http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/ The string-figure mailing list is sponsored by the International String Figure Association (http://www.isfa.org/isfa.htm) for t Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:17:12 GMT okteller@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2774 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2774 I tell the kids that there are two rules about the strings.#1 Don't wear the string around your neck. I demonstrate that if the string is doubled and around Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:37:06 GMT John Kean http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2773 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2773 Hi all, Thanks for the tips in this thread. I have just started teaching string figs at my kids' primary school too and have created a sensation. Even though I Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:04:24 GMT okteller@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2772 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2772 Dave, Belinda has covered all the basics. good for you. You will have lots of fun with the kids. I challange the kids by saying that I bet that by tomorrow at Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:54:46 GMT Dave Chandler http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2771 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2771 Hi Belinda, Thanks so much for taking the time to send me such a lengthy response! That was very thoughtful of you and I really appreciate it. Seriously, Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:41:31 GMT Belinda Holbrook http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2770 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2770 That's a good age to teach. Some 5-year-olds can do string figures but not all of them. I also teach origami to groups of children which I've said is easier Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:11:53 GMT Bonnie Abraham http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2769 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2769 One tip: they will all learn at different rates. Use the ones who pick it up quickly (usually the older ones, but not always) to help show the others. Don't Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:58:34 GMT Dave Chandler http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2768 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2768 Sun, 16 Jun 2013 02:38:54 GMT mizz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2767 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2767 Hello All, Six Strings: Capital Figure 13 http://home.p07.itscom.net/nenemei/v8/sf8_cp_sixstrings.png Capital Opening gives us simple out 6. Four Strings: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 05:04:41 GMT nparker@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2766 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2766 Mark Sherman wrote, ... AHA! That was the missing piece. Knowing that, I'm now able to do the figure. It never would have occurred to me to rotate my whole Fri, 07 Jun 2013 14:58:03 GMT isfa http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2765 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2765 Clarification: In step 2 below, R2n is better described as ???the string running from L1 to R2??? (because near and far depend on whether the right palm is Fri, 07 Jun 2013 13:51:28 GMT isfa http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2764 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2764 Below are the translated instructions from BISFA 10: MR18 1. Loop on L1 and L2. R hand grasps both strings of the hanging loop near L hand. R2, from above, Fri, 07 Jun 2013 06:52:31 GMT nparker@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2763 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2763 Mark Sherman wrote, ... Ahh...I'd begun to suspect that illustrations might be switched, when I found an alteration of 18 that almost (but not quite) produced Fri, 07 Jun 2013 03:15:47 GMT isfa http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2762 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2762 Neil, I share your frustration concerning M-R 18 and 18???. I dealt with this issue in editing Saladin D???Anglure???s article in BISFA 10 (2003), where I Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:22:00 GMT nparker@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2761 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2761 I've worked my way through Mary-Rousselière's "Les Jeux de Ficelle des Arviligjuarmiut", and I've succeeded in making all but two of the figures. Has anybody Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:36:05 GMT mizz http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2760 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/string-figures/message/2760 Hello All, 16 Men in the Mine: Capital Figure 11 http://home.p07.itscom.net/nenemei/v8/sf8_cp_16meninthemine.png Increased Members are found in the Mine. Sun