Victorian Tatting the Weldon’s Way: Round Loop Edging

Weldon’s Practical Needlework houses a wealth of information on Victorian tatting. Here’s our 16th installment in this series fromWeldon’s Practical Needlework, Volume 4. The following are instructions for how to tat a “Round Loop Edging.” The material is reproduced here just as it appeared in England in 1889. No alterations or corrections were made.

Illustrations from _Weldon’s Practical Needlework_, Volume 4.

Round Loop Edging

PROCURE crochet cotton of a nice medium size, and thread the shuttle. Make a loop with the shuttle thread, work 12 double stitches, 1 picot, 3 double, and draw up; reverse the work, take a second thread, and looping it round the fingers, do 7 double, 1 picot, 7 double, join to the picot of the round ring; reverse the work, make a loop with the shuttle thread, work 12 double, 1 picot, 3 double, draw up; reverse, make a loop with the second thread, do 7 double, 1 picot, 7 double, join to the picot of the round ring, and continue. A crochet heading is worked along the top of the edging, 1 double crochet in the picot of the scalloped bar, 3 chain, l double crochet in the next picot, and repeat.

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