Tassels can be anywhere from clothes to menus to curtains to costumes. This book shows the reader how to creat and use tassels in an abundance of ways. Photographs from Nancy Welch's collection accompany her step-by-step instructions and drawings.
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Decorative tassels are one of the elements of the Renaissance craft of passementerie, developed in Italy and France to embellish furniture and interior hangings. Until recently, very few were made outside the drapery and upholstery trade. Tassels have now become art objects. Using techniques similar to macrame, tassel-makers fashion simple ornaments of colored cord or elaborate creations shaped around a molded core. An author of cookbooks and garden books, Welch here provides an interesting summary of the uses of tassels around the world and a gallery of tassels by contemporary artists, as well as a section of step-by-step projects for making a variety of simple tassels. For elaborate, complex tassels crafters may want to consult Susan Dickens's The Art of Tassel Making (Allen & Unwin, 1994), which has more advanced projects.
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- PublisherLark Books
- Publication date1899
- ISBN 10 0937274534
- ISBN 13 9780937274538
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages144
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