A beautiful pair of antique French passementerie tassel tiebacks, dating to the late 19th century and sourced from a French château. The cord is a substantial multi-colour twisted rope construction in slate blue, silver-sage, and warm gold — a richly tactile piece of hand-crafted passementerie work that would have once held back the grand draperies of a French country house. The tassel heads are elegantly built with a woven diamond-lattice collar above a full netted fringe skirt studded with small knotted pompom accents. Age wear throughout — obvious defects, beautiful charm.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ITEM DETAILS • Type: Pair of curtain / drapery tassel tiebacks • Quantity: Two individual tassel tiebacks, each with its own separate cord and single tassel (sold as a pair, not joined as one piece) • Colour: Slate blue, silver-sage, and warm gold / tan • Cord: Multi-colour twisted rope construction; rounded, sculptural profile • Cord length (each): approx. 60 inches / 152 cm • Tassel construction: Woven diamond-lattice collar above a full netted fringe skirt with knotted pompom accents, finished with a wrapped wood bead near the tassel head • Material: Silk and/or cotton threads over a wood core — typical of French 19th century passementerie • Country of origin: France • Provenance: French château — late 19th century estate find • Era: circa 1880–1900
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ MEASUREMENTS • Each tassel total length: approx. 10 inches / 25.4 cm • Fringe / skirt length: approx. 5 inches / 12.7 cm • Body / head length: approx. 5 inches / 12.7 cm • Cord length (each): approx. 60 inches / 152 cm
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONDITION NOTES • Age wear consistent with approximately 140 years of use — please review all photos carefully before purchasing • Fraying and loose fibres visible throughout the netted fringe and tassel skirts — clearly shown in photos • Wood core visible through worn thread wrapping at the bead on each cord • Some discolouration and softening of colour throughout — genuine antique patina • Overall structure intact — both tassels and cords hold together well • Sold as found ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERFECT FOR • Interior decorators and set designers seeking authentic period pieces • Antique textile and passementerie collectors • Curtain, drapery and bed hanging styling — period interiors, country houses, châteaux • Mirror, picture frame or decorative display hanging • Film, theatre and photographic prop use
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SHIPPING Carefully packed to protect the tassel heads and cord. Combined shipping available if purchasing multiple items from my store.