Notes on using a knot as an embellishment in a picot.
Here are a couple of examples of using a knot in the picot as a device to enhance or clarify the tatted image. I have never seen it done until now, though it is sure someone somewhere and at sometime has done it.
In the new book Animal Bookmarks, A Tatted Zoo, three of the patterns incorporates this device.
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Long picots were made and then knotted to give the illusion of antennae for the snail, top notch feathers for the peacock, and knotted, then cut to emulate the split tongue of the snake.
These picots have been knotted on the exterior picots and used as a design element. The question is could this device also be used as a design element in other tatting? Would you use it in the design of a snowflake or doily? What if you make the long picots and knotted them in the center and later joined them to a subsequent round or motif?