Clover Tatting Shuttles Arts Supplies, 6″ Height x 3″ Length x 0.5″ Width, colors may vary

I’ve done tatting for over 45 years and have taught it for the past 3 years in Community Education Classes, for which I wrote a textbook on tatting,Beginning Tatting: A Lesson Book: Arts and Crafts Collection. I’ve purchased these shuttles for my students to use on many occasions. They’re just a little smaller than the Boyle shuttles, but they fit nicely in the hand and pass smoothly among the threads in the process of working the pattern. Because they are small, they will not hold as much of a standard crochet thread as one might like for larger motifs–though they will finish a snowflake in this material–but are fully adequate for the standard tatting threads used in bridal and other laces. They are certainly more than adequate for common sewing threads used in making note cards and baby laces. The pointed end is not quite as easy to use for picking apart mistakes, but it also doesn’t tend to get accidentally caught on threads as it passes through the hands in the tatting process like the Boyle can either. (I usually find a small size crochet hook often works best for removing mistakes when they occur anyway.) As with most plastic shuttles, this one has a fixed “post” so it must be wound as is, unlike the Boyle which has a removable bobbin.