Simply Tassels: The Creative Art of Design

Add tactile interest to everything-from drapes to handbags, bookmarks to hairpins--and spark your creativity, too! Tassels bring movement and visual pleasure to your home, your fashions, and your life. With these new, exciting, and artistic ideas, you'll feel inspired to craft dozens of different styles, from the simplest to those with spectacular skirts and ornaments, like colorful wrapped rings. An overview (with plenty of pictures and diagrams) shows how to make a basic tassel from molds, including a few fancy knots and cords. But, what will really catch your eye are the innovative techniques for personalizing tassels with texture, color, ribbons, fabric, and much more. Bedazzling variations include shisha mirror embroidering, lovely intricate picot edging, and glistening beads, bangles, and bells.