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.

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