Are you looking to reach out and serve in the Torah community?
Do you like working with your hands?
The Tassel – Making Party (Tsiytsiyt) is the place to start!
Welcome to the terrain of tassels!
Tassel Training
So you know about tassels, but you’d like to brush up on your expertise. You’re at the right place, click here to fast track to eliyah.com for the video and written instructions.
Meet the Tassel Tutor – Susan
I learned to make tassels at my first Sukkot with Eliyah Ministries. I love doing craft items so I thought this would be fun and I was right. I lived at the time in a very rural area without any real fellowship and since my walk with Yahweh was new to me, I really wanted to find a way to do something pleasing to Yahweh, so I started making tassels and giving them away.
“He had blessed me so abundantly and I just wanted to please him in some small way. Being a senior and on a fixed income, they are not that expensive to make. And while you are making them, your thoughts are centered on the Father, and that is always a good thing.”
Susan’s Instructions
“All you really need is a scrap piece of wood about 12 inches long and about 6 inches wide and a couple of nails about an inch apart one over the other.”
Susan prefers to be cost effective and encourages us to use any excess boards we may have around our dwelling place. Pictured above is an old board she had. Although her board seems to be wide, Susan mentions that the width can be as narrow as three inches.
She continues: “For cordage I make most of them from Aunt Lydia’s #3 cords, white and blue. Numbers 15:38 states that there is to be one blue cord. It really doesn’t state about the other cords, but the standard seems to be white and blue.
“Though I have branched out into using other colors now, also, as long as there is always a blue cord to represent Yahweh.
“The basic wrap is 10-5-6-5 which represents the numerical value of YHWH. The cord lengths are in general 1 blue string 48″ long and 3 white strings 36” long. The blue being longer as that is the one you use to wrap the 10-5-6-5 around the white cords putting a knot between each number of wraps. Once you make a bunch you can really just eyeball the lengths and don’t have to always measure them out once you get a feel for it.
“You fold the cords in half, the blue cord will hang lower obviously. Put across the top nail for the loop bring one side even with the white on the other side and make a knot below the second nail, this will make your loop for attaching to garments. I can’t explain in text the next step to wrap the strings you really need a visual for that part. There is a video on Eliyah.com to show how they are wrapped.
“Once you get experienced in making these, they are really a lot of fun to make. You can use safety pins to attach to garments, loops can be used to put on men’s belt loops and later with more experience you can use lobster claw clasps which makes them even easier to attach to anything.”
Thank you Susan for the instructions!
