Tatting

 Tatting - nodular technique of weaving lace by hand with the help of special shuttles or needles. They are decorated with a variety of clothing items, create napkins, tablecloths, bedspreads. Technique is widely used for the manufacture of jewelry: earrings, bracelets, necklaces, pendants. For ruching fit any thread: iris, floss, cotton №10, 20, 30, linen, wool. When creating jewelry in lace weave beads, beads, various stones. Tatting weaving with two shuttles, which are placed in the wound on the bobbin thread. One hook make closed lace details, other Broken. Technique consists in a double node of the forward and reverse loops. As a result of a combination of open and closed elements obtained air lace. Historians suggest that the technique of weaving was created in ancient Egypt and China, where spread to Europe in the XVI-XVII centuries, and especially popular in the XVIII-XIX centuries. In different countries, tatting is called differently: French lace, Italian lace, etc..n. In Russia, it became known under the name of French lace, was held in high esteem to the XX century. In the 60 years tatting technique began to revive in Europe, and in the 80s about it and remembered in Russia. Based on the classic tatting technique recently appeared Ankars.