A collaborative study between the University of Helsinki, Aarhus University, the National Museum of Denmark and Seattle University examined the cognitive, cultural and historical significance of ...

In 1979, the artist James Inoli Murphy tried out the idea of using string figures—those cat’s-cradle games of loops and knots—to teach math to recalcitrant students. “It is a pleasure, it is an active ...

This is a story of a design project that wanders: starting from a motivation to explore fiber-arts for feminist retaliation and culminating in the design and development of a novel soft sensor.

MRS. RISHBETH has long been known as a zealous collector and student of the string games known popularly as ‘cat's cradle’. In this volume she justifies a study which, to the Philistine, may seem ...

String figures, by W. W. R. Ball.--Methods and theories for the solution of problems of geometrical construction, by J. Petersen.--Non-Euclidean plane geometry and trigonometry, by H. S. Caŕslaw.--A ...

"An unabridged republication of the work first published ... in 1906 under the former title: String figures." siris_sil_908494 ...

THIS book is a second and enlarged edition, of which we have already noticed the first issue (NATURE, vol. 106, p. 640). The subject is comparatively new, though one variety, the cat's cradle, has a ...