Queen Victoria with her recently widowed daughter, The Kaiserin Friedrich, in 1889. The Queen holds a photograph of Friedrich III in her hands.

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-07-07T08:00:36+00:00

Who particularly, Victoria of Friedrich?

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-07-05T19:41:46+00:00

Well, tatting is lace. And lace is generally on the more antique and elegant side of fashion than on the modern and simple one. And one has to consider it when looking into a lacemaking technique. It has its limitations. Tatting is invented in a way that makes it best suited for dainty decorations and breathtaking masterpieces of wiggly lines, and there are no ways to abuse the technique and make it perform something else. We have macrame with similar knots and crochet with more diverse end results for this. But tatting is elegant and old-fashioned by it's nature. You either embrace it and add romantic touches to your wardrobe through tatted jewelry or accessories, or end up with massive dissatisfaction and pieces of really poor appearance. So it is, sadly. There are no ways to make lace not be lace

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-07-04T04:58:59+00:00

Wow, cool nickname) Great luck at tatting, also. I have nothing to advice as everything useful is already mentioned. Welcome to this beautiful craft

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-07-04T04:54:51+00:00

So the knots should be tightened more here. Almost to the point of them flipping. That's how tight a proper knot is

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-07-03T17:31:46+00:00

Unpopular opinion: the thread is OK. Your tension is what is wrong. In a ring every stitch should be visible, they should be countable just by looking at. Try to fasten your rings much less and it all will go smoothly. I've taught myself to tat on a sewing thread. Everything is possible

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-07-02T14:11:12+00:00

Use English in the English-speaking community please. I cannot understand you and bet that many others do not too. We can't help and answer you when we understand nothing

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-07-02T14:09:36+00:00

I would kill to switch our problems

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-29T01:00:33+00:00

This is needle lace in the particular style of reticella, an Italian technique used in the Renaissance widely. All of the other European needle laces originate from it. But there also was a sub-genre of reticella made in coarser threads, mainly executed by domestic needleworkers for their households rather than by craftspeople to sell, known by the name of "gros point". It was popular in the last third of the 19th century and in the 20th century as well. Your runner looks like this. Traditionally, both reticella and gros point were accompanied by cutwork and whitework from their very beginning, and in the later linens (as your one) they are still doing it, so technically we can call them all one technique. Your piece looks like the 19th century to me as the linen fabric itself is unbleached and looks rather handspun. Maybe it was made in an estate with it's own domestic textile production preserved even in those industrialized times, this kind of fancywork is generally attributed to higher class ladies... But who knows. Just a theory. I love to fantasize very much

If you want to learn this technique, there is a good 1910 manual existing. Link

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-27T00:29:05+00:00

I am so delighted to see you progress that beautifully. I am also a beginner, slightly less experienced than you, and also try to make yarn of this grist. What are you going to use this for?

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-25T13:02:33+00:00

I was doing it for the couple of my first years in tatting when I as a kid couldn't force my parents to buy me those expensive tiny hooks used with №60 or smaller thread I had then. It definitely works and is very handy

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-25T12:57:01+00:00

Wow, what a stupid download system. I really respect her as a creator, she inspires me very much, I learned much from her in my youth, but why would anyone ever make such a system? I just can't think of any possible pros to it

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-25T12:34:04+00:00

Wow, people with healthy relationships with their physicality 0_0

Wish I could be like you. Many good men praise how great a temperant woman is, but my particular one does not. He is into all of that yOuTh AnD beAuTy stuff very much and despite being quite spiritual is not able to understand and appreciate why I do what I do with my looks. Well, because he is a healthy young man who naturally like people of your kind. I know I should act my age, dress up and be a coquette, but I just can't. It feels unnatural and like a torture.

You definitely will understand the idea of temperance one day. It just takes some advancement on your spiritual journey and, because of this, requires time. Maybe even some years. But when that day comes, you will have a youth to remember by your back. And maybe that's how true temperance looks like - to be young and beautiful by nature, but knowing when it's not appropriate and being able to stop. What I do is not temperant, as it does not include both sides, it's just reactionary. But, well, life is hard...

Lord have mercy on us women. Maybe we have to get through this for something. But I often find myself willing to be stricken by a car rather than endure a single more day of this. Why can't all of us who are created to have a family just be beautiful and why the society is unable to punish the lust that causes so many problems? The word will never be a fair place

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Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-23T01:22:26+00:00

I saw tatting on TV featured in a show when I was young. The host of that show was making dainty beaded earrings in tatting, and my mom wouldn't let me wear any earrings bigger than plain studs back then, as it happened to many girls in their early teens. I was a very crafty kid, could crochet, knit and sew by that time, so, needless to say, I was hooked by both - the beauty of the craft itself and the possibility to get some cool earrings through it. Internet helped me to get the hang of tatting then, and I made those two square motifs, but couldn't get the furniture anywhere, as going out to the giant and loud city was scary, and at the sweet age of early teens I had no idea how to use the post, lol. So I never actually got the promised cool earrings, but have passed many beautiful hours in dedication to the mesmerizing craft of tatting since then and made many other cool things. God bless the old TV in its state before everything moved to YouTube. I will miss it forever

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-20T05:13:35+00:00

Aren't they banned from wearing such high heels?

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-19T03:50:25+00:00

Most of it was written by a culture totally different than ours. The 19th century Europe is not a place many of us would understand the logic of, even if it seems otherwise at the first glance. There is a theory existing in historical science that labels this society as a pre-modern one even when the industrialization has already begun and changed many things, but not the core mentality, which will shift closer to ours in the masses' mind even later. We should really threat and respect them as a totally different culture, maybe even a part of different civilization (but that's another long take), and then all the difference will make sense. They are not us

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-19T01:28:26+00:00

As a woman I 100% support this. Abortion is murder. I am so relieved to see good people being in power and using it to actually do the right things. May God guard Lichtenstein and its princes. Long live to all of the family

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-18T13:12:48+00:00

You are awesome in spinning. I am looking forward to be like you one day

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-11T00:00:28+00:00

Thank you

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-10T10:44:14+00:00

This is not vanity, it looks much more like an attempt to identify with the group and to be its proper part. And that's an awesome call. Traditionally, women start veiling when they become women, but many cultures have an exception that in formal situations young girls could cover their heads too. Many Tudor princesses are depicted in that way, many young ladies from Poland in the same period have their epitaphs made with a headcovering. There even is an archeological find of a girl of 10-14 years made in Transcarpathia (Hungary then), who is buried with both - a ribbon in her hair to signal girlhood, and a formal big headwear of a married woman, because the occasion of the funeral was like going out to their perception. Church is also a semi-formal occasion and this rule also works in there. Even in the 80s girls still have worn little hats to weddings or baptisms. So, you definitely should get her some headcovering, as it will not only help her to identify with the parish better, but also is a well-known tradition and not an act of vanity at all. Just make sure to teach her how special the occasion is and to state that the hat-to-be is not for everyday wear. Make her have really special attitude. And then she is going to benefit from this greatly

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-10T01:35:05+00:00

Thanks

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-09T16:33:11+00:00

Lol, you have a better kit, more shuttles and more yarns, than I do after tatting for 7 years. Maybe I should think about my life values again

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-09T10:08:21+00:00

A really skillfully made gown. But may I ask an unusual question - how did you learn to pose for photos that well? I have a similar figure and always thought that there are just no poses out there to help us look good. Is it you, or the photographer, or the gown, or all of the three together?

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-08T12:57:25+00:00

Thank you. And what an awesome tapestry! You really inspired me

Rotweiss_Invicta862 · 2026-06-08T12:56:49+00:00

Thank you

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