Forum - Requests - Please make a tutorial on wall hangings/tapestries

Esemplastc

Skiller

3 years, 11 months ago by Esemplastc

Hi, I'm going to try to make a wall tapestry/hanging for some of the wider alphas and one of the few tutorials I could find on youtube has a lady with a difficult to understand accent (no offense to her I just have hearing loss and accents are my kryptonite). A tutorial with pictures and typed instructions is preferred.

Things I need to know:
1. Safe methods of cutting the dowels or wooden sticks? If its small enough I can use an X-Acto knife?
2. Does the circumference of the stick matter or can it be any size?
3. What to do with odd number of strings (I think the lady just said to take out a row, is it possible to do these types of tapestries with odd number of strings or could adding a row be a good idea?)
4. I know you use the lark's head knot for the base strings, but what do you do for the string that hangs the tapestry?

That's all I can think of. Anything else you think would need to be explained is welcome. 🙂

zoeyllm

Bracelet King

3 years, 11 months ago by zoeyllm

You can cut them with a exacto knife and circumference does not matter but its better to have smaller ones. I'm not sure what you mean by question four tho.

zoeyllm

Bracelet King

3 years, 11 months ago by zoeyllm

Its better to do them with even amounts of strings. 🙂
Its not to hard to add a row

2006_Mandy

Bracelet King

3 years, 11 months ago by 2006_Mandy

You can cut wooden dowels with anything that can cut through wood. The circumference of a stick does not matter it really is your preference that counts. Odd or even base strings doesn’t matter neither is too hard; if your base strings are uneven use the outer most string as the leading string the other half will still be a base string. Also you can just tie on a string on the two sides of your wall hanging when you are done.

Esemplastc Skiller	3 years, 11 months ago by Esemplastc Hi, I'm going to try to make a wall tapestry/hanging for some of the wider alphas and one of the few tutorials I could find on youtube has a lady with a difficult to understand accent (no offense to her I just have hearing loss and accents are my kryptonite). A tutorial with pictures and typed instructions is preferred. Things I need to know: 1. Safe methods of cutting the dowels or wooden sticks? If its small enough I can use an X-Acto knife? 2. Does the circumference of the stick matter or can it be any size? 3. What to do with odd number of strings (I think the lady just said to take out a row, is it possible to do these types of tapestries with odd number of strings or could adding a row be a good idea?) 4. I know you use the lark's head knot for the base strings, but what do you do for the string that hangs the tapestry? That's all I can think of. Anything else you think would need to be explained is welcome. 🙂
zoeyllm Bracelet King	3 years, 11 months ago by zoeyllm You can cut them with a exacto knife and circumference does not matter but its better to have smaller ones. I'm not sure what you mean by question four tho.
zoeyllm Bracelet King	3 years, 11 months ago by zoeyllm Its better to do them with even amounts of strings. 🙂 Its not to hard to add a row
2006_Mandy Bracelet King	3 years, 11 months ago by 2006_Mandy You can cut wooden dowels with anything that can cut through wood. The circumference of a stick does not matter it really is your preference that counts. Odd or even base strings doesn’t matter neither is too hard; if your base strings are uneven use the outer most string as the leading string the other half will still be a base string. Also you can just tie on a string on the two sides of your wall hanging when you are done.

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Please make a tutorial on wall hangings/tapestries