Hi there, welcome to another Friday Findings video. Today I thought I would show you how
to make a quick chain tassel. These are great to use as accessories and
as add ons to pendants or as a focal point all on its own. I was inspired by this art
glass bead by Nancy Tobey, it's a lampwork bead and I felt like it just needed to have
a little something to accent it. So what you'll need to make a tassel, first
of all is a bead cap. Now some will work better than others. You want a bead cap first of
all that's deep. This one really is too shallow. We're going to be having chains and wire work
and they need to be hidden inside. Also, you don't want something that's wide and open
like this filigree cap because again it won't hide our ends.
So anything like this, this one is nice and deep. These would be lovely.
So any one of these. I've decided that this one will work with my bead.
And then you'll need some chain. Now you can make it all the same chain, you can use a
variety of chain like I did on this one, I just have all different chains under the cap.
That looks kind of interesting. I even have this little bits dangling from the end. So
I'm going to use this chain. Now to decide the length that you want each
of your pieces of chain, remember that it's going to go up inside the cone. And then to
reduce bulk we can actually fold it in half. So I think this long is long enough. So I'm
actually going to grab it right there with chain nose pliers. And this will end up being
the center link of my length of chain. And then I'm just going to twist off this
link down here and make all of my lengths of chain the same. And I've already done that.
The next thing you'll need is just a piece of wire. This is some simple 20 gauge craft
wire and just bend a "U" shape in it and then slide on the center links of all of your chains.
You can make your tassel links so that they're all exactly the same length or you can make
them different and varied, whatever look you want.
So once you have all of your links on there, all you're going to do up here is make a wrapped
loop. And it doesn't have to be neat or pretty because it's going to be hidden, so I'm not
even using a tool. I'm just going to wrap that wire around, trim off the excess.
I do like to squash these down a little just to maximize the amount of the ends that are up
inside the bead cap. And then you just slide that whole thing right
up on to your bead cap. Now some bead caps have a really big hole up here and your wires
will start to actually come through. If that happens just feel free to plunk a bead on
here first, like a small bead that will act as a stop.
And then you could just make a wire wrapped loop up here, you can string on your beads,
so let's see how that looks. Oh, that accents it very nicely. You can stack beads too. Like
here are some of the coordinating beads that came with her beads. Go on stack some bead
caps, and then this one, now you have yourself quite a nice focal.
Another thing you can do is add beads to the ends of your tassel, so here's this tassel,
and here are little top drilled beads and I've just put them on jump rings so I can
add them to the ends of this chain. And so here's that all done with the beads
on the bottom and that's kind of a fun look. You could use crystals like I have here, you
could use pearls, you could use charms, all kinds of things.
So, I hope this has given you some ideas for the way you can make a tassel to accent your jewelry
or like this piece; just wire wrap a loop and put it on a piece of cord and you have a necklace.
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