Fascinating String Figures
Title | Fascinating String Figures PDF eBook |
Author | International String Figure Association |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9780486404004 |
Collects instructions drawn from the pages of String Figure Magazine explaining how to create such string "sculptures" as "Twinkling star," "Polar Bear," "Erupting volcano," and "Andromeda galaxy"
String Figures and How to Make Them
Title | String Figures and How to Make Them PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline F. Jayne |
Publisher | Ravenio Books |
Pages | 626 |
Release | |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN |
This book may be regarded as an introduction to the study of String Figures—games which are widespread among primitive peoples, and played by weaving on the hands a single loop of string in order to produce intricate patterns supposed to represent certain familiar objects. I have gathered together the facts already known concerning these games, and, adding my own studies and the unpublished records of other observers, I have here described and illustrated the methods whereby about one hundred string figures are made. My purpose has been twofold: to interest other students in the subject, in order that additional figures and their methods may be collected among various tribes and races; and to reach a still larger public, that more people may share in the fascinations of the games themselves. The games are certainly fascinating, appealing as they do to young and to old, and to those debarred from all pastimes demanding physical exertion. Moreover, they are not unduly difficult; and, capable as they are of infinite variations, their charm ought to be inexhaustible.
String Figures and how to Make Them
Title | String Figures and how to Make Them PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline F. Jayne |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 1962-01-01 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9780486201528 |
Diagrams and text illustrate the steps involved in creating over one hundred string figures while providing information on their origin and cultural background
String Games
Title | String Games PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Darsie |
Publisher | Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9781402727870 |
Provides directions, illustrated with photographs, for making many different string figures-- from the fairly simple Jacob's Ladder to more complex Mt. Fuji-- along with information about their history and meaning.
String Figures
Title | String Figures PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Furness Jayne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 1906 |
Genre | String figures |
ISBN |
Cat's Cradle, Owl's Eyes
Title | Cat's Cradle, Owl's Eyes PDF eBook |
Author | Camilla Gryski |
Publisher | |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | String figures |
ISBN | 9780590254861 |
Play 40 terrific games with only one piece of string!
String Figures and How to Make Them
Title | String Figures and How to Make Them PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline (Furness) Jayne |
Publisher | |
Pages | 450 |
Release | 2013-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781258918958 |
This is a new release of the original 1962 edition.