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title: "Tassel"
description: "A tassel is an ornament made of a bundle of threads or cords bound together at one end and hanging loose at the other."
type: Glossary
url: https://teazle.art/glossary/tassel
published: 2026-10-14
updated: 2026-10-14
author: "The Teazle editors"
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# Tassel

*A tassel is an ornament made of a bundle of threads or cords bound together at one end and hanging loose at the other.*

Tassels finish cords, cushions, curtains, caps and garments. Elaborate ones have a carved or wrapped head and skirts of twisted silk; they belong to the craft of [passementerie](https://teazle.art/glossary/passementerie.md).


## Sources

1. [Tassel (AAT 300232185)](http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300232185). Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
2. [Tassel (Q1194132)](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1194132). Wikidata

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