LLX > Neil Parker > String Figures > Jayne
This method is my own reconstruction, based on [Davidson 1941]'s figure XLV, and slightly modified.
1. Navajo Opening.
2. Exchange index loops, passing right loop through left. (This move should leave the far index strings hooked around each other in the middle. If it doesn't, you probably made the small loop in the Navajo opening in the wrong direction.)
3. Repeat step 2.
4. Insert thumbs into index loops from above, and return with far index strings.
5. Pass little fingers over near index strings, and pick up far thumb strings (not the palmar strings) from below.
6. Release index loops. (You may need to push them off with the help of other fingers.)
7. Insert index fingers into thumb loops from below, and pick up far thumb strings (not the palmar strings).
9. The figure should now have a large double-string "W" shape in the middle. With the teeth, grab the two strings of the top central point of the "W," at the point where they loop over the middle of the straight near index string, and pull up.
10. Release thumb and index loops, but do not draw tight. Insert thumbs into little finger loops from below, and twist them a full twist away from you, picking up far little finger strings. Release little fingers.
11. Transfer right thumb loop to left little finger.
12. You now have a figure similar to Scissors, held on the left hand and the teeth, with the right hand free. Pass the right index and middle finger, from below, up between the two central strings of the "scissor blades," near the mouth. Then move them toward the left hand, over the string that crosses from the left near thumb string to the left far little finger string, and insert the right middle finger under the diagonal string that crosses just the left thumb loop, and the right index under the diagonal string that crosses just the left little finger loop. Hook these strings toward you and down, back between the "scissor blades," ending with the palm of the right hand facing you under the mouth loops.
13. Release loops held by the teeth, and transfer the right index and middle finger loops to the teeth (being careful not to twist them - the former index loop should be held to the right of the former middle finger loop).
14. Transfer left little finger loop to right thumb.
15. Insert little fingers into thumb loops from below, and return with far thumb strings.
16. Pick up right mouth loop with right thumb and index, and left mouth loop with left thumb and index, releasing the teeth. Let these loops slip down onto the indexes.
17. Pass thumbs under index loops, pick up far index strings, and return under near index strings.
18. Release index loops.
19. Insert indexes into thumb loops from below, and return with far thumb strings (not the palmar strings).
20. Caroline extension.
If steps 2 and 3 are omitted from this figure, the result closely resembles [Jayne 1906]'s figure "Two Chiefs," but with slightly different string crossings. A figure very similar to this figure, but with slightly different string crossings, can be produced by making "Two Chiefs," but at the beginning, crossing the string by giving it three half-twists instead of just one.
If step 3 is omitted from this figure (keeping step 2), the result is Two White Cranes.
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