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Cordão da vida..
... Você ja parou pra pensar qual o real significado da vida?
Dê valor nas coisas simples de sua vida, como um passeio no parque por exemplo,
coisas simples que não possuem rótulos nem embalagens, será que não seria bom aprendermos a dar valor nas pessoas que a gente tem, e não no que elas tem??
"Viva, pois a vida passa vuando..."
E lembre-se: O passado acabou, o mundo é um bom lugar, e vai dar tudo certo!
Start by placing a sword in the shed and turning it on its side to keep the shed open.
Pass the heddle string through the open shed from right to left.
This book belonged to my Dad. It sits on one of our bookshelves and periodically I remember it and take it out to have a look at it. Dad bought it on the 2nd March 1934. I know this because he always wrote his name in his books along with the date. He will have been in Cambridge so very probably he bought it at Heffer's Bookshop, the same people who published it. Inside the book is the original green string that it came with. I've never removed the string and it looks like Dad never it took it out. But may be he did. He certainly read the book as on a couple of pages I have found that he has marked the text. The book is a lecture that W W Rouse Ball gave at the Royal Institution in London in 1920. It starts -
"I have chosen as the subject for this Lecture String Figures, which I present to you as a world-wide amusement of primitive man, and as being in themselves interesting to most people."
It then goes on for nearly 22 full pages (with some illustrations). At the end he introduces Mrs Rishbeth whose "adventurous travels among aboriginees are well known". Mrs Rishbeth then showed 14 examples of string figures. The book goes on to give instructions on 30 string figures.
W W Rouse Ball was an eminent mathematician at Trinity College, Cambridge, though not at the same time as Dad was a student in Cambridge as Rouse Ball died in 1925.
Mrs Kathleen Haddon Rishbeth (1881 - 1961) was quite an academic in her own right beginning in zoology and then turning to anthropology. She was co-author of the book "The World's Peoples and How They Live", and also wrote extensively about string figures. Such titles as "Artists in String: String Figures: Their Regional Distribution and Social Significance ". She was the daughter of the Cambridge academic Professor Alfred Cort Haddon.
Posting this from work as we still have no home internet access. I'll catch up with your 'streams as soon as connectivity is restored. Have a great Monday, folks!
Canon EF 100mm f/2
[ 0.01 sec (1/100) | f/2.0 | ISO 400 ]
Original inspiration: www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sequin/SCULPTS/CHS_miniSculpts/Ribbe...
He used a 3D nylon sintering printer. I figured it should be able to be made by hand.
My mistake was kerfing the sticks. I did it so that I could have slots to put the strings in. Unfortunately this a) allowed the sticks to bend more then they would've otherwise, b) made it so that the strings were "split." Each colour essentially flows down two "plains" instead of one. Oh well.
You know that thing where I get bored standing at the till and I start looking for stuff to do? I found stuff ...
It involved string and glue which led to a game of bondage with the till keys. It was messy. It was fun.
One more for Judy!
Made for Judy {QUILTING newBEEs} using the String Quilt Block tutorial from Film in the Fridge!
You know that thing where I get bored standing at the till and I start looking for stuff to do? I found stuff ...
It involved string and glue which led to a game of bondage with the till keys. It was messy. It was fun.
The red balloon one is not yet finished ... it seems to work better if the glue dries a bit between layers of string.