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Struggling with a Name

9/19/2017

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My next big art event is coming up this Saturday when I participate in the Yorktown Art Stroll.  I have been working steadily to build up my inventory of Free Lace Scarves to have enough to display and to put up in our Etsy store soon.

I love working on these scarves.  In the design phase I revel in the mix of colors and textures of the fabrics and yarns that I use.  During the machine-stitching phase, I enjoy thinking about what colors I want to use next or about other projects in progress or planned.  The stitching is repetitive enough that I can use the free space in my mind to puzzle out any issues I am dealing with.

This week I have been puzzling out what product descriptors I will use when I put my scarves on Etsy.  I have always called them "Free Lace." It's the term used by the instruction book I bought so many years ago.  Lately, though, I have been wondering if that is the best term to use.  If I use the term in a search in Etsy, Instagram, Google, etc., all I ever come up with are knitted or crocheted scarves.  I wonder if that is a problem, or is it an asset that mine are so different.

I am having trouble thinking of alternate descriptors.  One I came up with is Confetti Scarves.  If I Google that, the scarves I see are somewhat similar to mine - at least the ones I make with small fabric shapes, but many of mine are made with yarns or ribbons.  The term doesn't see to me to fit those scarves well.  If I search for Ribbon Scarves, I don't come up with anything like mine.

I could use some help coming up with some good search terms for them.  Here are some pictures of some of the scarves.
What descriptor terms could you suggest for these??
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Jeanne
9/19/2017 02:00:37 pm

lattice? lattice work lace?
Like that blue one a lot!

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Sonja
9/24/2017 03:49:42 pm

I pondered alternates to Free Lace Scarves but I can't think of anything brilliant. Best I could come up with is snippet scarves, thread-play collage scarves, thread lace scarves, and thread collage scarves.

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