Hi, When I saw the name of the string figure of this month, I thought I knew this figure. But not exactly. In BISFA 4, 1997, you have "Shooting star...
Hello to everyone... It's been inspiring to read the string figure banter, to work on new string figures in the video collection, and to try stretching my...
Hello All, Ten Men Wheel: Ten Men come out 11 http://home.p07.itscom.net/nenemei/v5/sf5_ten_men_wheel.png Variation 5 of Ten Men. Ten Men Stars: Ten Men come...
Hello, I'm member since 1999. And Mark asked me to become associate editor last year. This association is very important for me. In the beginning, I didn't...
Thank you for your shared enthusiasm for the ISFA. I have often been amazed at your prolific contributions and am impressed with your growning command of the...
Hi, I taught string figures to children only because adults think that is only a game for kids. I wish I'll met other people that will understand, why the...
As I've found myself wanting to pester mizz with more and more questions relating to his intriguing code, I decided it made less and less sense to post those...
There is a photo website that has string figure photos, some of which are new to me. http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c183/fadenspiele/Figuren/ In particular,...
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... Well, Fadenspiele means 'string figures' in german, so presumably it is a category label rather than an author.... scott swanson...
Hello All, Ten Men Big Cup: Ten Men come out 13 http://home.p07.itscom.net/nenemei/v5/sf5_ten_men_bigcup.png Variation 7 of Ten Men. Ten Men Old House: Ten Men...
Ah, I very much like "Ten Men Old House"! The figure, if not the method of construction, is very reminiscent of the "legs of the curlew" figures from the Nauru...
Figures de ficelles et anthropologie (string figures and anthropology) in a special event "Fête de la Science" in France If you are in Paris on the 19th of...
Hi all, You can view Olympic Flag String Game at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXF2q_tyQzM In this 90 second video I suggest new meanings for the five circles...
Hello All, Ten Men Big Beans: Ten Men come out 15 http://home.p07.itscom.net/nenemei/v5/sf5_ten_men_bigbeans.png Variation 9 of Ten Men. Ten Men Deep Valley:...
In playing around with "A Crab" (http://www.stringfigures.info/cfj/crab.html), I've discovered that the latter half of the steps described by CFJ are...
Every year, around Saint Andrew's day, there's a games fair in a Catalan Town called Tona. The last few years I've been there teaching string games. A picture...
Hello Jamis, Your discovery, a crab short cut is very clever method of on many try and errors. If your cfj2mizz notation is correct, your short cut is correct...
Mizz, Thanks for pointing out the ambiguity relating to the thumb rotation. In (re)reading the CFJ description, I'm pretty certain that 1ba is the movement ...
Hi, http://geekfeminism.org/2009/09/27/open-thread-first-fun-with-string/ Yesterday, i saw two boys in front of me. The first tried to teach the second a...
Hello Jamis and all, That you found is the core of short cut analysis. "3,1" followed by "1T3" is "1ba". Claw string details are cleared by this. Your short...
Every couple of years I'm invited to the `Beaver Scouts Christingle Party '. I'm required to entertain 100 6-8 year olds for one hour. So, what do I do? Read...
... This is great! In just a few minutes of playing around I found several intriguing variations on the crab, simply by varying moves in your "Well"...
100 6-8 year olds?! I have enough trouble with two. :) I'll be watching your blog with bated breath to hear how it turned out. I hope you get to take some...
Hello Jamis and all, Yes I do; Reverse engineering on A Well 0 [A Well] 1 345.6 2 3,qu 4 1 5 1,(s)3 6 2h,2ao 7 5T2h 8 1ab[2] 9 base And reconstruct back...
Hello, It's an excellent idea to choose a Newkirk's figure for the String Figure of the Month. It's the same figure as in the String figure Magazne of March...
