Teacher

Nina Libin
of New York

Email: nlibin@beanile.com

Website: http://www.beanile.com/

Bio | Class 1 | Class 2 | Class 3 | Conference | Samples

April 2, 2005

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.

Class 1

"Bead Tatting with ONE Shuttle"

Time: Friday, 1 to 3

Techniques: Basic skills in combining tatting and beads
Project: Students will make a few small samples and start the central part of “Palmetto-2005” necklace

Intermediate Level: Basic knowledge of tatting

Description:
Students will learn how to make a continuous string of symmetrical and asymmetrical rings with ONE shuttle using the “pulled loop” join, and how to arrange beads into rings of different shape.

Supplies:
Students should bring their tatting tools and can bring thread and beads they want to work with.
An optional $10 kit with a variety of threads and seed beads to make samples and complete the project plus detailed instructions for the necklace will be available in the vending area.

Class 2

"Designing Jeweled Lace"

Time: Saturday, 11:30 to 1:30

Technique: Design oriented with emphasis on advanced skills in choosing and arranging beads.
Project: Students will make a few samples and start the project, V shaped necklace to finish it later.

Advanced Level: Good tatting skills

Description:
The main study of the class is on how to design jewelry patterns considering shape, color, size of beads, and the occasion for the piece. Students will learn how to read and write patterns for bead tatting and arrange various beads into lace jewelry with TWO shuttles and/or by finger tatting.

Supplies:
Students should bring their tatting tools and can bring thread and beads they want to work with.
2 optional kits will be available in the vending area. Either a $12 kit which includes thread and beads for the samples and the project; plus detailed instructions, or a $40 kit with DMC Metallic Embroidery thread (Gold and Silver) and fresh-w-pearls for the necklace.

V-shaped Pearl Necklace	Beads Inside and Outside of a Ring

Class 3 Team Teaching with Karen Miner

"Time to tat, chat, teach and learn while finishing up the workshop projects"

Time: Saturday, 3 to 5

Technique: Any needed review may be requested on the spot
Project: Finishing your workshop project

Study Hall: This session provides additional instruction for the student who wants more direction and time to complete a project begun in an earlier class. Also, feel free to join this class if you’ve been working at home on a pattern by this designer and would like some guidance in its completion.

Intermediate to Advanced Level

Description:
Teacher will take requests for techniques to be reviewed while tatters complete projects or just tat along.

Supplies:
Whatever is needed to complete your project or that you need to review.

Conference: Saturday, 9 to 11, with Georgia and Mary.

Samples of teacher’s work:

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