Beaded Tassels, Braids & Fringes

By Valerie Campbell-Harding

Book Overview

'Campbell Harding adds beads in a variety of beading patterns to her tassels, creating delightful lacy baubles that can be used to embellish curtains, lampshades, or clothing... (A( good addition...' - Library Journal. Use them to adorn pillows, evening bags, or even a dress - beaded tassels add sparkle to anything. Make them yourself, in bright, marvellous colour, with beads of different shapes and twisted, braided threads. You probably already own most of the basic equipment at home, and here are the ins and outs of choosing, mixing, bleaching, and painting beads, with hundreds of diagrams and photos of different options for making cords and tassels, skirts, fringes and heads.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806948396
• ISBN13: 9780806948393
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Sterling
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 0.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

beautiful projects

This book gives complete instructions on making beautiful tassels from many different materials. The photos and examples are excellent.

An excellent and valued addition to my beading bookshelf!!

I bought this book after looking at it for about 20 seconds. I was not disappointed. Its' main topic is making tassels out of beads, however in the course of describing, making, and displaying her creations in this book, there arise a lot of different and unusual tricks, techniques and ways with beads. This book is great if you want to make beaded tassels; if you work with beads and need some new ideas and inspirations; or, if the creative well is running dry and you need to graze in some new territory. I do work with beads in peyote, sculptural peyote, Ndebele, brickstitch, squarestitch and wired floral work. I found the instructions in this book for the beading techniques quite good, however, if you have no experience in the above techniques and intend to learn the techniques from this book I don't think that will work. You do need prior knowledge with at least peyote stitch and brick stitch to make many, but not all of the tassels described. Other than that, which is more of a heads up than a critisism, I would highly recommend this book to any and all beadworkers and creative persons everywhere. An excellent and valued addition to my beading bookshelf.