1. Lanyards

2. Definiton and uses A lanyard is a cord or strap worn around the neck, shoulder or wrist to carry such items as keys or identification cards. In the military, lanyards were used to fire an artillery piece or arm the fuse mechanism on an air-dropped bomb by pulling out a cotter pin (thereby starting the arming delay) when it leaves the aircraft.

3. History Earliest references to lanyards date from 15 th century France: “Lanière” was a strap apparatus. French military used lanyards to connect a pistol, sword or whistle (for signaling) to a uniform semi-permanently. Lanyards were used by cavalry and naval officers at sea. Why do you think these officers used a lanyard?

6. History continued In the military, lanyards of various color combinations and braid patterns are worn on the shoulders of uniforms to denote the wearer’s qualification or regimental affiliation. Can you think of anyone who wears lanyards as a form of qualification or affiliation today?

8. Modern day lanyards Scoubidou (gimp, lanyard, scoubi, scoobie, boondoggle or rex-lace) is a knotting craft, that originated in France using plastic string. It became a fad in the late 1950’s and still remains popular. It was named after the 1958 song of the same name by the French singer Sacha Distel.song of the same name Most common use is for key chains and for decoration.

9. Knots Box stitch (aka square stitch) is the most common. Two strands are used in this method. Four strands can be used to make a double box stitch, thus doubling the size. Spiral stitch (aka barrel stitch) is a slight modification of the box stitch.

10. Modern day lanyards con’t Paracord (aka parachute cord or 550 cord) is a lightweight nylon rope originally used in the suspension lines of parachutes. Cord is useful for many other tasks and is now used as a general purpose utility cord by both military personnel and civilians. The yarn of the core (commonly called “the guts”) can be removed when finer string is needed, for sewing thread, or fishing line. These functions make it useful in “survival situations”.

13. Knots The Cobra knot is the most common one. One length of cord is used but two or more can be used to add thickness and material.

14. What are we going to do? You are going to make a minimum of two lanyards. -One Scoobi and one paracord -Two Scoobi -Two paracord

15. Let's start with some practice Box Stitch This will count for a practice grade... not to be counted as a final project grade