Hello! I noticed there was some recent action on this mailing list, so, assured that there are some listeners, I thought I'd post an observation. Only that if...
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okteller@...
Feb 6, 2000 4:05 am
Dear Belinda and all, You should have seen Mark, Will and his wife Lilly and I when we got the word that the article was in the NY Times. You would have...
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Mark A. Sherman
isfa@...
Feb 7, 2000 3:11 am
Mark Kirtley (a.k.a. newcomer) and all, Your four-diamonds construction is great fun. Here's a six-diamond construction which Dave Titus recently shared with...
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Will Wirt
wlwirt@...
Feb 8, 2000 12:01 am
Mark (Kirtley) and the group, Your method for forming 4 diamonds with simple crossings is ingenious. At Brillo Nuevo near the Amazon River they make similar...
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Mark Kirtley
kirtley@...
Feb 8, 1994 11:20 pm
Hello Mark, Will, and all. ... Thanks very much for your responses! Mark, your challenge for a way to make 8 Diamonds using the technique of the Oklahoman...
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Will Wirt
wlwirt@...
Feb 11, 2000 9:28 pm
I got this from Nina Mollica. If anyone lives near Reading, PA, you might want to check it out. Maybe we're missing a bet. Perhaps we should have a string...
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Will Wirt
wlwirt@...
Feb 24, 2000 12:07 am
To the Group, Earlier this month many of us were excited about the article describing string figure web sites in the New York Times. ...
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okteller@...
Feb 26, 2000 4:16 pm
Dana Scott wrote on 12/28 that if you untwist the finger and thumb loops at the end you get a smaller but pleasing figure and asked if there were any...
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Dana F. Scott
dfscott@...
Feb 27, 2000 7:06 am
Dear David, Thank you for your response. I am pleased to see that others have discovered this twist on the Apache Door hinges :-) I am still wondering, though,...
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Will Wirt
wlwirt@...
Mar 5, 2000 2:55 am
To the group, I've posted 10 more Jenness figures in the Arctic String Figure Project, numbers 91 to 100. http://www.isfa.org/arctic/jenness.com Please let me...
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佐藤 哲...
VZB13277@...
Mar 5, 2000 5:56 am
Hello, everyone!! In Japan, a new magazine will be published in this April. It is "Nikkei Network". In thet advertisement poster, a string figure is used. It...
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myriam namolaru
myriam_n@...
Mar 5, 2000 10:42 am
Dear Will, You can make frog from "osages diamonds". I know this from a book in Japanese. P.S.:The adress for Jeness is: http://www.isfa.org/arctic/jenness.htm...
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Tim Kennedy
tkennedy@...
Mar 5, 2000 8:22 pm
Thanks and a tip of the hat to Will Wirt for the 'Pair of Trousers' figures. In 1983 I tried for two weeks to make this figure (one hour a day) from the...
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myriam namolaru
myriam_n@...
Mar 5, 2000 8:41 pm
Dear all, I found the story of the "Mauis lasso" in the book of Jack London "The Cruise of the Dazzler" (1902). The story is a little different of the story...
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Mandolajoe@...
Mar 6, 2000 4:51 am
I found these, and thought you might be interested. http://www.nma.gov.au/coasting/recreation/a8_5.shtml http://streetplay.com/photos/galleries/haiti/ ...
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MAP
MAP@...
Mar 6, 2000 10:01 am
Will I'm doubtless the nth to let you know that the .com on the end of http://www.isfa.org/arctic/jenness.com should be .htm Sorry to be so quite these days...
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Will Wirt
wlwirt@...
Mar 7, 2000 1:33 am
Thanks Myriam and Martin for pointing out my error in the URL for the Jenness figures. It should have been http://www.isfa.org/arctic/jenness.htm Ted, credit...
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Will Wirt
wlwirt@...
Mar 7, 2000 2:52 pm
Sorry Tim (Ted). You are a lot skinnier. Here is a Navajo Bull Snake figure. It looks a lot like Jayne's Sea Snake but the steps are completely different. Bull...
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Udo Engelhardt
udoengel@...
Mar 14, 2000 12:34 pm
Dear Will, thanks for your snake! Here is another one, probably the best known, but I do not remember the source. It seems to be a variation of "the elk" from ...
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Julianne Huss
faeriering@...
Mar 15, 2000 2:42 pm
I have just become interested in string figures through my daughters. I am unfamiliar with the directions that use the R1, R2 descriptions. Tho they should be...
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Will Wirt
wlwirt@...
Mar 15, 2000 3:03 pm
Hi Julianne, If you look at the web page, http://www.isfa.org/arctic/n.htm, you'll find a description of the terms that most of us use. Below is an is an...
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Earl Stokes
stokes@...
Mar 15, 2000 4:39 pm
The figure called scissors may be held so that it forms a cross. The finished figure is rotated into the vertical and horizontal and the resultant 'legs' can ...
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faeriering@...
Mar 15, 2000 5:04 pm
Thank you, I will look the scissors figure up and try it out. Julianne...
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Mandolajoe@...
Mar 15, 2000 5:53 pm
For a fine cross, try "One Chief" in C.F. Jayne's book at pp. 253-259....
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okteller@...
Mar 15, 2000 10:10 pm
Julianne, I use the figure of the Apache Door for a cross. A young man in Nepal showed me that if you take one hand and spread out the thumb and little finger...
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Julie Hocking
hockingj@...
Mar 25, 2000 7:46 pm
Congratulations to all who contributed to the latest issue of String Figure Magazine. What a fun collection of figures. I was intrigued by three right away...
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Laurel Sharp
lsharp@...
Mar 28, 2000 2:02 pm
... I agree--it's a great issue. I really liked the boar's maw; nice to learn another one with the "rubber band" opening. Laurel Sharp Syracuse, NY...
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philipdnoble
philipdnoble@...
Mar 29, 2000 7:56 pm
Dera Mark, Hi there ! How are you doing Well I hope? Thanks for the latest SF magazine as good as usual. That sounds a bit odd ! Anyhow my latest news is that...
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Dean Abel
dean-abel@...
Mar 30, 2000 5:07 pm
Hello everyone. I am a new member of ISFA. I am also a mycologist (I study mushrooms). Does anyone know a string figure that looks like a mushroom? Or does...
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myriam namolaru
myriam_n@...
Mar 30, 2000 8:18 pm
Hello Dean, I saw in http://www.fishing-in-wales.co.uk/wildlife/fungi/fungigrp.htm that there is Coral Fungi (coral-like forms). In the book of Jayne you can...
