St. Benedict's Monastery - St. Joseph, Minnesota Berno Flint, OSB, tatting Berno hails from Roscoe, Minnesota. She spent many years of her religious life in nursing education. She first became interested in tatting when she was in grade school, learning the skill in 1910 from her teachers.
Tatting is composed of knots, picots, and stitches, which form rings and semicircles.
Types of designs are produced by the various arrangements of these motifs. The tatting shuttle consists of two boat-shaped blades, which are pointed at the ends and joined in the middle.