A Feast Of Fringing

Arrived home late last night to find on the doorstep a thank you card from neighbours Nick and Nat for dinner on Saturday ( we had  a great time, they stayed way  past pumpkin time !) and a bag containing this wonderful  fringing. It's got 3 layers of fringe most of it uncut and is a sample of something probably fantastically expensive. What to use it for?  Perhaps some kind of sea creature vessel?
Getting unexpected gifts like this reminds me of the trouser legs and half shirts  of charity shop hauls  Sue used to post through the letterbox  when we lived nearer.