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Image:String Figures and How to Make Them.djvu - Wikimedia Commons

Possibly the first, and best-known book on string figures. (Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.) Source. Scan of the 1962 edition, ...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:String_Figures_and_How_to_Make_Them.djvu

Rainbow String Figures - Wolfram Demonstrations Project

"Rainbow String Figures" from The Wolfram Demonstrations Project. Bookmark. del.icio.us ? Technorati ? Digg ? reddit ? StumbleUpon ? Spurl ...

http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/RainbowStringFigures/

Fascinating String Figures

Clearly detailed diagrams and simple instructions for making 23 delightfully different string figures, including a turtle, an elegantly symmetrical cobweb, ...

http://store.doverpublications.com/0486404005.html

Rain Forest String Figures From Guyana

Photographs taken on a canoe trip along the upper Essequibo River in extreme southern Guyana. Some of the Wai Wai and Wapishana guides and boatmen ...

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/1414/guy.htm

Open Directory - Arts: Crafts: String Figures

International String Figure Association - The ISFA works to gather, preserve, and distribute string figure knowledge for future generations to enjoy this ...

http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Crafts/String_Figures/

String Games and String Figures

My daughter and her friends are having fantastic fun doing string games (also known as string figures) which seems to be the latest craze at school.

http://www.squidoo.com/string-games

Collection of String Figures - WorldStart Computer Tips and ...

With tons of sting figures for you to learn and try out with video clips of how to make them, you'll be tied up in this site for a while.

http://www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/153

A 3-D String Figure Display System For Animating Cat's Cradle Game ...

operated pattem of string figures. A stabilizing procedure. is in charge of the obtaining ... which uses cells for representing string figures in three- ...

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel3/4949/13628/00626169.pdf

Bulletin of the International String Figure Association

String figures are designs woven on the hands with a loop of string, and their astonishing complexity both in construction and meaning is the subject of the ...

http://museumjt.stores.yahoo.net/buofinstfias.html

How to Do String Figures - wikiHow

wikiHow article about How to Do String Figures. ... String figures are really fun to make! Long before TV, or even books, people were using string figures ...

http://www.wikihow.com/Do-String-Figures

The Survival, Origin and Mathematics of String Figures

A mathematical analysis of string figures. Theorems, examples, illustrations and conjectures on patterns created with an unknotted string.

http://website.lineone.net/~m.p/sf/menu.html

Cat's Cradle: A Book of String Figures, Klutz - Barnes & Noble

BARNES & NOBLE - Find the Cat's Cradle: A Book of String Figures by Klutz. For ages 9 to 11 years. Free 3-Day shipping on $25 orders!

http://gifts.barnesandnoble.com/Toys-games/Cats-Cradle-A-Book-of-String-Figures/e/9781878257536

String Figures

Geometry Gifts: String Figures. ... Closely related to knots, string figures and games appear in all cultures, and they are loved by everyone. ...

http://geometryalgorithms.com/gifts_string.shtml

International String Figure Association

Since 1978 members of the International String Figure Association have been working hard to gather, preserve and distribute string figure knowledge so that ...

http://www.isfa.org/

The String Figures - New Acoustic Music

The String Figures - New Acoustic Music in Tucson, Arizona.

http://www.thestringfigures.com/

The Implication of String Figures for American Indian Mathematics ...

Abstract: Suggests that the invention and construction of traditional American Indian string figures possess elements associated with mathematical thought: ...

http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/recordDetail

Strings on Your Fingers: String Figures, Tricks, Catches, Designs ...

Michael P. Garofalo does presentations on string figures art, and performances of string figures, catches, and tricks in Northern California and Southern ...

http://www.gardendigest.com/string/index.htm

This+That - String Figures

Learn to make string figures - Animated instructions.

http://www.frontiernet.net/~steve_glimpse/stringar.html

String Figures - UEN

String figures are designs that you weave on your fingers with a long loop ... In some cultures, storytellers used string figures to illustrate their tales. ...

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi

Easter Island/Rapa Nui

I knew that the Easter Islanders had some knowledge of string figures from two ... At least two things about Rapanui string figures have become very clear ...

http://www.sergeking.com/Rapanui/rapa12.html