It looks like it would fit loosely on a wrist. Not stretchy material but it can be tightened/adjusted.
What is this red and neon yellow rope thing? Kinda looks like a bracelet?
It looks like it would fit loosely on a wrist. Not stretchy material but it can be tightened/adjusted.
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YoFrodo@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 155d
It is just a bracelet. They used to hand these out when I was a kid. https://i.imgur.com/Nm8NWEm.jpeg
hesh@quokk.au · 19 pts · 155d
Hard to imagine someone never seeing these before
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 155d
When I hear friendship bracelets I usually think of this:
Or this:
I do have a vague childhood memory/mental image of this dickhead older bully with an undercut being decked out in bugle boy and wearing a similar patterned bracelet to the one in the main post. I didn't realize his was a friendship bracelet though.
Also just wasn't sure how this one ended up in my living room, but it makes sense if it was a party favor or something.
realitista@lemmus.org · 3 pts · 155d
Yeah they expanded rapidly from the ones shown to all the other varieties. Though I don't remember the ones with letters in the original '90s fad.
Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 155d
It's a friendship bracelet. Back in the late 80s and early 90s friendship bracelets were super popular in elementary and middle schools. The idea was that you and your friends would make them by hand and give them to each other. I'm sure they're probably low key still a thing, but their popularity at the time was pretty much on par with how popular fidget spinners were a few years ago, so you could buy mass-produced ones in all the same places you could buy fidget spinners: gas stations, grocery stores, etc. This was the most common style of mass-produced one.
wizrad@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 155d
Looks like a pretty shitty prusik loop. Usually used in climbing or other ropes applications. A good prusik would be of a better rope quality and the knots would be more robust but same principle. More likely a summer camp bracelet of some kind.
merde@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 155d
more like a fisherman's knot. When you pull on it, they will hold tighter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisherman%27s_knot
Mac@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 154d
Yes, except that it appears to be a double fisherman's, like your example picture from Wikipedia. It's hard to tell, though, tbh.
gws@programming.dev · 2 pts · 149d
It's a double. The knot has that nice x-shaped crossover and the end points straight out instead of angling like the single fisherman's bend does before it's pulled up tight.
merde@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 154d
fisherman's knot always looks like that till you tug on the line/rope to lock it tight.
up there in the loop they just used it keep the size adjustable
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 4 pts · 155d
Just for those of you that don’t know what’s a Prusik loop