More Turkish lace

There are two types of Turkish lace, one made using a fine crochet hook in a looping technique and the other in a knotting technique using a needle and thread. The cherry design shown in the image above shows both techniques as the scarf edging was made using the knotting method and the earrings were made using a crochet technique. For the knotting technique, the needle is inserted under the main thread then the length of thread is wound round the needle to make the loop and knotted in place. The difficult bit is controlling the size of the loops so they form a graded series that look like leaves. The leaves of the earrings are made using a fine crochet hook to pull loops of thread through each other to make a more solid looking leaf.

Both these two scarf edgings have been made using the crochet technique. The yellow one includes beads around the edge of the large scallop, to weight the lace as well as to catch the light and add sparkle. The other edging incorporates white and green threads. The base green design would have been worked first and the line of white loops added as a second round of work along the top. All the edgings were worked straight onto the scarves so the lacemaker could incorporate the hemming process into the lace work, rather than making the edgings and sewing them on to the fabric once they were finished. The lace is not only practical but also beautiful and even from these few examples you can see what a variety of lace can be made using these two techniques.