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Fascinating String Figures (Master String Figures)

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This book have 23 STRING FIGURES. You won't find here what you know already. This book is a compilation of six String Figure Magazine issues. There are three string figures invented : "Wheelbarrow" by Carey C.K. Smith (New Zelande); "Spectacles for your nose" by Udo Engelhardt (Germany); "Andromeda Galaxy" by Felix Paturi (Germany). The others figures are: Night, Twinkling star, Seven Diamonds, Polar Bear, Fox and Whale, Turtle (a modern figure), Baby being born, Cobweb, Catching a Cockroach (a trick), Hammock, Two eyes, Little girl with pigtails, Sandsnipe, Sun, Toad and a man, Swan, dog with large ears, Erupting volcano, Sewing machine and Two islands joined by a log. There are over 500 drawings. These strings figures are some easy, some difficult. All are very interesting and the explanations are excellents.

This book, a compilation of string figures previously published in the String Figure magazine, presents the string figure enthusiast with many figures that have generally not been in other more popular publications. The directions are very clear, and information on the source as well as interesting anecdotes are included for many. The reader will have their fingers in knots of many designs at a bargain price. Highly recommended!

This book has unique designs to create and explains each movemnt step by step. The designs are creative and will keep anyone entertained for long periods of time as they try to master these string games. The only problem I found was that the various designs required different lengths of string. I ended up making my own string lengths and they work out just fine.

This book has a nice variety of figures in a good range of difficulties. The illustrations are generally quite clear. The written directions, while acceptable, are not as clear as in some other string figure books I've used. My major problem with the book is that the authors did not see fit to include written directions for some of the later figures, and they needed it. The pictures are clear when backing up the words, but cannot stand alone nearly as well. Aside from this, I liked the book.

This book have 23 STRING FIGURES. You won't find here what you know already. This book is a compilation of six String Figure Magazine issues. There are three string figures invented : "Wheelbarrow" by Carey C.K. Smith (New Zelande); "Spectacles for your nose" by Udo Engelhardt (Germany); "Andromeda Galaxy" by Felix Paturi (Germany). The others figures are: Night, Twinkling star, Seven Diamonds, Polar Bear, Fox and Whale, Turtle (a modern figure), Baby being born, Cobweb, Catching a Cockroach (a trick), Hammock, Two eyes, Little girl with pigtails, Sandsnipe, Sun, Toad and a man, Swan, dog with large ears, Erupting volcano, Sewing machine and Two islands joined by a log. There are over 500 drawings. These strings figures are some easy, some difficult. All are very interesting and the explanations are excellents.

Ce livre vous aidera pas à pas à réaliser 23 jeux de ficelle. Il y a des figures d'Hawaii (Night, Twinkling star), du Pérou (Seven Diamonds), d'Alaska (Polar Bear, Fox and Whale). Vous trouverez aussi une figure moderne du Japon (Turtle). Il y a également des figures d'Australie (Baby being born) ou de Nouvelles-Zélande (Cobweb) ou même du Pacifique (Catching a Cockroach). Ce livre vous emmenera jusqu'en Tanzanie (Hammock) ou en Afrique (Two eyes), à Tokyo (Little girl with pigtails), en Micronésie (Sandsnipe, Sun), au Canada (Toad and a man, Swan, dog with large ears (il marche!)), en Argentine (Erupting volcano), en Suisse (Sewing machine) et en Guyane (Two islands joined by a log). Le meilleur pour la fin: vous pourrez aussi réaliser 3 figures inventées: Wheelbarrow par Carey C.K. Smith (Nouvelle Zélandes), Spectacles for your nose par Udo Engelhardt (Allemagne) et Andromeda Galaxy par Felix Paturi (Allemagne)! Les explications et les illustrations sont excellentes

This book provides instructions for a collection of 23 string figures which are not generally found elsewhere as it is a compilation of figures from the International String Figure Magazine.

The figures are quite delightful, I particularly love the girl with pigtails and the Andromeda Galaxy at the end. Instructions are in line drawing and particularly towards the end there is very little in the way of verbal instruction.

The book is not for the beginner, for that I would recommend Richard Darsie's book, but there will be enough to keep any enthusiast happy for many hours.

This is really wonderful book. This is my second acquaintance with string figures. First meeting with string figures was about 10 years ago (i accidentally found two simple figures in one science magazine), and now i decided to know more about string games. Together with my 8 year old son we tried to learn more string figures, and we succeeded with it so easy. This book is perfect not only for beginners, but for advanced users too. Figures are explained clearly, and as simple as possible to do it with so complex thing as string figures.

Des figures que vous ne trouverez pas ailleurs, des figures inventées....Un vrai plaisir! Plein de diagrammes, de bonnes explications. Que demander de plus? Il a 23 jeux de ficelle.