Comparing tassel heights between styles. First are American, second are French-style, made in California. Heights vary from a foot to fifteen inches. Dictionary.com defines a tassel as a pendent "consisting commonly of a bunch of threads, small cords, or other strands hanging from a roundish knob or head, used on clothing, in jewelry, on curtains, etc."
Here we have a "bunch of threads" transformed by facile craftsmen to the point of being an art form, not to mention beautiful and fun. How to pick the best of? I like them all but am partial to the ones at the left from Kravetz next to the ruler, as they are neither over nor under designed.
