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TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Equipment needed for tatting
- Basic Tatting Instructions
- Diagram for six-sided blocking
- Part One- Just Rings
- Tatted Earrings
- Star Suncatcher
- Ice Crystal
- Part Two- Easy Chains
- Flower with One Picot In the Center
- Small Rosette
- Small Snowflakes and Flowers
- Large Rosette
- Small Heart Edging or Insertion
- Large Heart
- Five-Inch Snowflake
- Tatted Flower Pin
- Snowflake Ornament
- Lacy Square
- Circle-in-a-Square
- Fancy Snowflake
- 8-Inch Doily
- Necklace
- Oval Doily
- Lacy Table Mat
- Flying Disc Doily
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Title: Easy Tatting
Author/Designer: Rozella F. Linden
Format/Publication Date: TPB:1999
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, NY
Page Count: 32
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0486299864
SUMMARY- I judge tatting instructions in large part by how far they are broken down and how many illustrations are with them - I wouldn't try to learn tatting from this book alone. But there are some really lovely(and simple) patterns here that would be very appealing and manageable for a new tatter.
I got a lovely e-mail from Ruth, and permission to pass information on from it(Thank you, Ruth!):
FIRSTLY:
Mrs. Perry has a new website: https://tatting.wordpress.com/
SECONDLY:
"My pen name, Rozella Florence Linden, was chosen because I did not want to publish a book with my x husband's last name. It is my grandmother's first name, my mother's middle name and my sister's favorite tree. Both of my grandmothers tatted, and my sister and I learned from our mother. For my first 20 years or so everyone I knew who tatted was in my family, or had been taught by someone in my family. Tatting was a "lost art" and almost no one knew how to do it.
I had promised my grandmother that I would not let the art of tatting disappear. I think I have done my part, but back in the 1950s when I learned there were NO tatting books available, just a few booklets fromt he thread companies and pattern in Workbasket. Patterns were passed down from person to person, and many tatters just kept a notebook of what they knew how to tat. I tried to find a tatting book through the library loan program at my local public library and was told there were NO books on tatting available anywhere. Things have changed, and I truly enjoy seeing all the many wonderful books available today. I have tried to encourage new designers, and new tatters."
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