Scooby wire

[Rhona]

One thing I remember as a kid was standing outside the door of the swimming pool waiting for it to open, and twisting colours of 'scooby wire' to make both wrist and neck bands. I can still clearly see these primative pieces of jewelery. The 'scooby wire' came in very thin lengths of wire and was covered in various plastic colours, which we used to twist and wrap around itself................aaaggghh!! I can't explain it...........please tell me some-one else remembers doing this.........Oh one other thing, I think the wire came from telephone wire; when you peeled back the thicker plastic coating the inside would have about ten strands of the thinner 'scooby' in varying colours.... Anybody???

[barb (Fry)]

oh yes, scooby wire.  Definitely remember - (still available now, but the health and safety laws it is bought without the copper wire inside the plastic sleeve.)

Later as a teenager I learned to weave similar bracelets (friendship) out of embroidery cotton.

[Bev Coates (Now Walker)]

yes i remember these too.....we dod have them here now......became popular only a few years ago.....

[Michael Alexander]

Good One Rhona.... I remember those also..... the two ovambo telephone techies in the 70's were called Thomas (deceased) and Martins... we kids used to hang around them all afternoon while they worked just so we could get our hands on the wire.... I also remember some of us making Katties and shooting scooby doo wire clips..... very sore stuf....

[Barbara Eia (Brownless)]

I remember when i was very young and living in Tsumeb before i moved to oranjemund doing scooby doo bracelets.
We used to hang around the telephone poles when cables were getting fixed as this was where we got the wire from, they came in the the cable in all sorts of colours. We used to pull the copper wire out and make jewerley with the plastic. I bought some in the shops here about 5 months ago to make my niece bracelets amwzing how one remembers how to do them after such a long time.

[Rhona]

Of course you remember scooby wire Mike; sure I was probably one of the kids with you guys waiting for the wire from the telephone techies an dit was more than likely my leg that got hit by the scooby wire clips..........Remind me again, why we are friends?

[SandyB]

The big  acid  bottles  decorated  with   woven  scooby  wire .. that  was  painstaking  work  undertaken  by   some of  the  Owambos in  the  hostels  ...

[Delia]

that scooby wire craze is still around after all these years - my daughter has bits of it lying everywhere, some woven, some not - every now and again, she'll sit and weave something - first time I saw her with it, the memories came flooding back of us kids doing it o'mund - funny how some crazes fade away and others not.............

[georg ruf jr.]

nobody would bother making anything out of waste here as you can buy all sorts of cr*p to make your "jewelery" very cheap.
but I remember that well Michael. I also remember how hard it was getting wire. Then I had so much I wouldn't bother anymore. As Delia said. Craves come and go, and others stay forever.