Ninetta Caruso, my partner in crime! Ninetta is my PIC in the Endrucks 1920 Project and we have a great collaboration going. Add to the vibrant Project is something she and I have been working on since August of 2025 - a tutorial resource catering to the Endrucksian collection. but of course, it is relevant for any tatting project.
Eleonore Endrucks used very limited techniques to create unique patterns in her 1920 book, Die Schiffchen-Spitzen. Yet the derivatives and even some reworkings of her originals have applied a wide range of techniques and effects. Our members cover an entire spectrum of skill levels. Hence some required help at various stages. We tried to provide that help. Over time, these tips and techniques started growing and remained scattered. (We had used the #eptutorial hashtag, yet found that only some selective posts came up). Hence we needed to bring them all under one roof so that future tatters could find the tutorial alongside the pattern easily. To that end we worked on the EP Tutorials document and lo and behold, it started to grow and grow!
As our technique list grew, we tried to incorporate what Frau Endrucks herself advocated through her advice and preface and balance it with what we do today.
EP Tutorials : https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Xh32ZlW5MmVTlidA8RzwwY7j-l4i_9YYv5N236R5RE/view (click link to open/download)
Some features of this document include -
- Endrucks' tips
- short introduction or descriptions
- pictorials (as PDFs)
- video links
- blog links (We have tried to keep it an in-house affair limiting the links to either Ninetta's or to my blog and resources created by us.)
- diagrams (as PDFs)
- pattern links where the technique was used or effect applied; these can act as practice patterns. All patterns are from our Endrucksian collection.
- starting and finishing
- changing direction
- 3D or dimensional tatting
- picots
- joins
- classic formations
- techniques
- continuous tatting
- needle tatting
- working with beads and jewellery findings or notions