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title: "Tatting"
description: "Tatting is a lace made of rings and chains of knots, worked with a small shuttle or a needle."
type: Glossary
url: https://teazle.art/glossary/tatting
published: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-14
author: "The Teazle editors"
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# Tatting

*Tatting is a lace made of rings and chains of knots, worked with a small shuttle or a needle.*

Tatting is built from double stitches, really pairs of half-hitch knots, slid along a core thread to form rings and arcs, with tiny loops called picots joining them. It makes strong, delicate edgings and doilies.


## Sources

1. [Tatting (AAT 300053641)](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300053641). Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
2. [Tatting (Q498133)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q498133). Wikidata

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