New research suggests that the making of string figures, a globally documented practice, may point to shared cultural heritage stretching back millennia. The research offers a new way to investigate ...

Cool and Simple Figures out of Coins Without Glue In today's video I want to show what you can build from coins! All you need ...

James Inoli Murphy once used string figures while teaching high school. Now he’s doing workshops for an exhibition for the Beat polymath (and string-art enthusiast) Harry Smith.

KATHLEEN HADDON (Mrs. O. H. T. Rishbeth), unquestionably our foremost expert in the study of the string-figure, has published a selection of these ingenious diversions for the use of beginners ...

How the simple Christmas String tradition brought joy to a Dallas orphanage In a custom dating to the early 1900s, children at the Buckner Orphans Home would get gifts wrapped in clothing and ...