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Simple diamond figures can be found in the cultures of indigenous peoples all over the world. The history of the Osage Nation goes back 1,000 years and has generally been located around the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers. Caroline Furness Jayne named this two diamond figure for the Osage child who taught it to her at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904.
A simple magic trick that will entertain your friends. Can you explain how it works?
You can wear your string on your wrist or tie it in a bow and put it in a pocket. NEVER wear your string around your neck
A “loom” is the starting place for a string figure.
Learn the two different "looms" to start your string figures. You will use them later to create interesting variations.
The simplest of the Osage diamond figures. Learn it for yourself, then teach a friend.
Add a twist to Two Diamonds to get One Diamond. Can you explain what happened?
Add a different twist to Two Diamonds to get Three Diamonds. Why does the opposite move get different results>
More twists, more diamonds. Practice and study these four string figures until you can get them perfect every time.
A different way to make 4 diamonds but if you look closely, they are not the same at all.
Add two diamonds to any string figure before you extend it. Murphy named htis in honor of the Rastafarian man who taught it to him.
Murphy invented the Power Lift to improve the presentation of figures that tend collapse. it works with any figure that is presented with two loops on each hand and is the most effective when the string is thin and slippery. With practice, you will use it often.
Make any String Figure more impressive by adding two diamonds before you do the figure. Now you can make 5, 6, 7 and 8 Diamonds.
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