Diagrams and text illustrate the steps involved in creating over one hundred string figures while providing information on their origin and cultural background

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"

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.

In today's high tech world, people have completely forgotten how to make The Cup and Saucer, The Witch's Broom, and Jacob's Ladder. Thank goodness for Cat's Cradle. This book's simple instructions and ultra-clear instructional art are foolproof.

Play 40 terrific games with only one piece of string!

Over 150 tricks, escapes, dissolving loops; 3- and 4-strand braiding; string figures from around the world. 140 illustrations.