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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Definition of Split Ring Tatting
- Exercise for practicing Split Ring
- How to Tat a Split Ring
- Abbreviations
- Alphabet
- Cross and/or Doily
- Snowflake
- Collar
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Title: The Joy of Split Ring Tatting
Author/Designer: Mary Sue Kuhn
Format/Publication Date: TPB: 1984
Publisher: Self, West Des Moines, Iowa
Page Count: 16
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: None;
SUMMARY- There are very detailed instructions and great illustrations for learning the split ring technique. This is one of those key books that should be in everyone's tatting library and had a profound influence on the direction that tatting technique took. Split ring has been around since Anne Orr gave instructions for the technique in 1923. Since Anne Orr's name on her line of books was used as a publishing house name and she did not give credit to her large stable of designers, we will never know who actually developed the technique. It is a known fact, though, that it was Mary Sue who popularized the technique with this book, and brought it to notable designers' attention like Georgia Seitz and Teri Dusenbury. It is such a staple now of modern notation that it is difficult to find modern books that don't use it. Before "Joy of Split Ring Tatting", it was virtually nonexistant.
She gives a great monogram alphabet to practice split ring with, as well as a couple other distinctive patterns that heavily employs it - so there's no excuse not to be confident by the time you're done.
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