TATTING INSTRUCTIONS
Belding Bros. ∓mp; Company
MANUFACTURERS OF
Carlson Currier
GRAND PRIZE SPOOL AND EMBROIDERY SILKS
     Abbreviations used: d s. double stitch; p, picot or purl; *, repeat from preceding *; r, ring; ch, chain; l p, long picot; c l, clover leaf.

     THE MATERIALS for making tatting are a strongly twisted Carlson Currier Pure Tatting Silk and a shuttle.

     SHUTTLES. The tatting shuttle consists of two oval blades, pointed at both ends, and joined together in the middle. A good shuttle contributes materially to rapid and perfect exection of the work, and attention should be paid in its selection. In filling the shuttle, be careful not to wind on too much silk at once, or the blades will spread open at the ends and the silk become soiled by sonstant conact with the worker's hands.

     FIRST POSITION OF THE HANDS (Fig. 1).

The construction of the knots or stitches appears at first sight to present great difficulties, but will be easily mastered by attention to the illustrations given. ONe thing to be constantly borne in mind is that when the right hand has passed the shuttle through the loop, it must stop with a sudden jerk and hold the silk tightly extended until the left hand has drawn up the knot.

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