A string figure is a design formed by manipulating string on, around, and using one's fingers or sometimes between the fingers of multiple people. String...
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Cat's cradle (redirect from Cat's cradle (string game))
figure Cat's Cradle (above). After each figure, the next player manipulates that figure and removes the string figure from the hands of the previous player...
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The following is a list of string figures, various figures which can be made using a loop of string, and which occur in games such as cat's cradle. Most...
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The International String Figure Association is not-for-profit organization for the preservation, dissemination, and creation of string figures. The association...
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String is a long flexible structure made from fibers twisted together into a single strand, or from multiple such strands which are in turn twisted together...
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Pushing on a string is a figure of speech for influence that is more effective in moving things in one direction than another – you can pull, but not push...
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Polynesian constellation Heiheionakeiki which represents a child's string figure similar to a cat's cradle. Several precolonial Filipinos referred to...
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S2CID 21340612 Miller, Lawrence G. (1945), "The Earliest (?) Description of a String Figure", American Anthropologist, New Series, 47 (3): 461–462, doi:10.1525/aa...
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surface in mathematics Jacobs's ladder, the European name for a solo string figure Crepuscular rays or Jacob's Ladder, rays of sunlight that appear to...
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A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than...
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