String Figures also called Cats Cradle are figures created by wrapping a long string around the fingers A traditional Japanese childrens game but not in this animestyle world Ayaka is a string figure ...

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 ...