Sunday, February 28, 2016
Element-al Approach to Designing
I've finally made some progress on a project I've wanted to do for ages. It's a resource for those of us who want to design tatting. If you think about it, tatting is made up of ring shapes (usually a ring), curves (usually chains), and straight lines (traditionally the bare thread). So with those basic elements in mind, what can we substitute or modify to get a new look? Georgia Seitz is going to share my handouts in the online classes tomorrow. I invite you to visit the links she has provided at http://www.georgiaseitz.com/2016/2016index.html and even attend one of the class sessions if you can. I value your input, so email me or post here if you think of something that should be added. It is a resource I want to make freely available to all, possibly even in a format that you can modify to reflect your personal preferences. One handout contains ideas for modification or substitution. The other includes links to techniques and patterns for practice or example. In some cases, there are lots of sources for the technique, and my document can't reasonably include them all. For that reason, I'm thinking it might be good to make it customizable. I'm still thinking. Remember it's a work in progress.
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3 comments:
Your compilation & categorisation is spectacular. So much hard work !!!
Thank you so much for sharing these. It has already become my ready reckoner :-)
You've organized everything so well. I have to admit that even though I am a veteran tatter, you have listed techniques I don't know.
It's hard to keep up with all of the new techniques. I'm so glad someone is already finding it a useful tool.
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