Running 54 miles from Talihena, Oklahoma to Mena, Arkansas, the Talimena Drive provides evidence for the saying that you shouldn’t go to southern Oklahoma at night, because in the dark you’d miss the beauty.

The road is the main thoroughfare through the Ouachita National Forest, an almost two million acre swath of old-growth oak, elm, and cedar trees in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The Ouachita Mountains themselves are one of the largest mountain ranges between the Rockies and the Appalachians, and, unlike those ranges, the Ouachitas run east and west.

The Talimena Shawl is a simple lace piece featuring an Elm leaf motif and a scalloped border that echoes the tops of the Ouachitas.

The pattern is charted without written translation.
The shawl knitted as written has a 64 inch wingspan and a 35 inch center spine.

please download Talimena v1.2 for the current version