Designer: Judi Banashek
Format/Publication Date: Sprlbnd:1996
Publisher: JB Enterprises, Oklahoma City, OK
Page Count: 46
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: None

SUMMARY- There is tons of great information packed into these pages - it is NOT a pattern book, but a technical manual meant to help the tatter improve the look of their tatting. This is also not a beginner's manual - she starts by expecting you to have a solid grasp of the basics. Most of the techniques presented are for avoiding any cut-and-tie of threads when possible. Some of her strategies for connecting new threads I had not seen before or overlooked. She gives great charts and illustrations throughout. If you are fortunate enough to run across a copy of this book, I'd snatch it up. Or you can do what I did and borrow a copy of it from the IOLI Library. It's books like this that frustrate me because they do not stay in print, but provide excellent information that should be on every tatter's shelf.