Passementerie

[1] Styles of passementerie include the tassel, fringes (applied, as opposed to integral), ornamental cords, galloons, pompons, rosettes, and gimps, as well as other forms.

The tassel was its primary expression, but it also included fringes (applied, as opposed to integral), ornamental cords, galloons, pompons, rosettes, and gimps as well as others.

The French widely exported their very artistic work, and at such low prices that no other nation developed a mature "trimmings" industry.

On 6 May 1593 the Duke of Lennox and his friends decided not to wear any passementerie for a year, especially "passements great or small, plain or 'a jour', bissets, lilykins, cordons, and fringes".

[5] In England, specialist merchants known as "silkmen" supplied passementerie, including Benjamin Henshawe who provided a variety of lace and tassels for clothing and interior decoration to Anne of Denmark and Henrietta Maria.

[6] Passementerie with clothing was for a long time reserved for the elites as a sign of social distinction among royalty, aristocracy, religious, and military.