G’day Everyone, I’m trying to model a tassel (one of those stringy bits ontop of a graduating hat or tying up curtains http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tassel ). I’d like to be able to animate the rope part and the end fibers, like blowing in the wind. Any ideas on where to start as been testing out cloth and even game engine ideas and can’t find anything that comes remotely close?
To animate the tassel bits, use hair emitter and a wind field with maximum noise 
that should work lovely for the tassels, however I do not know how to do this for the rope, sorry 