Fun with Chinese Knotting - Making Your Own Fashion Accessories & Accents

Fun with chinese Knotting-(Berkeiey)

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116 HORIZONTAL WEAVE TASSEL

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4 The tassel is completed by

sewing the two ends of the lati-

tudinal cord into the tassel head.

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Horizontal Weave Tassel

This tassel has a head tied with longitudinal and latitudinal cords. The longi-

tudinal cords are fixed in position, but the latitudinal cords can be inserted in

a variety of ways to produce different results.

Tying

Fold an odd number of cords to make the longitudinal cords and wrap them

around a cylinder. After the cylinder is covered, start weaving the latitudinal

threads, one by one in and out of the longitudinal cords, then sew each end

into the tassel head. Finally, hook the cord ends of the already completed knot

formation into the tassel head with a crochet hook and sew in place.

Tips

• After tying each longitudinal cord to the cylinder, fasten it at the bottom
  of the cylinder with a thread to keep it taut, then only start weaving in the
  latitudinal cords.


• Irregular weaving of the latitudinal cord will create different patterns or even
  “words of good luck” on the tassel head.

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Horizontal Weave Tassels

Once the longitudinal cords are tied

on the cylinder and sewn in place,

weave latitudinal cords of a different

color in and out to form the Chinese

character “luck” – or any other word.

WEAVING A MESSAGE