Scoubidou
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Scoubidou (Scoubi, Scoobie, Boondoggle in the USA or "gimp" in Canada and parts of the USA) is a plaiting and knotting craft, originally aimed at children, which originated in France, where it became a fad in the 1960s. It came back into fashion in various countries, including the United Kingdom, in 2004 and 2005. It uses commercially supplied plastic strips or tubes.
Scoubidous are supple, round, hollow plastic tubes usually about 80 centimetres in length. They are sold in various colours, sizes and types. They are used to make various items by binding them together with special knots. Key chains, friendship bands and other trinkets are common, 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 also similar in many ways to traditional corn dollys and to macrame.
For examples of Scoubidous in popular culture, see the cult movie Napoleon Dynamite (2004).
In July 2004 German and Dutch research showed that scoubidou appears to contain an excessive amount of phthalates.
Scoubidou is also a song by Sacha Distel and was formerly the title of the cartoon Scooby-Doo in French.
