This new book is hardback, with full color photos and numbered diagrams, 103 pgs. His tatting is the most traditional style of tatting done today, I believe. I am much intrigued by the central motif of the example shown above. It is a swirly form much reminiscent of vintage crochet patterns. Jan's has used this motif for table decorations but also for a hat and a marvelous fashion vest! This book, too, contains an explanation of the most important point of Jan's Method (https://www.frywolitka.slupsk.pl/index_en.php?id=_jans_method), his placement of the picot in the middle of a double stitch between the first half stitch and the second half stitch. Most of today's tatting designers place the picot between the second half stitch and the first half stitch of the following double stitch.

To understand and tat his patterns we must be aware that the first dot (before a slash mark) indicates the first half stitch. The slash mark indicates a picot. A second dot (after a slash mark) calls for the second half stitch.

After nagging, er... encouraging him for over a year to hurry and finish up book 2, Jan and his publisher kindly sent me a copy for review.