“KAPADOKYA” SUMMER NECKLACE

6 colors: red and purple, 1m necklace, handmade.    “OYA” lace is worked with a very fine needle with a thread sometimes enhanced with pearls to highlight the patterns, by the women of Anatolia.   An ornament of arabesques all in lace; the eternal feminine. 
 A mixed contemporary creation Oya necklaces were born from the mix of Turkish lace-making tradition and the traveling eye of Christine Delpal, creator of the Karawan brand.   The strong and promising meeting with Hanifa and her sisters, villagers from Anatolia, was obvious.    Since its foundation, Karawan has been committed to promoting the artisanal know-how of the Silk Roads, through the creation of unique collections that Christine revisits through design, to keep them alive, in a solidarity economy approach.   A shared desire to transmit and support exceptional traditional female knowledge, often limited to the domestic sphere, towards professionalization, a source of income and innovation.    Christine spends many days in the mountains of Anatolia, alongside Hanifa, and they design together in a dynamic of co-creation these ornaments inspired by the telluric colors of the region and the changing rhythm of the seasons.   Sets to coordinate as you wish or to vary... with the very feminine ornament of lace, as the only guiding thread!    Since 2010, 30 women from surrounding villages have joined together to provide training for young people and organize production which takes place throughout the year, in a dynamic of regular renewal of the collections.    A hymn to femininity A refined collection of textile adornments made from thread lace in the telluric colors of the Anatolian seasons.   “Oya” lace is a very meticulous traditional art, inherited from the Silk Roads.    The thread is worked with a very fine needle or crochet, sometimes enhanced with beads to highlight the patterns.   Today it is inseparable from the “Yazma” this flowered scarf, so recognizable to the women of Anatolia.    OYA, an Ottoman lace inherited from the Silk Roads Originally made in Ottoman palaces, it was used to adorn clothing, cushions, hangings, etc. It was introduced into European courts in the 16th century and entered the dictionary of the French language in the 16th century under the Turkish lace name.   Around the middle of the 18th century, lace experienced a real craze.    In the harem, it was the one of the concubines who created the richest lace.   The silk thread was interwoven with gold or silver thread, to the point that Sultan Mahmud I had to issue sumptuary laws limiting their use.   Since then, Oya lace has become popular.   It has spread throughout the countryside where it is inseparable from the “Yazma”, the scarf worn by Anatolian women.   It is said that the Anatolian woman conveys her feelings, and expresses her affiliations, through the patterns and colors she uses.