"How to Tat" Online Resources

Someone emailed me about learning to tat but my reply keeps bouncing back so I thought this would be a good place to post it, for her and anyone else! Some of the links I had put together and then Georgia had a nice compilation too.

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Linda, this is the information I send to people who want to learn to tat. I highly recommend the Japanese site (4th link down) for visual clarity and Georgia Seitz's online class (the last 2 links).
Good luck! And Thank You for the compliment!
:-) Gina
Nata #67

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Sharon Briggs was the first to take advantage of this form of instruction on the web and she also covers many of the more advanced methods http://www.gagechek.com/slb/demo/demo.html

Lorah Gross Techniques in pictures and video. A video with each step but they do take awhile to load even with a fast connection. http://www.tatting.net/techniques.html

Knot Transfer Videos (also known as the flip) http://personalpages.tds.net/~tatting/video/video.html

Japanese text but good video - click on ring, chain & Split Ring http://teaange.hp.infoseek.co.jp/tatting/tattingf.htm

From Joy, another way of manipulating the threads BUT please note she is teaching the moves in reverse order to what is normally used today.
The half stitches will show the double stitch split from the front and the picots too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_JGTCju4G8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrmGqkInEXs&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3swnjGMC9Y&mode=related&search=

Betty Fosters Needle Tatting
http://www.hhtatting.com/learn.html

Carrie Carlson's includes instructions for Left Hand & some videos. The diagrams here are what I found when I looked for tatting on the internet in 1997. Wish there had been videos then too! http://personalpages.tds.net/~tatting/index.html

Cherie Wheeler ~ how to shuttle tat
http://www.vintagetatting.net16.net
eHow And how to prepare to tat
http://www.ehow.com/how_16380_prepare-tat.html

Jen's Tat-ra Sutra - Learn how to tat
http://www.geocities.com/tatrasutra/how2tat1.html

Lisa Trumble's Basic Tatting
http://www.thisntat.com/lessons1.html

Marilee double stitch instruction
http://www.geocities.com/yarnplayer/double_stitch.html

PamDe's Needle Tatting
http://www.geocities.com/pamela+devries/index.html

LaRae's Picotnet basic instructions
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/5082/TatOnline/tatting_instruction.htm

Roger's Needle Tatting Two instructions for almost all techniques http://groups.msn.com/NeedleTattingTwo

SJoys - Rings around the world - instructions for kids
http://www.georgiaseitz.com/classes2001/fall2001/joy4.html

Tammy Rogers - Needle Tatting techniques listed on the right http://www.frontiernet.net/~TammyRodgers/index.shtml

And for about 8 years Georgia has been doing her ON LINE class. Covering many if not all techniques. You can link the past years lessons from here and register to join the class.
http://www.georgiaseitz.com/

She also now has three people who teach the 4 week beginners class on her behalf.
http://www.angelfire.com/planet/newtatters/lesson1.html

Plus there are several YouTube videos - just put "tatting" in the search box, and I am sure there are even more that have appeared since this list was compiled.