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"Opening A", seen from below "Two Diamonds" Heraklas' "Plinthios Brokhos" made in a doubled cord.Resembles "A Hole in the Tree" with different crossings. "Cradle", the first (and opening) position of Cat's cradle "Soldier's Bed" from Cat's cradle "Candles" from Cat's cradle "Diamonds" from Cat's cradle "Cat's Eye" from Cat's cradle "Fish in a Dish" from Cat's cradle "Grandfather Clock" from ...
Camilla Gryski, Cat's Cradle, Owl's Eyes, 1987, New York: William Morrow & Co Library A book for beginners. Many stars and more string games, New York: William Morrow & Co Library 1985, ISBN 0-688-05792-6; A book for beginners. Super string games, New York: William Morrow & Co Library 1996, ISBN 0-688-15040-3; A book for advanced
Chinese jump rope combines the skills of hopscotch with some of the patterns from the hand-and-string game cat's cradle. The game began in 7th-century China. In the 1960s, children in the Western hemisphere adapted the game. German-speaking children call Chinese jump rope gummitwist and British children call it elastics. The game is typically ...
Want to learn how to teach a cat a trick? Here are three easy ones to try at home. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us ...
A series of tricks in which the diabolo is turned vertical. Many tricks normally done outside of vertical can also be done in vertical. Integral: Any trick in which at least one stick is released while the string is held. Star Cradle: The strings are twisted into a star-shaped pattern.
Caroline Augusta Jayne (née Furness; July 3, 1873 – June 23, 1909) was an American ethnologist who published the first book on string figures in 1906 titled String Figures: A Study of Cat's Cradle in Many Lands.
The loop is laid out in a twist so that it forms a circle with an X in it, similar to a cat's cradle or infinity symbol. The mark picks one side of the X or the other as the side to which the loop will hold fast when pulled from the other side. Unfortunately for the mark, the loop can be laid out in multiple ways.
In mathematics and physics, the plate trick, also known as Dirac's string trick (after Paul Dirac, who introduced and popularized it), [1] [2] the belt trick, or the Balinese cup trick (it appears in the Balinese candle dance), is any of several demonstrations of the idea that rotating an object with strings attached to it by 360 degrees does not return the system to its original state, while ...