Necklaces with needle lace

Wonderful layered necklace with colorful oya flowers and beads strung on a black yarn. This long crochet necklace is handmade using the Turkish Oya technique of delicate stitches and knots. 

This colorful necklace makes an attractive accessory to wear to work on a white shirt or even a casual barbeque with friends. So lightweight and comfortable the colors of the beads and hand crochet daisy flowers would pop when worn over a black dress! 

Please see details about oya technique at the additional information section.

A very refined handiwork that you find in Turkey needle lace, 'oya' or 'igne oyasi' in Turkish. This delicate lace is made with needle and thread, and is not the lace work or crocheted, as is sometimes thought. Nowhere else than in Turkey (in Ottoman times you thought the example in Bulgaria or Greece) is so fine. The "oya" can be found in tiny flower borders, often with multiple colors. Even tiny details like little stamper is shaped. It used to be kind of flowers and the colors also had a symbolic meaning. Each area has its own style needle lace. Fine and small or large and brightly colored, with or without beads.