tassel

She’s never done anything with a couch other than add a tassel or two — that’s the extent of her couch play.

A few tables away, Alexandra Derderian, a video editor wearing the same rainbow tassel earrings as her plush giraffe puppet, was chatting with Michael Esparza and his bright orange Muppet-like counterpart, Melvin.

As he yanked on it the thread pulled up a tassel, which topped a funny little red hat.

I had an ancestress with a long gray tail and eyes as beady as mine, and her name was Katinka Van Tassel.

"The figure, supposed to represent Prince Philip in his robes as vice-chancellor of Cambridge University with mortar board and tassel, is cast in bronze but painted black and white, with a twisted bronze abstract 'head'," she said on her website.