page_title: Scoubidou
section_title: Making objects
hierarchical_section_title: Scoubidou / Making objects
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a dragon made with lanyard (scoubidou) strings. More than 60 different strings were used to make it. Here is a tutorial of how to make it , check it out on this link - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv2OA1TMU9-RNKehW03-KekSebdY55wSd
context_page_description: Scoubidou is a knotting craft, originally aimed at children. It originated in France, where it became a fad in the late 1950s and has remained popular. It is named after the 1958 song of the same name by the French singer Sacha Distel.
  Scoubidou returned to fashion in various countries, including the United Kingdom, in 2004 and 2005. It uses commercially supplied plastic strips or tubes.
  The most common kind of thread used for the craft is flat and comes in many colors. Another kind of scoubidou thread is supple, round and hollow plasticized PVC tubes usually about 80 centimetres in length. They are sold in various colors, sizes and types, and are used to make items by binding them together with knots. On account of their elasticity and hollow cross-section—which allow them to collapse and deform when pulled—they form tight and stable knots. Key chains, friendship bands and other trinkets are most commonly woven, although more complicated shapes and figures can also be created.
  Most of the knots used in scoubidou were already used in bast fibre, while the creations possible with scoubidou are similar to traditional corn dollies and macrame.
context_section_description: Creations such as dragons, Eiffel towers, bridges and birds can be made by putting wires inside the stitch to keep it stable, and to be able to bend the stitch and keep it bent.
caption: This is a dragon made with lanyard (scoubidou) strings. More than 60 different strings were used to make it.
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