
Introduction to Easy Figures gets you started. Here you'll learn: Position 1, Opening A, A Hand Catch, Cup and Saucer, The Star, Fishing Spear, Dressing a Pelt, The Moth, The Mouth, Man Climbing a Tree, Sawing Wood, Framework for a Hut, The Mouse, A Thumb Catch, Batoka Gorge, Casting a Spear
More Easy Figures: A Bow, Lightning, Super Lightning, Butterfly, Siberian Hut, Siberian House, The Wink, Wink'n Blink, Crow's Feet, Fighting Headhunters, Man on a Bed, Pole Star, Darkness, Lizard Twist, Mosquito or Fly, A String Trick
Fairly Easy Figures: Twin Stars, Osage Diamonds (Jacob's Ladder), Six Diamonds, Bagobo Diamonds, Two Diamonds, King's Throne, Sunrise, A Well, Fence Around Well, A Worm, Breastbone and Ribs, Palm Tree, Super Palm Tree
Kind of Easy Figures: Apache Door, Super Apache Door, Cheating the Hangman, Little Finger, A Rabbit, Carrying Wood, Many Stars, An Owl, Another Owl, Big Star, Seven Stars, Cow's Head, Cat's Head, An Arrow
Sort of Easy Figures: Setting Sun, Sea Snake, Mystery Animal, A Lizard, Two Coyotes, Rain, Sardines
String Figures for Two: Cat's Cradle
Challenging Figures: Little Fishes, The Porker (AKA The Dancing Headless Pig), The Frog, Three Sunfish, Storm Clouds
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- For wisdom: follow The Path of the Dog
- Beginnings: First Lines from Scriptures
- Infidel Guides to Islam, Theism, Atheism, and...
- World Religion Simplified
- The Diamond Sutra: Condensed version
- The Platform Sutra of Huineng: Condensed
- The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
- The Zen Teachings of Huang Po on the One Mind
- Zen and the Art of Mindful Bus Riding
- Private Retreat: Alysion Acres
- Two Zen Stories
- 14 Mindfulness Trainings of Thich Nhat Hanh
- 14 Thoughtfulness Trainings
- Westfulness and Eastfulness
- Mindfulness Meditation Bell, Gong, Timer
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- Alysion Acres: An intentional community
- Poems to Memorize & Memorable Poems
- Mom's Favorite Poems
- Ryan's Favorite Poems
- Take the Super Post-Mensa IQ Test
- Alternative Handwriting and Shorthand Systems
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- Making the Tree of Life: Fun with phylogenetics
- Human Chow: The Website
- Fun with Dimensional Analysis
- Medication Math for the Nursing Student
- Walled-in: A poem
- Making Boxes for your Rock & Mineral Collection
- Making a Mass Balance Scale
- Ryan's 50 States Flashcards
- Adventures of MeraLee
- World Religions Simplified
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External Links
- International String Figure Association
- Learn about string figuring.
- Strings on Your Fingers
- Bibliography, Links, Resources.
- String Figures
- The Wikipedia article.
- Arctic String Figure Project
- Lots of figures here with great illustrations.
- String Figures, Mathematics, Origin
- Some original figures.
- String Figures by Brian Cox
- The Incredible String Man.
Top 10 Poems from Alysion's
Bucket List of Poems
to Read Before You Die
- 1. The Rainy Day by Henry W. Longfellow
- 2. Fire and Ice by Robert Frost
- 3. A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
- 4. The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess
- 5. If by Rudyard Kipling
- 6. To See a World by William Blake
- 7. Ten Little Limericks
- 8. First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- 9. Alone by Edgar Allan Poe
- 10. I'm nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson