tassels: 13th century - mid 14th century

These tassels were made for a member of The Liebaart. I used:

• Aurora fine 2 ply spun silk in blue and red
• yellow embroidery: Devere Yarn, 1200 dernier filament silk
• linen core
  
• size: ca 2, 5 * 6 cm
  

This type of tassels were used in the 13th and 14th century, until ca 1350. Pictures of similar tassels can be found in:

• Hoving, T., Husband, T., Hayward, J. (1975), The secular spirit: Life and art at the end of the Middle Ages: New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art v

• Schneider, J. (1975), Textilien. Catalog der Sammlung des Schweizerischen Landesmuseums Zürich, Zürich: Verlag Berichthaus

• Wilckens von, L. (1991), Die textilen Künste. Von der Spätantike bis um 1500, München, Verlag CH Beck

For online pictures, click here (insert LM 1825 a, LM 1825 b), here or here.