Russia has long been famous for its crafts and crafts, the most elegant of which is lace-making. Lace is a European art. As an openwork ornament created by various interweaving of threads and existing independently, without any woven base, it appeared in Russia at the turn of the XV-XVI centuries. Let's turn to the sphere of names of the lace business. Here we find a high prevalence of metaphorical transference. The life of a word in the new "field" begins with the application of its old name to new objects and phenomena in terms of content. Terms formed by metaphorical hyphenation of the name are quantitatively the broadest group in all craft and craft terminology systems. Our observations have shown that most of the terms of lace making are formed by comparing the external features of objects (shape, general appearance, color). This is manifested primarily in the naming of drawings and patterns, for example: burdock, burdock, leaves, leaves, leaves, trees, flowers, flowers. The word burdock has a number of meanings, we will give only one: "pattern in the form of jagged leaves page 118 or flowers", which develops as a secondary one by metaphorical transfer of the name based on the external similarity of realities (a plant → a pattern similar to its leaves or flowers). Ornaments with elements in the form of any repeating leaves were designated by the lexemes leaves, leaves, leaflets. The Dictionary of the Russian Language of the XI-XVII centuries indicates for leaf and leaflet the meaning of "pattern in the form of plant leaves", which develops as a secondary one by metaphorical transfer of the name based on the external similarity of realities. A type of plant ornament, including a stylized image of trees, in the Old Russian language was called a tree. The main meaning of the word tree is "diminutive to tree", and its semantic evolution is similar to those previously described. Ornaments with elements in the form of any repeating flowers were designated by generic ... Read more