Help in doing a tassle

Decorative
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Here’s a gent in mid-eastern Indiana with a request for help with making a Civil-war era tassle.

I’m up to me t*ts in tax returns!

Brandon Jolly

brandon.jolly@hotmail.com

Mr. Brennan,

  I have been desperately seeking help trying to reproduce a blue and white braided wrapping used on Civil War Flag cord tassels.  I have appealed to local weavers guilds to no avail as well.  I came across your website and saw some items pictured that are similar in principle to what I am trying to do.  I do not have any knotting or weaving experience, but I can read and understand directions and diagrams very well.  The two links below show the same style of wrapping but you can choose a photo and hover the cursor over a particular part to get a good close up.

http://flagcollection.com/itemdetails.php?CollectionItem_ID=3296

http://flagcollection.com/itemdetails.php?CollectionItem_ID=3256

 I do Civil War Living History and reproduce flags and of course put a lot of work in to it.  No one reproduces these wrappings that go over the wood finial of the tassels.  If you could help me, I would greatly, greatly appreciate it.  Thank you for your time.

Regards,

Brandon Jolly

319-360-8307

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa295/frayedknots/TASSLE.jpg

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Passementerie is the art of making these decorative tassels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passementerie. Amazon has several books on the subject. Could not find instructions on line. Tony

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Thanks, Tony! Could not for the life of me remember the “technical” name of such things.