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Various purse tassels and knopsroll your mouse over the thumbnails to see an enlarged image. Various little tassels using many different techniques which have decorated purses and bags. The blue tassel show the technique known as 'limace spirale' on the pear-shaped mould. |
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| These purse knops form the decoration of a reconstruction of a medieval purse, more details of which can be found here. | ||
| This tassel head is a work-in-progress; an attempt to work out the method of creating a two-colour netted tassel top, as found on two chemise-bound books from 1504. One, The Foundation Charter of Henry VIIs Chapel at Westminster (PRO, London E.33/1), was shown at the Gothic Exhibition at the V&A. | ||
| Another version of the netting technique shown above, this time in gold thread and filament silk. | ||
| These tassels were made to finish a small coin purse - more details of which can be seen here. | ||
| The turks' head top is a very common way of finishing tassels throughout history. The tassels below are from a purse I made (more about this here). | ||
| This silk and silver thread tassel is based on ones found on chemise bindings - this is an experiment to see if I could reproduce the two colour chevron pattern, also known as 'point de milan'. The pattern is worked over a wooden core. | ||
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Working from photographs, this is my first attempt at trying to work out the method used on the tassels of the very intricately embroidered sweetbags from the 16th and 17th centuries. It seems that there may be a few different ways of doing these tassels, which might indicate different locations of manufacture. |
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These bridal bag tassels are made from silk chenille threads and wooden moulds. The syling is inspired by Regency and Victorian tassels. |
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| These purse knops were created to finish a medieval style silk frame purse. (you can see more of this purse here). | ||
| Click the links below to see examples of other tassels and knops in more detail. Should you wish to discuss your requirements, please contact Gina. | ||
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Tassel & Knop Types and styles (work-in-progress) |
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