From curtains, blinds, bedcovers, and furniture to cushions, throws, lampshades, and photo frames - absolutely any item in your home can be updated, customized, and given a fresh new look, simply and easily. In "Ribbons and Trims", Annabel Lewis, founder of Europe"s famous ribbons and trimmings company, V.V.Rouleaux, provides a wealth of ideas and step-by-step projects for ways to decorate and embellish items all around the home. This unique and creative guide offers simple techniques for making accessories like tassels, knots, braids, flowers, and tiebacks, as well as 25 projects with clear instructions for creating pieces that are upholstered with ribbon or trimmed with feathers, shells, beads, or buttons. There are also inspiring ideas for every room in the home - whether it"s embellishing your entryway walls with stripes of elegant grosgrain ribbon, decorating a dining table with customized place card holders or dressing your everyday coat hangers in luscious...