Mechanical tests designed to measure classical behavior do not provide information underlying the macroscale response. Multiscalar digital image correlation (DIC) can be employed in these experiments to expose the micro-mechanisms that lead to the emergent macroscale behavior. DIC was performed at macroscale in which the underlying microstructure is overlooked and the construct is treated as a continuum bar. Further, the underlying microstructure was exploited in a microscale DIC analysis to expose the rich deformation regimes. In addition, mesoscale analysis was carried out to extract the rigid body motions that characterize a granular material system. These analyses were performed for two types of surface patterns and measurement uncertainties were quantified. The microscale results show that the grain string can be treated as a granular material composed of a set of nearly rigid grains that store elastic energy through intergranular mechanisms. Further, the results reveal non-standard deformation mechanisms that underlie the chiral granular string subjected to extension. These mechanisms include grain rotations that are coherent as opposed to gear-like grain rotation. More notably, grain transverse displacements are observed that are controlled by the behavior of the grain interconnections.