I use them to tell stories and amaze my friends. My favorite figure is chocolate. String figures enrich my life for a variety of reasons. They are great conversation starters, especially if you don t speak the other person s language. You are in contact with the entire world through a simple loop of string.
Strings span the generation gap many times over.
You create the universe from nothing. I m intrigued by references to songs sung while weaving string figures. It was partly this mystery that started my lifelong interest in string figures. When my mother, the late Paula Collinson, made the string figure A Butterfly, she lived the metamorphosis of the larva, with such intensity and with such grace, she needed no words to describe the movements. As a child, I was also enchanted with poetry.