More Tinkering

Chapter 9 Stick Solids

Construct geometric solids with toothpicks and bits of flip-flops.

Most Timorese women know how to weave several katupa designs. (See Chapter 5 to find out about the wonders of the katupa.) I know how to weave three. They took me hours to learn, and many more hours to relearn after I subsequently forgot them, again and again, as time passed and I didn’t make them on a regular basis.

Katupa are also woven in the miniature with dyed strips and hung around the house as colorful decorations. The one at the top here is ...