Cardinal Giorgio Marengo.
This looks like tatted lace to me? Plus hemstitching details?
Is it possible to make machine-produced tatted lace?
If it's hand-tatted, I'd estimate several hours per 10cm of lace?
Was this post sponsored by a question-mark factory? #scnr
Been learning how to shuttle tat lace
The hardest part of it has honestly been giving myself permission to do it,
and then not getting caught up in how "good" or meritorious the finished pieces are.
Also working thru the worry that my creations have to be useful in some way or else they dont deserve to exist,
which of course touches feelings i have about myself & my usefulness/right to exist...
Anyway plz enjoy this snowflake
i was so happy when i discovered shuttle tatting, which eliminates both issues and is actually not that hard to learn. The stitches are structured pretty much like macrame knots and the patterns/diagrams are easy to follow. Even for me, and i can't stand reading patterns 
this is a free pattern i found online, originally meant to be attached as edging on a handkerchief. #LolitaFashion peeps coming over from #TikTok ! There's a few of us here on Mastodon. I personally made my account a couple weeks ago, and am OBSESSED with lacemaking and the fashion(I also really enjoy tamagotchi).
I left tiktok a couple years ago, and am working to move away from Meta's products for regular scrolling and am moving over to here. Feel free to connect!
So sieht ein ICE doch gleich viel wohnlicher aus <3
Thanks to @yarnplayer's suggestion to use a lock join, my scalloped edge looks so much more scalloped now <3
One question remains, though: the pattern says to work this round with one shuttle and the ball.
So normally I'd have to work the little 10 st ring pointing to the outside of the arch with the ball thread, right?
I fudged it by switching threads, worked the ring with the shuttle thread and then switched back. Is that correct?
My scalloped edge looks all weird :-(
It doesn't arch at all, and there is no v-shape where I connect to the picot of the previous round.
What am I doing wrong?
Das Ergebnis.
In der Mitte das ewige Denkmal für den Umstand, dass Spitzen-Machen auch mit 30 Jahren Erfahrung eine Lektion in Demut ist...
Und nun zu einer überregional eher unbekannten Tradition:
Schneeflocken bügeln.
