Manipulations Of The Circle: An Introduction To Traditional Closed-Loop String Figures

摘要

Manual dexterity games using pliable loops of string have been recorded byethnographers worldwide and in all climate zones. Be it fibrous cord, silk twineor leather thong - the medium is astonishingly simple: an endless sling (intopological terms a circle) obtained by knotting, splicing or tying together theends of a two meter string