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(auralynne) how to make a tribal tassel
Since I'm bored today, how about a completely random how to?
1. Find a hardcover book that is about as tall as you want your tassel to be. Wrap yarn around your book longways. Number of wraps depends on how thick you want your tassel to be, but probably somewhere between 100 to 150. You can make mixed-color tassels by wrapping 2 or three colors at the same time. It's actually a bit faster doing mixed-color tassels because you'll only need to make half or one third the wraps. To hold the loose end of the yarn in place, before you begin, wrap it around one of your fingers on the hand you'll use to hold the book while wrapping. Eventually the rest of the yarn will help hold it in place.
2. Wrap and count!
3. Cut 3 pieces of yarn that are about 3 times the length you'd like your tassel hanger string to be. Slip all three underneath the wrapped yarn where the pages of the book are (that's why I said hardcover, since the cover is a bit bigger than the pages you can just barely get them under.) Loop, and slip under once more (this extra loop makes it easier to tie it tighter) and tie them tight around the wrapped yarn.
4. Braid the six ends (2 in each portion) together to make your hanging string.
5. At the opposite end of the book, cut the wrapped yarn.
6. You should now have your tassel completely separate from your book. Cut a long piece of yarn and tie it around your tassel so that one piece is about 2 " longer than the tassel and the other is very long, but only tie once, don't knot it yet. Turn the tassel around and tie to the other side, pulling as tight as you can. Now knot it.
7. Take the shorter piece and smooth it down with the rest of the yarn hanging from the tassel, and wrap the long piece down around till the cincher is thick. Then, grab the short piece back up and tie them together.
8. Trim off the messy ends. It is best to make your cincher in the same, or a similar color to the tassel, so that the two hanging ends blend in with the rest of the tassel.
Tadaa!
1. Find a hardcover book that is about as tall as you want your tassel to be. Wrap yarn around your book longways. Number of wraps depends on how thick you want your tassel to be, but probably somewhere between 100 to 150. You can make mixed-color tassels by wrapping 2 or three colors at the same time. It's actually a bit faster doing mixed-color tassels because you'll only need to make half or one third the wraps. To hold the loose end of the yarn in place, before you begin, wrap it around one of your fingers on the hand you'll use to hold the book while wrapping. Eventually the rest of the yarn will help hold it in place.
2. Wrap and count!
3. Cut 3 pieces of yarn that are about 3 times the length you'd like your tassel hanger string to be. Slip all three underneath the wrapped yarn where the pages of the book are (that's why I said hardcover, since the cover is a bit bigger than the pages you can just barely get them under.) Loop, and slip under once more (this extra loop makes it easier to tie it tighter) and tie them tight around the wrapped yarn.
4. Braid the six ends (2 in each portion) together to make your hanging string.
5. At the opposite end of the book, cut the wrapped yarn.
6. You should now have your tassel completely separate from your book. Cut a long piece of yarn and tie it around your tassel so that one piece is about 2 " longer than the tassel and the other is very long, but only tie once, don't knot it yet. Turn the tassel around and tie to the other side, pulling as tight as you can. Now knot it.
7. Take the shorter piece and smooth it down with the rest of the yarn hanging from the tassel, and wrap the long piece down around till the cincher is thick. Then, grab the short piece back up and tie them together.
8. Trim off the messy ends. It is best to make your cincher in the same, or a similar color to the tassel, so that the two hanging ends blend in with the rest of the tassel.
Tadaa!
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Method of attaching them would depend on how you are making your belt I suppose. I make my belt bases and decorate them myself so I'd just make the tassels first and sew them in to the belt base, then do decorations last. But if you have a banjara or kuchi belt that's already done you'd probably want to handsew the tassels to the belt then maybe handsew a binding tape over the ends if leaving them visible bugs you. I think I will post a pic of suggestions on this eventually!