Method of renewing decorative tassels
OwnerTed K. Sproulinventor
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Abstract
A method of renewing decorative tassels after they have become unsightly from wearing of an item to which they are attached, particularly shoes wherein the one or more tassels is made up of strands of moisture-absorbent leather or synthetic leather extending integrally side-by-side from a stem base attached to the shoe. The method comprises encasing the tassel, as straightened and rearranged, in a tube length of heat-shrink material; applying moisture to the strands of the tassel; heating the heat-shrink tube along its length to shrink it tightly against the tassel as straightened and rearranged, so as to press it into renewed condition; and removing the shrunken tube from the renewed tassel substantially without disturbing the straightened and rearranged strands thereof.
Claims7
A method of placing moisture-absorbent strands of a decorative tassel into renewed condition after they have become disarranged by use of items to which they are attached, comprising applying moisture to said strands;
- encasing the strands in a tube of heat-shrinkable material in substantially the desired renewal arrangement;
- applying heat to the resulting encased tassel in its said renewal arrangement to shrink said tube about the rearranged strands of the tassel;
- and removing the heat shrunken tube after substantial drying of the moistened strands substantially without disturbing the heat-shrink, tube-pressed, renewed arrangement of said strands.
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