Tassel Earring Jewellery- Indian Handmade Jewellery

 

Tassels are a popular vintage motif in antique jewellery, especially tassels that use small, freshwater pearls. Making of these kinds of pieces of jewelry date back to the Edwardian Era, where women loved wearing sautoirs ( sautoir is a French term for a long necklace that suspends a tassel or other ornament) Tassels also look stunning dangling as earrings. One thing I know I will be keeping my eye out for when heading to the JCK Vegas Jewelry Show are these antique tassels.

A tassel is made by binding plaited or otherwise gathered threads from which at one end protrudes a cord on which the tassel is hung, and which may have loose, dangling threads at the other end. Tassels are normally decorative elements, and as such one often finds them attached, usually along the bottom hem, to garments, curtains, pasties covering the nipples of burlesque performers, or other hangings.

A tassel is primarily an ornament, and was at first the casual termination of a cord to prevent unraveling with a knot. As time went on, various peoples developed variations on this, until by the 16th century in France the first Guild of Passementiers was created and documented the art of passementerie. The tassel was its primary expression, but it also included fringes (applied, as opposed to integral), ornamental cords, galloons, pompons, rosettes, and gimps as other forms. Tassels, pompons, and rosettes are point ornaments; the others are linear ornaments.
Swing into Spring with tassel jewellery. Tassels are no longer confined to graduation caps and curtains, they are ready to shine in fierce jewellery.
Tassels on clothing and especially jewelry add such a fun detail to any outfit. If you’re wearing something plain and looking to spruce it up you should add tassel earrings or necklace to add some movement to your look. If you’re not afraid of a little attention put them on the next time you go out dancing. The movement of these pieces will have all eyes on you.