Tatting Terms

Here are some tatting terms with their equivalents.

The list is not exhaustive; please email me if you can add more.

I'd also like to hear from you if you think any of these are not equivalents, and why.

Ball thread: chain thread, auxillary thread, working thread.
Block tatting: tally tatting.
Bridge/bridging: knotless method.
Cluny tatting: leaf tatting, petal tatting.
Double stitch: cow hitch, half-hitch, lark's head.
Foundation thread: anchor thread, knot bearer, ring thread, running thread, shuttle thread, carrier thread.
Hook tatting: tatting with a needle
Josephine chain (jc): spiral chain, twist stitch.
Link loop: mock picot, simulated picot, start loop.
Mignonette stitch: net tatting.
Mock ring: false ring.
Oeillet: dot, rosette, josephine knot.
Picot sticks: pearl sticks, spacers.
Plain stitch: french stitch, half stitch, single stitch, under stitch.
Purl stitch: english stitch, over stitch.
Quatrefoil: diamond.
Ring: loop, oval, circle, lozenge.
Set stitch: cord, lattice, node, ric-rac, ripple, ruffle, victorian sets.
Split-ring tatting: wrong-way tatting.
Split-ring, mousehole ring.
Transfer: capsize, click, flip, turn.
Trefoil: clover.
Pearl tatting, two-edged chain.
Split chain, hooked chain.

The list was originally compiled by Lisa Armstrong from published sources and has been added to by various people.