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title: "Macramé"
description: "Macramé is a technique of making textiles by knotting cords or yarns in patterns, without needles, looms or hooks."
type: Glossary
url: https://teazle.art/glossary/macrame
published: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-14
author: "The Teazle editors"
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# Macramé

*Macramé is a technique of making textiles by knotting cords or yarns in patterns, without needles, looms or hooks.*

Macramé uses a few knots, the square knot and half hitches above all, repeated and combined into nets, fringes and solid panels. It has a long history in Arab and Mediterranean decorative work, was a sailors’ craft, and returned to popularity in the 1970s and again recently.


## Sources

1. [Macramé (AAT 300053636)](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300053636). Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
2. [Macramé (Q1161827)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1161827). Wikidata

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