#Plastic Lace

1 item

A tangle of brightly colored scoubidou / gimp plastic lacing, the material of the lanyard craft
Trends 1958–present

Lanyards

The plastic-lace keychain craft that ran on camp tables and classroom desks — box stitch, cobra, Chinese staircase — in every neon color the gift-shop rack sold. Depending on where you grew up you called it gimp, boondoggle, or scoubidou, and you made yards of it you had no use for.