"It looks to me like the anther and filament parts that make up the stamen from a fake flower. The string would be folded in half so that the 'kernels' are at the same end, and the part with the red stain would be at the bottom of the inside of the flower. The red stain makes me think that the petals were red and the dye has run."

"I can confirm that’s exactly what this is. My mom used to yell at me all the time for pulling these out of her fake flowers. I used them as bolas for my action figures."