Google Doodle pays homage to scoubidou knotting in a handcrafted ...

On September 12, 2015, the people of La-Chapelle-Saint-Ursin, France, set a unique

Guinness World Record

for the longest scoubidou. The

scoubidou

was shaped like a house and was 990 meters (3,248 ft) long.
Google has created a doodle that honors the scoubidou thread-knotting craft, which traces its origins back to the 1950s. The Google Doodle website update explains that this craft saw a revival during the 2000s in the United Kingdom.

In the updated doodle, the letters of the word ‘Google’ have been designed using scoubidou thread crafting.
This celebration of scoubidous—colorful threads that are knotted together in various ways to create complex designs and crafts—became a fad in the late 1950s and received its name from the 1958 song of the same name by the French singer Sacha Distel.
Parents gave their children thin ropes, who created fun patterns and

knots

with them. This became a popular recreational activity for the young ones, who spent hours creating their perfect designs. The unusual threads are flat and colorful, known as lanyards or ‘gimp threads,’ but there are threads that can be round and hollow too and are made of plastic PVC.

The children made keychains, friendship bracelets, and much more using their creativity. The most common stitch is the square stitch used for making keychains. Other kinds of knots include the barrel knot, double spiral knot, cobra twist, Chinese staircase, and butterfly stitch. The craft is so popular in some countries that parents organize themed parties where children can come together and try new thread designs.