Editing
The Epic Tablecloth pattern comes out of a book called Every Woman's Complete Guide to Tatting, edited by Barbara Foster; the patterns themselves, and there are a heck of a lot of them1, were designed by a woman named Norma Benporth. Despite her insistence that tatting was invented by the Egyptians--in reality, it's not even SCA-period2--the patterns themselves make great stuff...at least, if you can decipher them. What I really ought to do sometime is go through and make slightly more modern versions of them, and possibly draw them out as graphic patterns as well. This means digging up the book again, of course, but that shouldn't be too hard.
1: Including one I think is terribly funny, to tat the four card suits as motifs so you can then make a cloth to cover your card table when the ladies are over to play bridge. Who the heck has time for that?
2: Some people think that needle tatting may squeak in during the 1590s, but shuttle tatting is thoroughly out of period and personally I'm skeptical about the needle version as well.