They wear a velvet mortarboard, similarly trimmed with gold braid and tassel. A tassel or sword knot may be attached to the guard or pommel. Sometimes, the pattern thistle decorated cantle and tassel tops. The "punchra" work is imitated with inexpensive machine-made tassel trim. In later times a "sword knot" or "tassel" was sometimes added. Sometimes a tassel is attached to the hilt. The apex of the stem ends in the tassel, an inflorescence of male flowers. In US graduation ceremonies, the side on which the tassel hangs can be important. After they graduated, they wore the square cap with the tassel at the normal length. Teosintes strongly resemble maize in many ways, notably their tassel (male inflorescence) morphology. Only one tassel is worn at a time. It is red in Tunisia, and lacks a tassel. He invented the handheld calculator (along with Jerry Merryman and James Van Tassel). The peak's name is Tassel Hill. After the introduction of Ashtar by Van Tassel, other mediums began to claim contact.