sentences:  They are also used in furniture trimming, such as the Centripetal Spring Armchair of 1849 and some lampshades, draperies, fringes and tassels.In the West, tassels were originally a series of windings of thread or string around a suspending string until the desired curvature was attained.Decades later, turned wooden moulds, which were either covered in simple wrappings or much more elaborate coverings called "satinings", were used.