Oya

Found another site that sells oya needle lace. I have emailed all kinds of people, and they all tell me the patterns are in peoples' heads and not written down anywhere. I have offered to write patterns if I could see samples, but the answer is always the same: Well, we don't need them written because we know them in our heads. I try to explain they could use them to make a book to sell, but they don't seem to understand that when the person who has them in their head dies, so does the pattern unless it is passed down, and this doesn't always happen if people in the family don't want to learn the skill. This is so sad and frustrating to me.