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 ...

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 ...

Oklahoma storyteller David Titus tells his story in a most unusual way. He told stories to Ida Freeman Elementary students while he illustrated them with string figures Tuesday. Titus created the ...

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 ...

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.