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Abbreviations and numbers counting the stitches of each ring.
Also known as: Shuttle lace notation, Picot notation
Tatting is written as counted sequences — so many double stitches, a picot, so many more — rather than charted. The numbers are the pattern, and the shape emerges from the counting rather than being drawn.
Records a tatted pattern as counted sequences of double stitches and picots rather than as a chart.
Contexts: Laundry
Produces the finished shape from the counts alone, which is why tatting patterns are written and rarely diagrammed.
Contexts: Laundry
A line of numerals separated by dashes and letters, printed as running text rather than as a diagram.