Description
Learning The Beautiful Art of Tatting
Fee: FREE (seats are limited, please register by adding to cart and proceeding thru checkout process)
Instructor: Chris Hopkins-Spidell
Date & Time: 02/23/2026 2:30pm-4:30pm?
Description:
Tatting is a type of lace using a shuttle, thread and crochet hook.
See Sample of a tatting shuttle (2nd photo)
In this beginner class, you will learn this history and about the different types of threads used in making tatting lace.
You will learn how to hold your shuttle and thread first, and then practice making knots, rings and picots using your shuttle thread.
The picots (the tiny loops seen in the third picture) are both decorative, giving the design a lacy look, or the picots are used to join one section to another (see where the rings join together in the third picture)
Once you master making rings and picots, you will learn how to make a butterfly using just your shuttle thread.
To wrap up the class, we will practice making chains in which we learn to work with two threads (see the ring on the very top of the Christmas ornament).
Supply List:
All supplies included
Artist Bio:
Chris is a fiber artist who works on reproduction and restoration of antique fiber art pieces. Chris is a member of the New England Lace Group visiting Reno for the next few months and is a graduate student at the Rhode Island School of Design.