So what are your favorite string figures? Here's a list to start with. Add any of your favorites (at the end) not listed below, and then vote for your top ten...
Hello, everybody. Do you know the free software "Winknot"? Mr. Hamada made it. You can download from the site: http://www.megaegg.ne.jp/~hamada/products/ This...
So what are your favorite string figures? Here's a list to start with. Add any of your favorites not listed (by some incomprehensible oversight), and then vote...
Hi Myriam, I see your drawing of Fishing Rod on http://www.multimania.com/myriamn/fishingrod.html I know I got it completely. Thank you for your post. It is a...
Hi Quentin, and all, I enjoyed some of Quentin's figures. Treasury world it is. http://www.stringfigures.tk/ I admit your inventions, because you get into the...
While a bit early in the voting, here's the Top 10 so far. More votes are needed to come up with a meaningful ranking, so keep'm coming. Many Stars - Jayne ...
Hi Eric, I tried to order my favorites, but it is difficult, so the result is quite relative... ******* My TEN favorites ******* 1. Drum - Navajo 2. Binary...
Hi all, I put on the group, in the INDEXES folder (FILES section), the indexes I recently updated. Hi Will, May you delete the old indexes that are NOT in the...
Would the settlers of the Midwest United States have been familiar with string games (at least Cats' Cradle) in 1854? I know that Jayne's book wasn't published...
Hello! I got some very interesting hints regarding string figure exhibitions and
first of all, want to return many thanks for your help! Our next meeting with...
Hi Quentin, Your 2 pointings, remove Lower 1 loop (step J) and Release 1 at final extension (step T), are last critical break through key for Rod. I have got...
Hello, I can´t success to make the figure. Perhaps can you help me. Thanks, Myriam Fishing-rod COLLECTED BY H.C. et H.E. MAUDE (String figures from the...
Hi Myriam, Hi Joseph D'Antoni, Fishing-rod, Maude's Gilbert Island figure, Te Kai-n-roa, I am not sure of the genuine figure but I have got fishing harpoon,...
Hi all, I tried 4 final extensions with mizz coding, and compared them. (1) Caroline Extension (2) Short Caroline Extension (3) Frame work (4) Basic Extension ...
I ordered the String Figures of Nauru book a little more than a month ago from the pacificstudies.org website, paying by credit card. It is being sent by ...
Hi Will, Hi Jean-Christophe, Hi all, I am very happy with your comment that code is useful if terms reductive. Yes it short. Thank you for your simple...
Jean-Christophe, Thanks for the correction. #10 should read: R1, under R2 loop, picks up R5n and then removes R2 from below. One problem with the shorthand...
Hi Elizabeth, On MESSAGE 884, you described another way to do Witch's Broom. I think you have to do step #2 twice - to get the figure correctly. Hi Will, On...
Mizz, I've enjoyed your figures. Thanks for your explanation of the kick moves. The pictures were a big help. It seems that there are some simpler alternative...
My Junior Girl Scout troop will be studying Belgium. I was wondering if there are any string figures "native" to Belgium. Thank you for your time. Julianne...
Hello! Does anybody know if there's been any kind of string-figure exhibitions in
the world? The "Übersee Museum" (Oversea-Museum?) in Bremen (Germany) plans...
A Happy New Year 2004, All, Hi Belinda Holbrook, what you saw at 16 is, we call it A house in Bamboo Thicket, or A Sparrow's house in clump of bamboo. And when...
Hi Bob Beer, I'm enjoying your subject. Hi Belinda, Hi Rebekah, more brooms. Hi Will, Joe and Jean-Christophe, code explanations. I uploaded 19 photos to our...
The Destę Hirū figure is interesting. It is related to the Tallow Dips figure described on page 248 of Jayne. She says that it was well known in Great...
My site, WWW Collection of Favorite String Figures, is moving from http://personal.riverusers.com/~busybee/string.htm (which still exists but will be...
Hi, Y'all, Quentin, I haven't sat down yet and worked through your figures, but we're neighbors; I'm in Chapel Hill, looking forward to trying out what's on...
