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Instructions

1. Refer to Figure 6.3a. The numbers represent the walls of the circuits. The letters are drawn at the four dots of the original seed pattern, along with the number of the circuit they are on (2A, 6B, 7C, and 3D). Notice that D is not directly under C as in the original seed pattern, but one path width to the right of its original placement to allow for an expanded center.

FIGURE 6.3A

2. Lay out the wooden stakes. With the permanent marker, write a number or letter on the tip of each one as follows:

• Fourteen stakes with 1

• One stake with 1U

• One stake with 1V

• One stake with 1W

• One stake with 1X

• One stake with 1Y

• One stake with 1Z

FIGURE 6.3B

• Twelve stakes with 2

• One stake with 2A

• Eleven stakes with 3

• One stake with 3D

• Twelve stakes with 4

• Eleven stakes with 5

• Eight stakes with 6

• One stake with 6B

• Six stakes with 7

• One stake with 7C

• Seven stakes with 8

You’ll have several stakes left over for extras as needed in the future. Separate the stakes into bundles of the same numbers to keep track of them. When you dismantle the labyrinth, you can tie them in groups for future use.

3. Tie one end of the measuring rope to the dowel, loosely enough for the rope to pivot freely. Make a mark on the rope one path width from where the rope leaves the dowel. Make seven more marks on the rope, each the width of one path.

4. Refer to Figure 6.3b for steps 4 through 9. Push the dowel into the ground where you’d like the center of the labyrinth to be, which will not be the geometrical center of the labyrinth. (Remember, the top “half” of the labyrinth is slightly larger than the bottom “half.”)

As in the tape labyrinth, you’ll create the top “half” of the labyrinth first, making half circles. Place the half circles opposite the entrance.

5. Pull the rope straight and lay it down at the bottom left of the upper half circle. Push a stake marked 8 into the ground at the first rope mark to the left of the dowel. Place stake 7 in the ground at the next mark out. Place stake 6B at the next marker moving out from center, 5 at the next mark, 4 at the next, and so on until you place 1 at the last mark on the rope.

6. Pivot the rope clockwise until it is at a right angle to the line you just created, marking a vertical axis for the half circle. Repeat the staking beginning with stake 8 at the first mark and continuing to stake 1 at the last mark on the rope.

7. Pivot the rope clockwise until it makes a straight line with your first set of markers and is at a right angle to the second set of markers. Repeat the staking process beginning with a stake 8. Place stake 7C into the ground instead of a plain 7.

Now fill in these three lines with four more lines of stakes radiating out from the center dowel.

FIGURE 6.3C

8. Lay the rope straight approximately one-third of the distance between the horizontal line of stakes to the left of center and the vertical line of stakes. Mark the line as before, beginning with stake 8 at the mark closest to the dowel. Pivot the rope another third of the distance between the horizontal and vertical line of stakes, and repeat the staking.

9. Repeat step 8 on the right half of the semicircle, making two lines of stakes each approximately one-third of the distance between the vertical line of stakes and the horizontal line of stakes to the right of center.

Compare your work to Figure 6.3b. You should now have eight concentric half circles delineated by seven lines of stakes numbered from 1 at the outside stake of each line to 8 at the innermost stake of each line. You have outlined the top half of your labyrinth.

FIGURE 6.3D

10. Refer to Figure 6.3c for steps 10 to 13. Take up your guide dowel with the measuring rope still attached. Place the dowel in the ground flush with stake 6B. Lay the rope at a right angle to the horizontal line of stakes of which 6B is