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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...