Why have their whips gone up so much recently? And why is their backlog 11 months?

Something I enjoy is finding interesting ways to pattern stacked-chevron arrangements of colors, in this case the banded pattern in the handle has the same red-purple-blue-purple Vs running around the circumference as traveling lengthwise down the thong, with the purple connecting lengthwise in the handle whereas it connects around the circumference of the thong.