{"id":3750,"date":"2026-04-09T01:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2026-04-09T01:24:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T01:24:00","slug":"turkish-tatting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/turkish-tatting\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish &#8216;Tatting&#8217;  ?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mekik Oyas\u0131 Nas\u0131l Yap\u0131l\u0131r 3. Ders\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uLQclUE0VcI?start=589&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In prepping for my upcoming trip to Camp Wanna Tat (my first time there!) April 17-18, 2026 in Kalispell, MT I have been relooking at YouTube videos on Turkish &#8216;tatting&#8217;.\u00a0 I think that it is called <strong>Mekik Oyasi<\/strong>.\u00a0 &#8216;Mekik&#8217; meaning &#8216;shuttle&#8217; and &#8216;Oyasi&#8217; meaning &#8216;lace&#8217; <em>(or something like that)<\/em>.\u00a0 The reason I&#8217;m relooking is that one of the classes at CWT is &#8216;Oya Flower&#8217; by Leesa Kramer.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve played around with the oya flower before, many years ago but haven&#8217;t done much with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0001-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3751 size-medium alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0001-182x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0001-182x300.jpg 182w, https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0001-621x1024.jpg 621w, https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0001-768x1267.jpg 768w, https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0001-931x1536.jpg 931w, https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0001-1242x2048.jpg 1242w, https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0001-scaled.jpg 1552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0001-scaled.jpg\">This is my attempt at &#8216;tatting&#8217; an oya flower today.\u00a0 The oya flower ends at the top of the motif.\u00a0 Keep in mind that Turkish &#8216;tatters&#8217; use synthetic\/polyester thread and when they finish with one motif such at the one I made, they either cut the thread leaving about 1\/8&#8243; and then melt the thread to finish it&#8211;<em>something we can&#8217;t do with cotton thread <\/em>or the <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0001-scaled.jpg\">Turkish &#8216;tatters&#8217; l<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0001-scaled.jpg\">eave a space of bare thread from the finish of one motif,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0001-scaled.jpg\"> to be able to use the same thread for another motif.\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So lately I have been watching Turkish YouTube videos. I posted one of them before on my FB page, questioning whether this is true &#8216;tatting&#8217;.\u00a0 In all the Turkish videos I have been watching, the rings and chains are created using a modification of SCMR with all the stitches being untransferred.\u00a0 In this previous post, only one person commented saying that they thought they did see the stitches transferred.\u00a0 Unfortunately, they were wrong. After watching many more Turkish Mekik Oyasi YouTube videos, I am positive that the Turkish approach to &#8216;tatting&#8217; is quite different than traditional tatting.<\/p>\n<p>So my question is:\u00a0 <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Is it TATTING is the stitches are not transferred?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the past, it was a popular belief that the definition of &#8216;TATTING&#8217; was that the stitches were transferred.\u00a0 <em>(However, that brings us to a different question regarding Split Ring Tatting Technique!!!\u00a0 We can tackle that question at a different time.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I chose the above video to share, because it clearly shows how Turkish &#8216;tatting&#8217; is created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In prepping for my upcoming trip to Camp Wanna Tat (my first time there!) April 17-18, 2026 in Kalispell, MT I have been relooking at YouTube videos on Turkish &#8216;tatting&#8217;.\u00a0 I think that it is called Mekik Oyasi.\u00a0 &#8216;Mekik&#8217; meaning &#8216;shuttle&#8217; and &#8216;Oyasi&#8217; meaning &#8216;lace&#8217; (or something like that).\u00a0 The reason I&#8217;m relooking is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/turkish-tatting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Turkish &#8216;Tatting&#8217;  ?!?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3754,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}