The Smithsonian's item is groovy looking but also rather modern in style.
I remember a marvelous toy when I was small which was a series of wire loops hinged with colored wooden beads. The wire tension inside the beads and between the loops was enough to keep them in place after one had fiddled and faddled to get interesting shapes. But that lovely thingamabob would always produce bilaterally symmetrical constructions; I don't think the chrome tangle could make any sort of symmetry.
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Date: 2011-07-14 01:44 am (UTC)I remember a marvelous toy when I was small which was a series of wire loops hinged with colored wooden beads. The wire tension inside the beads and between the loops was enough to keep them in place after one had fiddled and faddled to get interesting shapes. But that lovely thingamabob would always produce bilaterally symmetrical constructions; I don't think the chrome tangle could make any sort of symmetry.