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A seal for a flexible filament for non-removable attachment of a filament to an article, the seal comprising a filament; a housing defining a chamber having an axis, an opening through the housing in communication with the chamber and lying in a plane transverse the axis, said opening being sufficiently large for receiving there through fIrst and second portions of said filament in side-by-side communicating relation in said plane; a rotor in the chamber having at least one bore and rotatable about the axis, the at least one bore in the rotor being alignable with the opening in said plane for receiving said filament; and one way motion means for permitting the rotor to be relatively rotated with respect to the housing in only one direction about the axis for wrapping said filament received in said at least one bore and in the opening about said rotor to secure the filament to the rotor and housing; characterized in that in a locking mode of the seal a third filament portion extends from the second filament portion received in the opening, said third filament portion being removably received in said rotor bore, and in that a fourth filament portion extends from the fIrst filament portion received in the opening in side-by-side communicating relation with the second filament portion in said plane, said fourth filament portion being wrapped about the rotor and thereby securing the fourth filament portion to the rotor.