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u/cldrgd · 5 pointsr/tatting

Frivole has videos that work well for me. If videos really aren't working, it may be worth asking around in any local craft/yarn stores to see if you can find someone willing to show you the basics? Or google your location and "lace guild" and see what you come up with?

I've actually had an easier time showing people how to start on chains than on loops. You can wind a shuttle with one color, tie it to a ball of another color and then follow a tutorial like this. If you're doing it right, the knots will be in the color of the ball thread, not the color of the thread on the shuttle. Being able to see if you're doing it right at a glance might help.

While everyone else is right that the kind of size 10 crochet thread you find at places like Michaels is perfectly fine, if you see something like Lizbeth or DMC tatting thread in the store (or if you end up ordering thread online anyway) it might be worth trying. It's often firmer than crochet thread, which means it doesn't come apart so easily if you have to pick out stitches over and over and the stitches slide a tiny bit easier. The kind of cord in that video I linked earlier might work too. If it's too big for your shuttles, just cut a notch in each end of a smallish piece of cardboard and use that instead. (Some of my great grandmother's shuttles are just H shaped pieces of wood.)

u/kokobeau · 1 pointr/tatting

I've purchased supplies from Lacis, Tatting Corner, and Handy Hands. They have a variety of shuttle sizes available. You could measure the shuttles you have and see if these shops have smaller ones.

My hands are small too so I don't like shuttles larger than the small Clover tatting shuttles.

I bought three wooden shuttles from David Reed Smith last year. The ends are flexible like my Clover tatting shuttles and don't fray the thread. My shuttles are 2.25" long not including the spike and are made from Honduras Rosewood, East Indian Rosewood, and Koa. They're handmade so they are all slightly different.

David makes even smaller 2" shuttles and you can also order the shuttles without the spike to make the shuttle shorter.

u/PenolopyBulnick · 2 pointsr/tatting

I only needle tat but have used shuttles. Can you put hot glue where your fingers touches it or glue down a circle of that slip resistant plastic you line drawers with like this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LD77UF6/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Fm7zCbNMFXXRH