ACORDEÓN / ACCORDION: lace edging type, its name comes from the similarity with the bellows of an accordion. This lace edging is considered as a group because its pairs go from the footside to the opposed border of the piece. It is composed by parallel bars with whole stitch, separated by strips of rhombuses, with twisted whole stitch, which are joined to each other.

ALMOHADA / PILLOW : fundamental element for the artisan's work. It has a form similar to that of a flat cylinder. Its dimensions depend on the work that one works, being wider or long according to it is it this, being able to settle down a stocking of 30 for 50.

ANTROPOMÓRFICOS : figurative motives representing human or mitológical figures

ANTENA : stitch used in the making of the lace. This is a typical stitch of Camariñas. It creates grounds of a great visual complexity. It is made crossing the pairs four at the time with half stitch crossing.

ANTENA CON CUERDA : antena variety. The vertical and horizontal twisted pairs become braids.

AROLA : it is a variant of the scallop lace edging, it is made with two worker pairs, which go crossing.

BERBERECHO / TORCHON EDGING : it is a lace edging which forms arches with an 45º angle and it has a series of torchon stitches parallel to the radius, from which the worker pair goes and returns toward the arch, forming a similar drawing to that of the shell of a cockle. It is made with whole stitch and/or twisted whole stitch.

BODOQUE / BALL : darning sitch type. To make the ball we separate four bobbins of whole stitch or half stitch base, making with them a torchon stitch. Then we make the darning stitch in leaf shape and we join the end of the leaf with its beginning.

CALADOS / OPEN WORK : characteristic motives of the lace, the open work is made in the whole stitch diamonds, twisting the threads or putting a series of torchon ground stitches forming a hole.

CARTÓN OR PICADO / PRICKING : template previously perforated which permits to follow the lace pattern.

CASADILLO / VIRGIN GROUND STITCH: This is a stitch that is used as ground, creating a reticle of alternative squares, each one of those is composed by a rhombus inscribed in a square. Their visual effect is complex and at the same time it is a transparent net. To make each one of the squares, we need four pair of bobbins, which go twisting and crossing of half stitch.

CASADILLO CON CORDÓN / VIRGIN GROUND STITCH WITH BRAID: virgin ground stitch variant. The twisted pairs joining the reticles become braids.

CASADILLO TAPADO: virgin ground stitch variant. The reticle loses its rhombus form and it is made with whole stitch.

CENTRO/CENTRE : it is the central part of the edging. This part is located between the footside and the head side, between two footsides (when it is an insertion) or between two head sides. The center is usually well differentiated of the rest of the work. Two elements can be distinguished: the ground and the closed parts.

COIRA / WORK CLOTH: leather rectangle that is placed under the bobbins so that these slip better.

CONCHIÑA / SCALLOP : it is a whole stitch and twisted whole stitch lace edging, it has the shape of a shell or half moon.

CONCHIÑAS ENLAZADAS / JOINED SCALLOPS : the scallop is used as much as center as forming the head side of the edging.

CORAZÓN : HEART : lace edging type, usually with half stitch, although we can find some with whole stitch. In this group we have three types: narrow lace edgings with lobe shape in which for each angle several arches exist, lace edgings with several angles for the same arch and lace edgings whose center of the radius doesn't coincide with the center of the arch.

CORDONES / BRAID : basic technique for the realization of the fitting. The braid is made with four bobbins, to make it we always twist the two middle bobbins toward the right and those of the sides toward the left.

CORDÓN CON GANCHILLO / BRAID WITH PICOTS: braid variant. To make the picot, we turn one of the threads of the braid, with the help of a pin, and we hold it in a torchon stitch.

CRUCES / CROSSINGS: basic technique for the realization of the fitting. There are half stitch crossing of whole stitch crossing.

CRUCE DE MEDIO PAR / HALF STITCH : to make this crossing we use three bobbins ; the right bobbin goes over the left one of the pair and then, the worker bobbin over the first and under the second.

CRUCE DE PAR ENTERO / WHOLE STITCH: we use two pairs (four bobbins) to make this crossing. The second goes over the third, the fourth over the second, the third goes over the first and finally the first over the fourth.

CURVILINEO / CURVILINEAR: type of geometric lace in which the curvilinear lines dominate.

ENCAJE / LACE : ornamental fabric made of fine threads (linen, cotton, silk, etc.) which is manufactured with needle, bobbins, crochet hook, or machine.

ENCAJE GENUINO / GENUINE LACE : woven material elaborated by hand with bobbins, it is the result of the crossings of threads on a pillow and following a pattern.

ENCAJE GEOMÉTRICO / GEOMETRIC : lace with the design based in straight lines and angles, being the most habitual those of 45º and 90º.

ESES / BARS : they are made with whole stitch, half stitch and twisted whole stitch.

ESTRELLA / STAR : darning stitch variety. The pairs are taken out of two different stitches, the darning stitch is made and all are taken to the same contiguous stitch.

FIEITA : typical Camariñas design. It is formed with half stitch diamonds, branches of leaves and wavy whole stitch strips.

FILIGRANA / ROSE GROUND STITCH : It is a ground stitch that consists of two twists, crossing, to nail the pin, to cross to close the stitch and to repeat the whole operation again, always following the drawing.

FLORES / FLOWERS : They are made with joined darning stitches (leaves).

FLORES CON VIRIL DENTRO / FLOWERS WITH SPIDER INSIDE: In these flowers, the pair of the upper petals are picked up in a series of stitches, so that they are held to make a spider inside the flower.

FLORES ENLAZADAS / JOINED FLOWERS : Joined flowers of darning stitches (leaves).

FLORES DE ZURCIDOS : Joined darning stitches that form a flower figure

FONDO / GROUND : it is the net, more or less transparent, on which those fillings that configure opaque forms highlight.

GANAPAN : It is formed with guipur leaves, darning stitches and braids.

GEOMÉTRICO GEOMETRIC : lace type. It is based on a continuous repetition of a basic module along the whole work, so that it is gotten a clear prevalence of the symmetry and the harmony in the whole piece. In them it is necessary the presence of a great number of darning stitches which give a big impact on the lace.

GITANA / FAN SHAPE HEAD SIDE : lace edging type. The fan shape work is, maybe, the most characteristic and well-known in the area of Camariñas. This head side is distributed forming angles of 45º and having an angle for each arch.

GUÍA / WORKER BOBBINS: two (in the whole stitch) or one (in the half stitch) bobbins that with the threads makes the weave, that is to say, the threads (in the whole stitch) or the thread (in the half stitch) that they go and they return from right to left of the area that covers the stitch, going by the other threads of the bobbins that cover the area.

GUIPUR: lace type that is characteristic called this way by the profusion of wheatears or leaves (mends) in their designs.

HILO / THREAD: fundamental element to make the lace, of their quality and grosor the result of the work will depend in great measure. The most used one is the cotton thread, although they are also used the silk thread and that of linen.

HOJA / LEAVE: darning stitch type. It is made taking four bobbins out of the same stitch and finishing with the four ones in a contiguous stitch.

MEDIA ANTENA: antena variety. One of each two diagonals is suppressed.

MEDIO PAR / HALF STITCH: It is made taking always the same bobbin as worker and repeating the crossing of half stitch with successive pairs . This stitch is used to for closed parts, giving the visual aspect of a transparent fabric.

MIXTO / MIXED: edging type in those that a prevalence of any certain element doesn't exist, since tries to combine curved forms, straight lines, bloemwerk,etc.

NIDO DE ABEJA / HONEYCOMB STITCH : It is a ground stitch and the drawing is similar to that of a honeycomb of bees. It consists of two braids, which go separating in twisted pairs, that when joining with others that lower at the same time, they again form braids.

NUTRIDO / CLOSED PART : It is the opaque work that is silhouetted against the ground.

OJO DE PERDIZ / PARTRIGDE EYE : this stitch consists on a strip in continuous shape of an eight, it is formed by a gimp or a group of pairs that cross in whole stitch.

PALILLADA : lace makers meetings to work together

PALILLOS / BOBBINS : wodden sticks in which the thread is winded, so it can be used as it is necessary to carry out the work.

PALMAS / PALMS : This motif is made with joined leaves. It looks like a palm.

PALLETA: wooden piece to rool up the finished lace.

PAPEL CUADRICULADO / SQUARED PAPER: paper on which are made most of the Camariñas patterns, mainly the geometric ones. The reason of the use of this paper is that it serves as guideline on which goes repeating the basic module that forms the drawing. The grid serves as guide to build straight lines and angles of 45 ºand 90º that are the most habitual in the geometric lace.

PARES PASADOS / FOOTSIDE PROLONGUED PAIRS: stitchs that are part of the footside and they go in solitary from it to the center and return again to the footside.

PAR ENTERO / WHOLE STITCH : stitch used in the realization of the lace. It is made taking always the same pair as worker and repeating the whole stitch crossing with successive pairs. This stitch is used to form closed parts, giving the visual aspect of an opaque fabric.

PAR ENTERO VOLTEADO / TWISTED WHOLE STITCH: point type used in the realization of lace. It is obtained if before making the whole stitch crossing, we give two or more turns to each pair.

PEINETA : It is composed with darning stitches, braids and, usually, with scallop headside or braids.

PICADO / PRICKING : it is the pattern (cardboard, leather, etc.) for which the artisan is guided to make the work, this pattern is holed in those places where the artisan will place the pins when she carries out the work.

PICADORAS / PRICKING MAKER: women that are devoted exclusively to the work of making prickings that serve as pattern for the elaboration of the lace. They make the prickings by or they sell the prickings of designs that were done by themselves.

PIE /FOOTSIDE: it is one of the fundamental parts of the edging. It is the part for which the lace will be joined to the cloth, for what should have a certain consistency. It is usually made with whole stitch and twisted whole stitch, although variants exist, so much in shape (rectilinear, curvilinear or mixed) like in used techniques.
The most common footside is formed by a zig-zag that goes along the work.

PIQUE / TORCHON GROUND STITCH: To make this stitch two pairs of bobbins are used and three twists or more are given to each pair. Crossing the bobbins of half stitch and putting the pin on, it turns each pair twice again and they cross again of half stitch to close the stitch. This point is used as ground, giving an effect of transparent mesh.

PLUMA / FETHER : lace edging type with great similarity with the feather of a bird due to its lengthened shape, with an central axis and multiple secondary axes. It is made with whole stitch and twisted whole stitch.

PLUMAFLOR: this lace edging is included inside the group of the pluma lace edgings. It is very characteristic in Camariñas and it gives its name to the work that takes it. It is formed by a continuous wavy strip of whole stitch that goes along the whole work. This strip takes a series of joints of twisted whole stitch that maintain their structure, being able to also take darning stitches to hold it.

PLUMILLAS: variant of the feather type edging. Similar to the torchon lace edging, but more lengthened and it receives pairs laterally to hold them one to others.

PUNTILLA / HEAD SIDE : it is usually the part of the edging whose border doesn't join to the cloth. This part doesn't exist in the insertions neither in other lace types that they take footside in all its perimeter. They also exist some works with head side in both borders and without footside.

PUNTILLA DE CORDONES / CORD EDGING : this lace edging type, has as fundamental characteristic the one of being formed by cords. We can find three different forms: hooked to a whole stitch and half stitch base, next to other motives of the center or skirting a lace edging of another type.

PUNTO / STITCH : It is the result of a series of twists and crossings made in a certain order.

RECTILINEO / RECTILINEAR: type of geometric lace in which the straight lines dominate.

RHOMBUSES: this figure is very much used in the Camariñas lace, being their dimensions and the stitches that compose them very varied.

RUEDAS/DIAMONDS: series of rhombuses of small size and a form more or less rounded that can be accentuated with a sedón. These diamonds can be with half stitch or whole stitch and when they are with whole stitch they can have holes in their interior.

SEDÓN / GIMP : thicker thread that the rest of those used in the same work. It is placed between the threads that form the figure and twisting these. It is used in the figures as an outline thread , so that they are better defined.

SIMONA: it is one of the most characteristic lace edgings in the area of Camariñas. This lace edging usually forms an angle of 45º, in which a series of arches are distributed. We can distinguish three spaces in it : the nearest to the lace edging with darning ground stitches, an intermediate space of half stitch, and a third space with a series of arches with tallies, twisted whole stitch and braids with picots.

TELAR / TALLY: darning stitch type. It is made taking the four bobbins two at the time out of two different stitches and finishing in the same way.

TELARES ENLAZADOS / JOINED TALLIES: joined tallies without any stitch beetwen each one of them. Their realization is complex because it requires a great ability on the part of the lace maker.

TELARES EN FILA / ROW OF TALLIES :tallies with two stitches between them. This makes their realization easier since it helps to hold the pairs, so that it doesn't come undone the upper tally.

TIRA SOBREPUESTA / RAISED STRIP: insertion that go next to edging joined by the same footside.

TORSIONES / CLOSED PART IN WHOLE STITCH + TWIST: basic technique for the realization of the fitting. They are made toward the left, we take two bobbinss and we pass the right bobbin on the left one.

TRIÁNGULO DE MEDIO PAR / HALF STITCH TRIANGLE : this figure is formed, as its name indicates, with triangles made with half stitches whose base is located parallel to the footside of the lace. In its making, the torchon ground stitches located in their base don't go in the same line, but rather those that unite them to the footside or another figure, are located more toward out.

VEGETAL / BLOEMWERK : figurative motives. It represents flowers, leaves and branches.

VIRIL / SPIDER : point type used in the realization of the lace. Its form is similar to a spider inscribed in a rhombus (sometimes in a circle or in an oval). To make the spiders it is necessary to have the ground point worked in the superior half of the rhombus. To make it they are given three or more turns to each one of the pairs and then they cross -whole stitch- in the following way: the 1 with the 4, 5 and 6; the 2 with the 4, 5 and 6 and the 3 with the 4, 5 and 6. This way the superior part of the spider is obtained. Repeating the previous operations, but to the inverse, the inferior part is obtained.

ZURCIDO / DARNING GROUND STITCH : crossing type used as basic technic in the realization of the lace. To make this stitch four bobbins are used, always taking the same bobbin as worker, which goes through the other three ones, alternating once for above and another for under.