Vintage edging inspired bracelet

 New bracelet which I developed from a vintage edging pattern. In this I've used size 20 Lizbeth thread in the color "Fudge Dark", size 11/0 seed beads in dark bronze, and size 4mm Swarovski Crystal Pearls in bright gold.


The pattern has an unusual placement of a picot that I've not seen before in a vintage pattern (the pattern was found in an old Lily Mills Crochet and Tatted Edgings book). The only way that I can explain it is to show you what I did.

 The tatting proceeded normally until the point in the chain where it was supposed to lock join to a ring. But, the ring didn't exist yet! So, a picot needed to be placed there in such a way that the join would be locked, and the picot sticking out from the lower side of the chain. I don't think this is the same thing as a "drop picot" or "inverted picot" according to what I could find on the subject in a quick Internet search. So, not exactly sure of what to do, I opted to make the first half a a double stitch unflipped, followed closely by the second half of a double stitch flipped, with a picot formed between them.

 Then, I resumed normal tatting. The chain had the desired break in the curve to follow the design, with a picot waiting for the yet to be tatted joining ring.

 When the ring was joined to that picot, the design had the desired mirror-image effect.