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Knotted Lace

Knotted lace trimming (oya) on a Turkish headscarf. Knotted lace trimming (oya) on a Turkish headscarf.

Knotted lace is a term that covers a group of laces created by various forms of knots. This group includes the lace trimmings that are traditionally made by women living along the eastern and southern sides of the Mediterranean, as well as in parts of Armenia. The Turkish term for this type of lace is oya (a generic term for several methods of making such lace trimmings).

Another form of knotted lace is macramé, which is knotted by hand, and tatting, which is made with a small, tatting shuttle to create lark’s head knots.

Source: EARNSHAW, Pat (1984). A Dictionary of Lace, Aylesbury: Shire Publications Ltd, pp. 90-91.

Digital source of illustration (retrieved 25th June 2016).

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