I am not a lacemaker, so I cannot say much about the execution of tatting and reticella. But I recognize it when I see it, and so can you! Both seem to be very tight, very precise, single-thread lace-making techniques. Tatting is classed as a knotted lace, made with a small tatting shuttle. Some times it is very simple - just one row of circles, but can also be very complex. One clue is that it always has picots - tiny decorative loops on the edge. Reticella, on the other hand, is classed as a needle-lace, and is made with a sewing needle. It is primarily made with the button-hole stitch. It has no little picots, but often it has solid little nubs or lumps. When you scroll through the reticella entries here, you will see it is usually characterized by straight geometric patterns - nubby straight lines, crossed lines and triangles. A similar kind of needle lace, a slightly more advanced version of reticella, is called punto in aria. It is very like reticella except that it is created differently and features more curved lines, flowery circles and loops. There are several samples of both punto in aria and of reticella in the Needle Lace folder here. This answers your question in a rather incomplete way, but it is a start.
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