String Figures

How to do Cat's Cradle - Step by step instructions with photographs.
www.ifyoulovetoread.com/book/chten_cats1105.htm

International String Figure Association - Background information with instructions for making traditional Inuit figures.
www.isfa.org/

Kids Guide to Easy String Figures - Descriptions, illustrations and video clips showing how to make basic figures.
www.alysion.org/figures/introkids.htm

The Mathematics and Origin of String Figures - An advanced discussion of their history and theory with instructions for making new designs by the author, Martin Probert.
website.lineone.net/~m.p/sf/menu.html

String Figure: Honu (Turtle) - Simple instructions with photographs for making a traditional turtle figure. Includes an associated chant.
www.stringfigure.com/Direct/Honu.html

String Figures - Animated instructions for making Jacob's Ladder, Walking Sticks and Two Mountains and a Stream.
www.frontiernet.net/~steve_glimpse/stringar.html

String Figures - Brian Cox, the Incredible Stringman, tells a story called "Going Fishing" illustrated with string figures. Photos and text of his performance.
www.whimsical-workshop.mb.ca/string.html