Macramé: Knot a problem!
DEFINED AS A FORM of decorative knotting, macramé has been used for centuries, with carvings of the Assyrians and Babylonians depicting the use of knots for decorations, and from around 1200AD the Arabs began to use an early form of the western macramé we still use today. Macramé knotting was also used by the Chinese, the Egyptians and the Peruvians.
In the 1400s the term ‘macramé’ was used in the Arabic culture to mean ‘a shawl that protects the head’ while in Turkish it means the knotted fringe on towels and linen. It is derived from the early practice of knotting a fringe to a
