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2368 mizz
kyoichi_miya... Send Email
Jun 4, 2010
2:17 am
Hello All, Ten Men House with Crosses: Ten Men come out 57 http://home.p07.itscom.net/nenemei/v5/sf5_ten_men_sunhousewcr.png Variation of Ten Men. Ten Men...
2369 mizz
kyoichi_miya... Send Email
Jun 12, 2010
2:19 am
Hello All, Ten Men 3 Crosses: Ten Men come out 59 http://home.p07.itscom.net/nenemei/v5/sf5_ten_men_3crosses.png Variation of Ten Men. Ten Men 3 Crosses Left:...
2370 stclaa Send Email Jun 14, 2010
12:07 pm
Thank you all very much for the help on the swedish star figure. It must indeed be a figure similar to Japanese Hoshi. Only thing is that I'm not sure about...
2371 mizz
kyoichi_miya... Send Email
Jun 22, 2010
1:47 am
Hello All, Ten Men A Snake: Ten Men come out 61 http://home.p07.itscom.net/nenemei/v5/sf5_ten_men_asnake.png Variation of Ten Men. Ten Men Slash: Ten Men come...
2372 mizz
kyoichi_miya... Send Email
Jul 3, 2010
2:39 am
Hello All, Ten Men A Snake: Ten Men come out 63 http://home.p07.itscom.net/nenemei/v5/sf5_ten_men_backslash.png Variation of Ten Men. Ten Men Slash: Ten Men...
2373 mizz
kyoichi_miya... Send Email
Jul 8, 2010
6:43 am
Hello All, Ten Men Vertical Snakes: Ten Men come out 65 http://home.p07.itscom.net/nenemei/v5/sf5_ten_men_verticalsnakes.png Variation of Ten Men. Ten Men Long...
2374 JMJRD@...
jmjrd2001 Send Email
Jul 19, 2010
4:52 pm
July 19, 2010 Hello, There are several string figure photographs appearing on the photobucket.com website authored by Fadenspiele (German for string figures)....
2375 Myriam Namolaru
ficellestring Send Email
Jul 24, 2010
2:49 pm
Hi Joe, Thank you for sharing with us this beautiful figure. On my hands, i  got a space between the two rounds. I used a long string. It looks like a monster...
2376 mizz
kyoichi_miya... Send Email
Jul 25, 2010
2:17 am
Hello All, Ten Men Long Snakes & Snakes: Ten Men come out 67 http://home.p07.itscom.net/nenemei/v5/sf5_ten_men_longsnakessnakes.png Variation of Ten Men. Ten...
2377 stclaa Send Email Jul 26, 2010
5:40 pm
By chance I came across an interesting dutch film called "Primitief Nieuw-Guinea" from 1956 (made by J.A. van der Hoeven). In this film there is a short...
2378 Myriam Namolaru
ficellestring Send Email
Jul 27, 2010
5:52 pm
Hi, Thank you Stephan for the interesting video. In the Philip's  site http://www.bubblestrings.net/string.php I saw he put a string games's video in Youtube....
2379 Jamis Buck
jamisbuck Send Email
Aug 19, 2010
11:01 pm
While playing with some Nauruan techniques, I stumbled on a "Coral" look-alike. It differs from CFJ's "Coral" in only a few crossings, and is a bit more...
2380 Myriam Namolaru
ficellestring Send Email
Aug 20, 2010
12:36 pm
Hi, Nice! I think in step 3 you can write first: "R1 moves above all the strings..." Myriam ________________________________ De : Jamis Buck...
2381 mizz
kyoichi_miya... Send Email
Aug 22, 2010
2:37 am
Hello All, I have been figuring and enjoying this a while with mizz code, thanks Jamis. And I find, getting out from the way, Another Coral in tha sea. ...
2382 Jamis Buck
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Aug 22, 2010
3:39 am
Myriam, Yes, thank-you! That is clearer. Mizz, thanks for the variation! The extra twists on the sides seem to make the figure a bit more stable, too. - Jamis ...
2383 Myriam Namolaru
ficellestring Send Email
Sep 1, 2010
5:27 pm
Hello, In the past I didn't success to make the wonderful figure "Birds of Paradise, you can find it in the last Bulletin p51 (String figures from the North...
2384 Jose Roberto Ruiz
jos_r_ruiz Send Email
Sep 3, 2010
12:13 pm
Hi I'm from Brazil and I'd like to buy de CD-ROM. I sent email to ISFA but didn't receive the answer. I need some help. How can I buy? It's possible with...
2385 Myriam Namolaru
ficellestring Send Email
Sep 6, 2010
10:04 am
Hi, In the BISFA 4 (1997), there is an interesting story "Going Fishing" A string figure story by Brian Cox. P 15, figures 17 and 18, Brian made a trick:...
2386 Belinda Holbrook
holbrookb Send Email
Sep 6, 2010
11:06 pm
Hi Myriam, I have the whole "Going Fishing" story in my String Stories book. Brian had never written the directions down. I wrote the directions for the knee...
2387 Myriam Namolaru
ficellestring Send Email
Sep 7, 2010
9:22 am
________________________________ De : Belinda Holbrook <bholbrook@...> À : string-figures@yahoogroups.com Envoyé le : Mar 7 septembre 2010, 2h 06min...
2388 Myriam Namolaru
ficellestring Send Email
Sep 7, 2010
9:28 am
Hi, I'm sorry, but the first letter was send by mistake. Thank you very much Belinda. I have your wonderful book, but I forgot this story is inside. It's good...
2389 Belinda Holbrook
holbrookb Send Email
Sep 7, 2010
12:29 pm
No, I don't see that the video is on the internet. When I was putting together my book Brian sent me a video. Some of the figures in there were his own so I...
2390 Mandolajoe@... Send Email Sep 12, 2010
1:13 pm
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2391 Myriam Namolaru
ficellestring Send Email
Sep 18, 2010
11:56 am
Hi, I make again the figure "A Spider" (Magazine December 2007). The upper half of the spider looks like a half life saver. Then I decide to do the lower half...
2392 Jamis Buck
jamisbuck Send Email
Sep 22, 2010
4:07 am
A former coworker taught me an exceedingly simple figure I'd never seen named before (though I'd done the figure idly myself, never seeing it as a finished...
2393 mizz
kyoichi_miya... Send Email
Sep 22, 2010
5:36 am
Nice! One of The Simplest 3D figure, Jamis. 0 base 1 5.6, 5a&2b 2 move 5b to 5.6a position (inside) 3 1.6, 1b&2a 4 move 1a to 1.6b position (inside) 5 SPR &...
2394 Jamis Buck
jamisbuck Send Email
Sep 22, 2010
5:50 pm
Nice, Mizz! I was uncertain how to denote steps 2 and 4; your solution is as practical as it is elegant. :) - Jamis ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
2395 mizz
kyoichi_miya... Send Email
Sep 23, 2010
2:23 am
Thanks for your The Sled; Jamis, Here is a variation of the sled, with refined code. The Sled New Model A 0 palace 0 1 5.6, 5a&2b 2 move 5.6b (=5b old) to 5.6a...
2396 altozwei Send Email Sep 24, 2010
2:14 pm
Greetings! I am new to the community and am looking for some very basic information. Are there certain types of string preferred for string figures? Are...
2397 Jamis Buck
jamisbuck Send Email
Sep 24, 2010
2:20 pm
Welcome! My favorite "general-purpose" string is a 1.5mm nylon chinese knotting cord that I purchased online...I can't remember exactly where, but if you're ...
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