Les Jeux de Ficelle Enchantés

HOUSE

  • Edd's House

     

    House
     
     

    Invented by
    EDD STERCHI
    (WAKAHANA)
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     

    1. Opening A.
     
     

    2. Then 1 pass above 2
    and pick up 5n.
     
     

    3. Now 345 hook down 2
    the palmar string and 1f.
     
     

    4.Then 1 and 2 pass toward you
    above upper 1n
    below 1n transverse.
    Straighten 345.
     
     

    You have a loop on 1
    two on 2
    and one on 5
     
     

    5. Release 1
    Don't extend
     
     

    6. Then 1 enter from above into
    its former loop
    pass below 2²
    and pick up 5l
    through its own loop.
     
     
     
     

    Maisonsterchi

    7. Release 5.
    Navaho 2.
    Extend.


     

  • The house flying

     

    THE HOUSE
    FLYING

    (Te Bata)

    COLLECTED BY
             H. C. ET H. E.
    MAUDE
    (String Figures from
    Gilbert Islands)













     

        A. Put a bit of the loop in the
             mouth.

            The R hand, over the
             mouth´s  R string , picks up
             the mouth´s  L string , on
             the R wrist´s back.

        B. The L hand, passes
             between the body and
             the mouth´s
             R string, and picks up it
             from below on its back.

        C. You have a big loop
             around the wrists and a
             little, hold by the mouth.

             It´s the mouth´s opening.

             5, from above, removes the
             mouth´s loop.

         D. The mouth* passes above
              the Rn string´s wrist,
              below R5 and bites the Rf
              string´s wrist.
              Release the string´s wrist.

         E. R1 removes, from above,
              the mouth´s loop.

              You have a loop on 1 and
              one on 5.

              Do the steps  D. and E.
              with the L hand.

         F. 1 picks up 5n.

         G. Caroline Extension.

    Maisonvolante



     

           * One can use the opposite
               hand´s 1 and 2.
     
     

  • Monocanthus´s house

     

    Monocanthus´s
    house

    COLLECTED BY
    A.C. HADDON
    CAT´S CRADLE FROM MANY LANDS
    BY KATHLEEN HADDON
    Longmans, Green and Co.
    1911)












     

        A. Opening A.

        B. 2 enter from above into 5.
             2 pass below his own
             strings and straighten.
             Release 5.

        C. 5 hook down 2f².
             You have the
             Ti meta Opening.
     

        D. R4 enters, "from below",
             into R5² and removes,
             from below, R1.

        E. R1, enters away from you,
             into the upper triangle of
             the center of the figure.
             R1 pushes down the
             oblique string and picks
            up the second oblique
             string.
     

        F. Release R4.
             R4 removes from below R1.
             R1 removes from above R4.

        G. R1 picks up the
             R palm´s strings.
             Release 5.

        H. R5 removes from below R1².

          I. R1 picks up the upper R2
             (R2-L2 string).
             Release R2².

        End of
    Nageg Opening









     

        J. Release L1. Don't extend
             To the left of the hanging
             loop, L1 pushes down the
             oblique string,
             No transverse D2
             up to below
             the two transverse strings.

             L3 removes from above L1.
             L1 over the double strings
             removes from below L3.
     
     
     

    Requinpointu

    You have the
    monocanthus









     

         K. Now put your
              monocanthus on the table.
              And pick up another loop.
              Make the steps  A.-I.
              (Nageg Opening),
              with both hands.
          The  figure is, then,
              symetric.

         L. 2 removes from above 1.
              Extend.
     
     
     

    Maisonparticuliere

    You have
    monocanthus´s house







     

               Do you think your
               Monocanthus is brave
               enough, to enter into the
               both monocanthus´s
               house?