Attribution Strings: Reusing Diagrams and Data

Diagrams drawn by Fold, Knot & Bind and the CSV data files beside its articles may be reused under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC BY 4.0). This page gives the attribution string to copy and explains what it covers and what it does not.

Diagrams drawn by this site

These include knot diagrams and side-by-side comparisons, pop-up frame sequences and nets, crease patterns, loop and stitch schematics, binding cross-sections, charts and timelines. Credit them with this string:

"{title}" by Fold, Knot & Bind — {url} — licensed under CC BY 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Replace {title} with the diagram's title and {url} with the full address of the page where it appears. Each diagram's credit line on the site already has both filled in. If you change a diagram, say so in the credit.

A link back to the page is the expected way to credit and is welcome, but CC BY does not make a link a condition of reuse. One request goes beyond the license: keep the diagram's checking note with it, such as "paper thickness not modeled", so the limit travels with the picture.

When a diagram is drawn over someone else's image, CC BY covers only the layer drawn by this site. The underlying image keeps its own license and credit, given on a separate line that begins "Underlying image:". When the underlying image is licensed CC BY-SA, the combined image is released under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Data files

The CSV files are released under CC BY 4.0 too, credited with the same string, using the file name as the title. They hold facts and values computed by the site. CC BY covers the selection and arrangement of the data, not any rights in the sources behind it, so every row names its own source. Keep the qualifier column with the values it limits. When a figure is drawn from a data file, its credit line names that file after "Data:".

Illustrations

Images labeled Illustration are generated. Each one carries this notice, which should stay with the image:

"Illustration: Fold, Knot & Bind. Generated schematic illustration — not a photograph or historical record. Reuse: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), to the extent Fold, Knot & Bind holds rights in this image."

Whatever rights the site holds in a generated image are offered under CC BY 4.0; the notice makes no claim that such rights exist. A reused illustration keeps its label and is never presented as a photograph, a museum object or a historical print.

Photographs and plates from other sources

Photographs and plates from collections and old books are used under their own terms, and each has a credit line beside it. They fall into four groups: public domain, with the basis written out for each jurisdiction; CC0 or the Public Domain Mark; CC BY; and CC BY-SA, which appears only in the body of a page. Licenses that bar commercial use or changes are not used. To reuse one of these images, follow its own license and credit its creator and source as given, not Fold, Knot & Bind.

Fonts

Headings are set in Literata, body text in Archivo and data in Victor Mono. All three are released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1: https://openfontlicense.org/.

Citing a page

Each article ends with a Cite this page block. It gives the site name, the title, the date of publication, the date of the last substantive revision and the page address, and the reader's browser fills in the access date. The site does not issue DOIs. How diagrams and facts are checked before they appear is set out on Which layer was checked.