2004 TAT DAY Teacher

Nina Libin of New York

Email: nlibin@beanile.com
Website: http://www.beanile.com/

Bio | Long Class | Short Class | Special 1 | Special 2 | Special 3 | Samples

Bio

My name is Nina G. Libin. I was born in St.Petersburg, Russia, so my first language is Russian.

I have been designing BEANILE jewelry since 1985. I have been teaching tatting (all levels) and Beanile Lace since 1988 in Russia and since 1993 in New York City and other places world wide.

In 1988 I started publishing magazine articles on bead tatting. My first book "Tatted Lace of Beads, the Techniques of BEANILE Lace" was published by LACIS in 1998. In 2003 I started a periodical called "Lace of Beads".

I learned to crochet and knit at age seven. Started sewing at age twenty. But only in the mid-forties did I discover simultaneously tatting and beads. In 1982, while taking a workshop in Russian bobbin lace, I heard someone mention frivolité, - a mysterious name for a totally unknown needlework, which that lady learned from her grandmother or an elderly friend. Than and there we (about 10 enthusiastic women) decided to revive it!

For resources we had:

• A very bad photocopy of a few pages on tatting from a 1902 book (it appeared to be a Russian version of Thrésé de Dillmont's Encyclopedia of Needlework)
• a variety of cotton and linen thread
• NO shuttles, - my first one I made myself out of a plastic ruler.

Reviving frivolité was a challenge and a great fun. The participants of that group became the first tatting instructors in Leningrad and Moscow.

The process included:

• Learning tatting hands on
• Digging out all sorts of related information
• Adapting old and designing new patterns
• Developing courses and teaching
• Writing articles, instructions, and books on the subject.

I am primarily a shuttle tatter but I also do a lot of finger tatting, needle tatting and I cro-tat occasionally.

Long Class

Materials Needed:

• Two tatting shuttles
• a crochet hook size 10
• small scissors
• about 79 pearls (5-6mm rice shape);
• about 400 seed beads size 10
• matching color metallic embroidery thread, about 15 yards (DMC Embroidery Silver thread works well)

There will be kits in two colors for the project available in class.

Handouts: Detailed instructions for the necklace.

Short class

Introduction to Bead Tatting Jewelry Set ‘PALMETTO’ © 2004, Nina Libin

Class Description: This class will cover basic skills in combining tatting and beads. Starting a small project - a pair of earrings, a pendant, or a pin (1 part of “Palmetto” jewelry set) - students will learn how to: Read Beanile patterns Arrange beads into simple jewelry with ONE shuttle and/or by finger tatting How adding beads changes the shape of a tatted motif Pre-requisites/Level: Intermediate Maximum # of Students - 15

Materials Needed:

One tatting shuttle, a crochet hook size 10, small scissors

and

you select which piece of jewelry you will make in class.

For a pair of earrings you will need about 4 yards of size 20 thread, 12 pearls (5-6mm rice shape), & 150 seed beads size 9.

For a pendant you will need about 2 yards of size 20 thread, 7 pearls (5-6mm rice shape), & 100 seed beads size 9.

For a pin you will need about 3 yards of size 20 thread, 12 pearls (5-6mm rice shape), & 135 seed beads size 9.

Kits in two colors will be available in class.

Handouts: Detailed instructions for the whole set (three pieces).

Special 1

Preserving the History; Expanding the Culture - Repairing Antique Pieces, Tat Around the World. (Friday morning)

Special 2

Sharing Original Designs (Friday morning)

Special 3

Geometry and Terminology: The Numbers and Letters Behind the Art (Saturday Evening)

Samples of teacher’s work:

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